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ROSKI’S PARTNER THINKS A TEAM WILL BE IN L.A. BY 2009
Posted by Mike Florio on August 28, 2008, 12:02 p.m.
Ed Roski has promised to build a new stadium in Los Angeles if an NFL team will play in it. And now one of Roski’s business partners believes a team will be in L.A. even before the new digs are ready.
“We are going to have a team here next September,” John Semcken recently told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Semcken is Vice President of Majestic Realty. Roski is the company’s Chairman and CEO.
Semcken also said that Roski has a “handshake deal” with the Rose Bowl to allow the team to play there for two seasons, until Roski’s venue is ready. (A spokesman for the Rose Bowl Operating Company denied that a “handshake deal” has been reached; the Rose Bowl’s General Manager characterized the talks as “very preliminary.”)
And it seems to be that Roski still has designs on owning a team, which would mean that Roski would have to divest himself of any interests in casino gambling.
Here’s another twist: two teams could end up in Los Angeles.
Semcken explained that, under this scenario, one team would be owned by Roski and the other one would be a tenant.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that the league has long regarded L.A. as a two-team market, even though for the past decade-and-a-half it’s been a zero-team market. “It doesn’t mean that we will have two teams there next season, but we have looked at an option that would provide flexibility so that should we have a team there someday. The site could also accommodate another team,” McCarthy said.
Semcken said that seven teams are interested in relocating to Los Angeles, but he would name none of them. “Every owner I have talked to is interested in coming,” Semcken said. “The idea of moving here is like Nirvana to them.”
It might very well be that the first team that comes to town does so as the tenant, and that the second L.A. team is the one Roski eventually buys. And if Semcken is confident that a team is going to play in L.A. as soon as next year, the obvious candidate for a move is the Chargers, whose lease in San Diego expires after the 2008 season.
Earlier this year, Roski named the Chargers, Saints, Bills, Jaguars, Vikings, Raiders, and 49ers are possible teams that would move to Los Angeles. And since Semcken says seven teams are interested and that list of teams in the prior sentences add up to seven and if every owner they’ve spoken with is interested, it sounds like those seven teams make up the universe from which two of them eventually could be plucked.
ROSKI’S PARTNER THINKS A TEAM WILL BE IN L.A. BY 2009
Posted by Mike Florio on August 28, 2008, 12:02 p.m.
Ed Roski has promised to build a new stadium in Los Angeles if an NFL team will play in it. And now one of Roski’s business partners believes a team will be in L.A. even before the new digs are ready.
“We are going to have a team here next September,” John Semcken recently told the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Semcken is Vice President of Majestic Realty. Roski is the company’s Chairman and CEO.
Semcken also said that Roski has a “handshake deal” with the Rose Bowl to allow the team to play there for two seasons, until Roski’s venue is ready. (A spokesman for the Rose Bowl Operating Company denied that a “handshake deal” has been reached; the Rose Bowl’s General Manager characterized the talks as “very preliminary.”)
And it seems to be that Roski still has designs on owning a team, which would mean that Roski would have to divest himself of any interests in casino gambling.
Here’s another twist: two teams could end up in Los Angeles.
Semcken explained that, under this scenario, one team would be owned by Roski and the other one would be a tenant.
NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said that the league has long regarded L.A. as a two-team market, even though for the past decade-and-a-half it’s been a zero-team market. “It doesn’t mean that we will have two teams there next season, but we have looked at an option that would provide flexibility so that should we have a team there someday. The site could also accommodate another team,” McCarthy said.
Semcken said that seven teams are interested in relocating to Los Angeles, but he would name none of them. “Every owner I have talked to is interested in coming,” Semcken said. “The idea of moving here is like Nirvana to them.”
It might very well be that the first team that comes to town does so as the tenant, and that the second L.A. team is the one Roski eventually buys. And if Semcken is confident that a team is going to play in L.A. as soon as next year, the obvious candidate for a move is the Chargers, whose lease in San Diego expires after the 2008 season.
Earlier this year, Roski named the Chargers, Saints, Bills, Jaguars, Vikings, Raiders, and 49ers are possible teams that would move to Los Angeles. And since Semcken says seven teams are interested and that list of teams in the prior sentences add up to seven and if every owner they’ve spoken with is interested, it sounds like those seven teams make up the universe from which two of them eventually could be plucked.
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