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Oops! NFL team official slips up and tells the truth
Don Bauder, I don't disagree with your above premise. That's why I included Minnesota as at least a possible, if not probable, host site after 2017. But the point it was trying to get across, apparently unsuccessfully, is that the likelyhood of another cold weather Super Bowl, excluding one in Minnesota,depends on 2 things, in my opinion. First is how next years NJ based Super Bowl comes off. Second, assuming all goes well, is what the owners I mentioned above end up wanting to do. Look at the next 4 Super Bowls. No cold weather cities until at least 2018. Let me put it a little more concisely. Apart from Minnesota's new stadium, the ONLY new stadium even being dreamed about right now is for Buffalo. And even with that "dream", Buffalo signed a 10 yr lease extension. Under the terms any relocation in the first 7 years carries a $400 million penalty as a price tag. So in effect, the Bills are there until 2020 at the earliest. With the way the NFL does their Super Bowl bid process, IF the Bills can get money for a new stadium, the would have to be committed to it by about 2017 just to bid for a Super Bowl somewhere around 2024-2025. There are no other new stadiums in "cold climes" coming for the NFL to the out the Super Bowl as bait.— February 14, 2013 6:44 p.m.
Oops! NFL team official slips up and tells the truth
Actually, they did, or at least the were warned about it and chose to ignore/not believe the warning. In the afternoon and evening, when the inland temperatures rise, a very strong and cold wind comes in off of the Pacific Ocean. When ever someone was brought in to inspect the site, they were brought in in the morning. Lucky choice? I think not. Also, the upper deck, as originally designed, was supposed to be a wind baffle. Due to financial constraints, it was not built as designed . The architect also considered rotating it 45 degrees because of the wind but at the time the was the issue of the sun being in the eyes of the right fielder. He was overruled because it was better, read cheaper, to inconvenience one outfielder than redo the plans. I also have a friend in the bay area who once had an architect, one who designs large structures, tell him that most of the problems with the wind could have been avoided if the Stick had been built a few feet further east. It seems the problem is the hill to the west. As the wind comes in from the west, it deflects up and over the hill and down into the bowl of the stadium. Had the stadium been built something like only 50 ft further east, the wind would have deflected off of and then over the stadium. BTW, I read a few days ago that once the Santa Clara stadium is finished, the Stick will be imploded and the site used for a mall and residential/office complex. I have frozen my ass off there on many occasions, bad enough that while we were in college, my wife, then girlfriend, stopped going with me. What's the old saying, The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. I'll give the Stick this though. As cold as it can get, even in the middle of the summer, the old girl help up pretty damn good during the '94 Loma Prieta quake.— February 14, 2013 6:16 p.m.
Ex-Sanders aide gets $6,000 a month for Balboa Park centennial role
I don't read VOSD, so I'm not personally familiar with your work, but I;ll ask you this anyway, just because I'm curious as to your answer. Why do you even give a flying f*ck about what Dan Bauder, Fred Williams, or anyone else for that matter, says about your writing. I mean really, Why? What possible difference does it make. A bunch of guys in a pissing contest on a blog? I don't really see it as anything else. To me it's even less of an issue that if they said it in person and going back and forth is just a waste of time. That's just my own personal opinion. If someone in a comments section want's to act like a douche, so what. I just don't care. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— February 14, 2013 3:26 p.m.
Hit-and-run driver gets 2 years State prison
I think we are saying the same thing in different terms. Serve 1 day and get 1 day added as credit.— February 14, 2013 3:14 p.m.
Hit-and-run driver gets 2 years State prison
Well, by the dates in the article, he's been in since about July 8 or 9. That's about 220 days.According to the last version of 4019 I found, 2010, a term of four days will be deemed to have been served for every two days spent in actual custody. Reads like 2-1 to me.— February 14, 2013 2:55 p.m.
Oops! NFL team official slips up and tells the truth
Do you mean is the stadium a done deal? If so, the surfpuppy is a little behind as they broke ground almost a year ago. The stadium will be done in time for the 2014 season. It was 1997 that they had a plan for a privately funded stadium and adjacent development at Candlestick Point. A prop was approved by the voters for $100 million to help subsidize the project.— February 14, 2013 2:51 p.m.
How to get a drivers license: pay a bribe
Didn't intend to imply it should have been ignored. More like it happens so often and in so many places, that it's no longer a surprise when I hear about it. I don't know if it's happening more these days or if more people are getting caught. I suspect probably a little of both. The first time I heard of it had to be sometime in the '80's, somewhere here in LA.— February 14, 2013 11 a.m.
Oops! NFL team official slips up and tells the truth
I disagree with your reasoning as to why future Super Bowls will go to stadiums in cold climes. In my opinion New Jersey in 2014 is a thank-you to New Jersey for paying $300 million in infrastructure for the new stadium. In 2015, the Super Bowl is in Glendale. In 2016, it's between Santa Clara and Miami, IF Miami gets a stadium upgrade. As of a couple of days ago, the vote hadn't been scheduled and talk is that without a Super Bowl guarantee in 2016 or 2017, no upgrade. The 2017 finalists are Houston and whichever of the other who don't get the SB in 2016, again only if Miami has upgraded their stadium. After 2017, then where? Minnesota, in a new stadium with a retractable roof, would be a likely candidate. I think the owners will take a hard look at how things go in New Jersey before deciding on another outdoor cold weather site. But I don’t think such a selection will have anything to do with” rewarding cities that massively (or completely) subsidize stadiums for the owners”. It will be about power. Dan Snyder owns the team in the nation’s capital. Robert Kraft and Pat Bowlen are two of the NFL’s power brokers, though there are questions about Bowlen’ health. By giving a Super Bowl to New Jersey, the NFL has set a precedent. If the 2014 Super Bowl goes off even moderately well, then these guys are going to want one too. Jerry Jones may own the NFL’s highest valued team, but Bob Kraft is the only owner who's on the broadcast, labor and finance committees. So would the other owners vote against a game in Foxborough if New Jersey goes well? How about a game in the nation’s capital or in the city with 43 consecutive seasons of sellouts? My guess is that unless New Jersey is an unmitigated disaster, we’ll see the NFL implementing a cold-weather game about every four years. And with the 49er’s new stadium in Santa Clara, the only chance for a Super Bowl in So Cal is a new stadium. San Diego, downtown LA, City of Industry, it doesn’t matter where. Only a new stadium would compete with Santa Clara for a west coast Super Bowl. Just my opinion. Opinions vary.— February 14, 2013 9:30 a.m.
So is Manchester negotiating to buy LA Times?
Do you mean the Chart House? Zell spent about $20 million for about 1/3 of the company about 15 yrs ago. A few months later, he moved their headquarters from Solano Beach to Chicago. About 10 yrs ago he sold about 60% of the chain to Landry's, including those in Ca. We haven't been to the one in Cardiff for probably a year at least, but we eat at the one in Malibu quite a bit.— February 14, 2013 8 a.m.
How to get a drivers license: pay a bribe
Old news. This has been going on for a long time. About 3 yrs ago, some people were busted up here at an LA DMV. About a year ago a woman at an OC DMV was convicted of doing it. Last spring a couple more people were arrested for doing it at the very same LA DMV office that the others were busted at. A couple of years ago, they busted 5 people from 4 different locations in the same week for doing it. The woman in OC was making 2K each for the ones she did. Like I said, old news. This ha been going on for a long time and no doubt probably still is.— February 14, 2013 7:39 a.m.