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Article: Los Angeles may get 2nd chance to quarterback an NFL deal
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- Daily Breeze
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- May 8, 2002
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Los Angeles may get 2nd chance to quarterback an NFL deal
The last time the nation's second-largest city tried to woo an NFL
football team, it ended in disaster. The proposed stadium location
was a moving target, shifting from Carson to the Los Angeles Memorial
Coliseum and finally, in a last-ditch salvage effort, to a racetrack
in Inglewood.
Politicians and business leaders quarreled over each proposal and
the use of taxpayer subsidies. Inthe end, Houston swept in with a
stunning $700 millionfranchise bid -- leaving Los Angeles once again
without a team.
"We shot ourselves in the foot," said Kathy Schloessman, president