The last thing the NFL in Los Angeles was ever about was the fans

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28. Why are you all so down on a struggling non-profit like the NFL?

Kidding!

Yeah, now St. Louis gets to become the new Los Angeles as the vacant facility just waiting for some team to skedaddle to. But it's not limited to the NFL; the NBA is pretty good at pitting cities against one another for teams.

Cities need to wise up. When the Sonics departed Seattle, there was a lot of worry in Portland that Owner Paul Allen would want to move the Trail Blazers up I-5. Luckily (and not by any discernible design), Portland was too poor to build a new arena for the Blazers, so Billionaire Allen paid out his own money to build the Rose Garden. That sunk cost should be sufficient to keep the Blazers in town for another few years, at least. But as soon as the deal doesn't pencil out so well for him, I fully expect that Allen will be courting Seattle to build a new arena for his team.

Whether Seattle will resist Allen's blandishments in their hunger to replace the Sonics remains to be seen.