May 18 2005
The Los Angeles Saints of Anaheim?
The NFL desperately wants to put a franchise back in Los Angeles. The city of Anaheim is positioning itself to have a stadium ready for an NFL franchise by 2008.
Meanwhile, New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson is scrapping with the Louisiana state legislature about his stadium deal and is threatening to move the Saints. Los Angeles is way up on his list, though Benson may do what Bugs Bunny never could and take that left turn at Albuquerque.
It shouldn’t seem so difficult to decide between the 2nd largest media market in the country and a city in a desert whose most famous sports arena is called The Pit. When the smoke clears, I suspect the Angels and Saints will be together on the same fields, right there next to Disneyland. I’m sure some of those wacky Dominionists will see it as a sign…
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