News: Los Angeles Football Club. 2018

Am I out to lunch here? MLS bought the Chivas rights from Vergara a few months ago for 70 million, and the new group bought them from MLS a couple of weeks ago for 100 million... right? Or was that just a rumor?

 

Pretty sure this is correct. That's what I remember reading too.

 

The league bought this not the LAFC ownership and the reported price was $70 million.
I am asking what the expansion fee was for the LAFC ownership.

 

Not quite, they kept announcing that they were ignoring it.

Seattle fans don't know something about soccer?!

 

What's the word? Someone give me the run down. I'm glad to see that the greatest soccer player from Alabama is now an owner !!

 

Wahl/Straus threw it out weeks ago that it could be for a record fee, so it could be more than NYCFC's $100 million

 

Young Jennifer Lopez of 1998 MLS Cup halftime show fame and Jennifer Lawrence are almost dead ringers. Time warp. Jenny from the Spock.

 

If 10 miles the other way down the 110 is a long way, then so is 12 (Plus, SHC is more convenient to freeways than the Rose Bowl)

 

You do remember the Rose Bowl used to be where the Galaxy played right?

 

Aaron Johannsson?

Just kidding! It tells you a lot about Alabama that it's two greatest players only link is being born there.

 

Also, getting in and out of the Rose Bowl is a legendary cluster F---

 

United is still hoping for 2017.

 

The local university, the Mighty Golden Rodents, have four (count 'em, FOUR) such rivalry games each fall, competing for a bronze pig (Iowa), an axe (Wisconsin), a jug (Michigan) and a bell (Penn State)...

 

Ultraviolet and fleshtone? (to quote the late, great George Carlin...)

 

Actually, the Aztecs played home games at both the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl.

Sort of like UCLA, I guess.

 

There is a player on the Galaxy, I think, Chandler Hoffman. He's from Alabama too. However, having the greatest women's player in the history of the world from your state is nothing to sneeze at.

 

Neither the Rose Bowl nor the Coliseum are tiered stadiums, so anything under 80% capacity looks sparse.

 

Yup. And that makes 2017 significantly different from how many other years within the previous decade or so?

Not that we all don't share in their hopes for a new venue within the next handful of years. But stadiums ain't built with hope.

 

Well they'll only be calling the Coliseum home for a year or two so it shouldn't be a big deal. And it's less the tiering and more that both stadiums hold 90,000 people that makes crowds their look sparse. Even NFL teams would have a hard time filling either place regularly.

 

12 miles apart in the far-flung LA basin. Almost like a Polo Grounds/Yankee Stadium shot across the Harlem River. Seems like they need to focus on Latinos, or move north into the Valley to get fans who avoid the drive to Carson..

 

Don't forget Hollywood. And East LA.