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Rams most likely to go to L.A.
I don't know if it was sanity that prevailed or just the Big East finally folding. The only league SDSU should consider joining is the PAC-12. I think putting SDSU in the Big East was absolute proof that the so-called student-athletes are really semi-professional athletes whose job is to earn football (and basketball) revenue for the school.— October 24, 2014 7:41 a.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
You and I may think that the games should be played to benefit the home fans but the NFL will care what the Dollar and the Pound think. And the Dollar and Pound most likely will think TV revenue is more important than fan revenue. Most of the games in London so far have been at 6PM GMT (1PM EST) although this year one of the games this year will be 1:30PM GMT which is at 9:30AM EST. If you look at it this year there are 6 teams making the trip to London so I guess it's not that far off to have 10 teams make the trip (2 preseason + 8 regular season).— October 23, 2014 9:02 p.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
I think to reach the USA prime time TV audience the game in London would have to start pretty late at night. Maybe 10pm start to hit 5pm on East Coast. From a TV perspective I think it would be better to have a Sunday game which could accommodate reasonable times for both live fans and TV viewers— October 23, 2014 9:26 a.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
If not L.A. how about L,E. The really wacky idea keeps popping up that the NFL will put a team in London. Story today (http://sports.yahoo.com/news/british-government-w…) "LONDON (AP) -- The British government wants an NFL team based in London. George Osborne, the British treasury chief, told the Evening Standard newspaper on Wednesday that the government will do whatever it can ''to make this happen.'' Of course the players will fight this idea - I think no matter how nice the airplane flight is jet lag will be a serious problem for teams travelling between London and USA.— October 22, 2014 10:12 p.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
If anything the league (and Vegas casinos) would be disappointed that you won't be able to bet on a Vegas NFL team, as Nevada law doesn't allow wagering on Nevada teams.— October 22, 2014 10:08 p.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
I think the NFL has gotten great mileage from using LA as a constant threat against any city that actually has the temerity to resist the requests for public stadium financing. But now maybe the time for that has come to an end. It sounds like they want to put 2 teams in LA - presumably one NFC and one AFC team. So the Rams and Raiders seem like the likely choices but I wouldn't completely rule out the CHargers— October 21, 2014 7:26 p.m.
Rams most likely to go to L.A.
Problem is people don't want to admit it's welfare for billionaires. Supposedly "independent" consultants get paid loads of money to come up with slanted reports that purport to show how the subsidies for billionaires and millionaires actually benefit everyone. In contrast, almost every truly independent researcher (see e.g. fieldofschemes.com ) comes up with the conclusion that the subsidies for billionaire owners and millionaire players mostly benefit the owners and players (Roger Noll has some good studies as well)— October 21, 2014 7:15 p.m.
Unemployment rate down, so are jobs
The "me too" mentality runs rampant so it is important that outrageous deals and compensation get curbed. 2 wrongs do make a right in many people's minds - as long as they are the beneficiary of the 2nd wrong. For example, the Wall Street bailouts were grossly unfair to taxpayers and the middle and lower classes. So everyone else wants their bailout. I think policy makers should consider fundamental fairness and long term effects of any decision more than short-term economic benefits.— October 20, 2014 7:20 p.m.
Unemployment rate down, so are jobs
It is a bit difficult to make an apples/apples comparison because the skillsets of the government workforce vs. private sector workforce aren't the same for that many cases. What is clear is that the private sector employee has to sustain a great deal more risk for retirement. The public sector employees have very little risk in their retirement benefits which can be quite generous in many cases. The only risk is that in some extreme case like Detroit or Stockton there is a chance the public employee may lose part of their retirement benefits. Private sector employees typically have 401k plans which of course can lose value due to bad choices or just bad luck. The problem with the public sector pension benefits is that it's so easy for politicians and labor leaders to write big checks now that future generations have to pay for. It's not so much the amount of compensation that's the problem per se (although as Don says there are plenty of examples of outrageous public employee pension benefits) but the fact that the costs and risks get shifted to future generations of taxpayers so that present generations don't have to make tough decision. Tough decision is: better services, higher taxes vs. lower services, lower taxes. Easy (but unethical) decision is better services AND lower taxes and shift costs and risks to the future. The compensation packages to many private sector executives are clearly beyond absurd at this point.— October 19, 2014 5:55 p.m.
Unemployment rate down, so are jobs
It's a difficult balancing act for an honest political leader and I can appreciate that;. What I can't appreciate is putting the difficult cost/benefit decisions at a lower priority than, say, luring a political convention to town.— October 18, 2014 1:50 p.m.