11/18 Mike Lombardi, Casey Wasserman (NFL, LA Football)
4630 oh yeah, cities have to pay teams to move to their city
5130 LA hasn’t had a final four since the 60’s, because all of its venues are too small. it hasn’t had a superbowl since early 2000s (san diego), but it used to be once every three years.
special football games aren’t taking place in california anymore
5530 the long standing belief that la cannot support an nfl team is ludicrous. it could possibly support 2.
look at it as “10 event days a year per football team”
have it for specialty college games (a la notre dame at yankee stadium / northwestern at wrigley field)
58 people haven’t taken a fresh look a the fan experience with the flexibility from starting from scratch. you need to design it to compete with the living room