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Somehow through a friend's son's promotion we got a deal for Sunday-only UT for only $2 / year. I figure it's worth at least that.— November 17, 2016 5:38 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Don thank you for all the excellent reporting over the years regarding stadium subsidies. You've consistently provided and refered to many data and analyses which showed how misleading many of the NFL's and Spanos' claims have been.— November 12, 2016 7:08 a.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
My personal theory about the drop in ratings is that we're just over-saturated with games. For a long time there were 3 time slots for games: Sun 10AM PT, 1PM PT and Monday night. Now there are 6 time slots for games: Thurs nite, Sun ~7AM PT (London game), 10AM PT, 1PM PT, 5:30PT, and Mon night. For a while I think the 6 timeslots / wk was working but now I wonder if it's just too much.— November 11, 2016 6:29 p.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Words I have NOT heard on sports talk radio nor seen reported: "The Spanos family has announced their intention to excercise the option to be a tenant in the Rams stadium in LA, under the excellent terms agreed to with their dear friend Stan Kroenke" It's been reported that the Spanos family wants to wait until after the season is over to announce their future plans.— November 11, 2016 8:17 a.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
Well, the guys on local sports talk shows tend to be optimists. I do think that those who want the Chargers to stay do actually have a lot to be optimistic about. I don't think Spanos wants to move in with Kroenke in LA. Instead of getting 100M from the NFL to stay in SD he would have to pay 500M to the NFL for relocation. And he would be 2nd fiddle in LA unless the Chargers can put together a Super Bowl run. I think the Chargers will try again to stay in SD but with a ballot measure that has no tax increases and a public contribution close to what Kev and Ron initially offered (350M). 350M is still a ridiculous amount of welfare money for a billionaire but it's a lot less than 1.15B.— November 11, 2016 8:06 a.m.
Citizens victors over NFL greed
The general gist I get from sports talk radio is that the Chargers are disappointed with the election results but 43% isn't a complete disaster (from their perspective). So they think there's still a chance to either try another ballot initiative (with better terms? better ad campaign?) or to try to get a better deal from Mayor Kev and Ron Roberts. Of course the Chargers and Raiders will have the Jan 2016 deadline coming up for the Chargers to make an official decision about LA. But as long as Mark Davis and Dean Spanos agree I think the other NFL owners would be happy to agree to postpone that decision. That gives time for the Raiders to try to move to Vegas and the Chargers time to try ANOTHER ballot initiative.— November 10, 2016 9:29 p.m.
Closed-door meetings with Chargers preceded mayor's stadium backing
Maybe fans can save money on beer if they donate a pint of blood before tailgating? With less blood in the system it takes less beer to get the same effect.— November 3, 2016 10:17 a.m.
Closed-door meetings with Chargers preceded mayor's stadium backing
I don't have the expertise or experience that you do but I disagree. I do think a Republican could win a major state office in the near future as long as they don't take far right stances on moral issues. Kev could win. I think one problem with the GOP in CA is that its representatives have taken a stance on controversial moral issues - marriage, abortion, guns, environmental laws - which is too far right-wing for the majority of Californians. So the candidates take themselves out of serious contention. Kev has already positioned himself as moderate on these issues. Given the recent horrible track record of the last few governors, the bar for entry is REALLY low. Rather than actually trying to run the state well, the last few governors have focussed on silly showpiece environmental projects (the environment is a very serious issue but dumb projects like high-speed rail and turning off water in state parks are silly), protecting well-connected utility company insiders and making sure public employee unions are taken care of. The continued boom in Silicon Valley of course has provided so much money to the state that the mismanagement might not be noticeable to everyone but it should be easy for a candidate to point it out. There are plenty of low hanging fruit that a GOP candidate could campaign about. The high-speed rail is "on track" to be the biggest waste of money EVER in CA and this project would be easy for a GOP candidate to RAIL against. Taking on Big Ag and trying to have a reasonable water allocation system would be another easy issue to campaign on. Maybe I'm not cynical enough, but I still think if we had a governor who actually cared about trying to provide basic needs to the people - water, power, transportation, emergency services - in an efficient way they could actually win the election.— November 2, 2016 9:13 a.m.
Closed-door meetings with Chargers preceded mayor's stadium backing
I think the next step will be to see what Kev and Ron offer the Chargers on Nov 9. The last offer was 350M and supposedly the Chargers wanted 650M which got shot down by Kev and Ron. Supposedly the deal for the Chargers to move to LA expires Jan 2017 but obviously the NFL could change that anytime they see fit. So the Chargers will probably use the Jan 2017 "deadline" to try to scare Kev, Ron, and the public into rushing into a bad deal. The Chargers want downtown but downtown is way too expensive and the convadium was obviously a stupid idea - I think everyone knows that. I'm guessing Kev and Ron will up the offer to about 450M for a new MV Chargers stadium and the Chargers will eventually take it. Just my guess.— October 31, 2016 4:30 p.m.
300 percent returns? No.
Legend has it that Prometheus was punished by being tied to a rock and getting his innards pecked at daily by an eagle for eternity. Perhaps his victims would like to see something similar for Catipay.— October 27, 2016 3:14 p.m.