Chapter 158: The NFL and Los Angeles

"Boss, here's a special briefing from the IMG. On a large private jet to New York, the assistant handed Sid, who was sitting in the living room chatting with Rem and the others, an electronic file.

Sid clicked on it, and couldn't help but raise his brow slightly, while he was fully preparing for "Pirates of the Caribbean", the other departments of the Fire Lion Group were not idle.

IMG's management team has officially settled in the Golden State Warriors, and head coach Larry Brown and general manager Larry Riley are both in charge of the team, and began to urgently rectify the upcoming Warriors.

But IMG's special briefing on him is not just this "old story", when IMG and Fire Lion officially entered the NBA, IMG's previous big plan, the acquisition of an NFL team, finally began to take place.

It's better that because Sid was too "generous" on the issue of NBA acquisitions, for a while, many owners of poorly managed NFL teams began to come to the door like fat sheep.

It's just that the shrewd IMG team naturally stopped these "ill-intentioned" objects and carefully screened them, but the problem is not only that, after the news that Sid was going to buy the NFL team spread in sports circles and business circles, even the city of Los Angeles came to the door.

They want Sid, who is the representative of the "Outstanding Citizen", to bring football back to Los Angeles!

God, this isn't a pretty good job.

Los Angeles, as a metropolis in North America that corresponds to New York in the west and east, has many ways to compete with New York, but not too much.

Even in the sports world, New York has the Yankees, Los Angeles has the Dodgers, and the Knicks basketball team in New York is at the bottom of the 10,000-year-old team, and it can't be compared with the Los Angeles Lakers at all, but only in football, since the Los Angeles Chargers moved out in the mid-90s, Los Angeles has been stuck in the "dilemma" of not having a football team.

One of the biggest problems and obstacles is the field, which is the stadium.

Previously, both the Los Angeles Raiders and the Los Angeles Rams used the Los Angeles Memorial Arena as their home stadium, a huge old stadium in the middle of the University of Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Memorial Arena is a historic sports venue that was first known as the main stadium for the 1932 Olympic Games. The many subsequent awas have also made it a noteworthy landmark in Los Angeles.

It is the only venue in the world to have been the home venue for two Olympic Games (1932 and 1984) and has hosted the Super Bowl final twice (1967 and 1973).

But as a legendary building that has been designated a National Historic Landmark, it can be difficult to make it the home arena of a modern football team.

With more than 90,000 seats and 175 boxes, the stadium deserves its name as the venue for major games such as the Olympics and the Super Bowl, but it is a bit too large and old to host professional rugby.

What's more, USC, as the host of the neighborhood, has always used the Los Angeles Memorial Arena as a training ground for its college sports teams, so they are actually opposed to NFL teams entering the Los Angeles Memorial Arena.

But if the stadium were to be rebuilt, whether it was site selection, funding, or troublesome hearings, it would be a headache for the Los Angeles government and any business owner who wanted to move the NFL team back to Los Angeles.

And that's not all the trouble for the NFL team to return to Los Angeles, and the NFL league has been hesitant to move the football team back to Los Angeles in addition to all these troubles.

While they also want fans in Los Angeles and Southern California to bolster the NFL's commercial value and influence, even the deep-pocketed NFL league owners feel that it is too much luxury to build new stadiums to accommodate the relocated teams.

Therefore, as early as around 2000, when the Los Angeles government and the NFL league discussed related matters, they said that if they wanted to rebuild the stadium, then they must move the two football teams back to Los Angeles and let the two teams share the new stadium, so as to minimize the waste of funds.

After all, building a new stadium is definitely a big project that costs money and takes a lot of time, and it is not uncommon for two teams to share a stadium in the sports world, the NBA's Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers share Staples Arena, and the New York Giants also share Metropolitan Stadium with the New York Jets.

But in this way, it is even more difficult to relocate the football team back to Los Angeles, because under the current situation that the NFL league does not allow new teams to be established, if you want to let the teams that have been operating steadily take the initiative to move to Los Angeles, whether it is the team itself, or the local government and people where they are located, it will be an opposing force.

Such troubles have made Los Angeles even though it has an "ancient" football history, but it has repeatedly reached an impasse in recent years, and even the president of the NFL, Goodall, has repeatedly said in front of the media that the matter of moving the team to LA needs to be considered in the long run.

NFL league president Roger Goodale said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times that he was looking forward to IMG acquiring one of the San Diego Chargers, St. Louis Rams and Oakland Raiders, and it would be even better if he could buy two. ”

"They really treat me like a fat sheep. Sid looked at the latest Los Angeles Times sports summary, and the corners of his mouth twitched.

The three teams that Roger Goodale said in the newspaper are the most likely football teams to relocate back to Los Angeles at the moment, and they are also the teams that have been stationed in Los Angeles before, especially since they were all called Los Angeles Chargers, Rams and Raiders.

But Sid's ultimate goal in buying the football team is to win the television rights of the NFL, and then take another step on the IMG sports map, and it is one thing to buy an NFL football team, and it is another to bring two teams back to Los Angeles.

What's more, today's Los Angeles sports world has long been divided between the Lakers in basketball and the Dodgers in baseball.

Sid decided to hand over the acquisition of the NFL team to IMG's professional team, but Sid specifically added a sentence in his reply to them, "Please measure our acquisition target by pure commercial and performance criteria, and don't be disturbed by other human factors."