Los Angeles City Council advances plan for new NFL stadium

August 09, 2011 / CNN

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approved a nonbinding agreement with a developer Tuesday on the general terms on building a privately financed $1.2 billion stadium to lure the return of an NFL team.

"Send us a team, NFL," Los Angeles Councilmember Paul Koretz said right before Tuesday's council vote.

Despite being the nation's second-largest city, Los Angeles has been without an NFL franchise since the 1994 season, when the Rams and Raiders left town, a city official said. Tuesday's vote marked the latest chapter in the city's saga of trying to regain a pro football team.

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The plan calls for an NFL team to be playing in a new stadium -- to be called Farmers Field -- in downtown Los Angeles by the 2016 season, officials said. The proposed 72,000-seat stadium would be expandable to 76,000 seats, a city official said

LINK: http://articles.cnn.com/2011-08-09/us/california.la.stadium.nfl_1_new-nfl-stadium-los-angeles-city-council-perry?_s=PM:US

FYI: There's a competing stadium proposal in nearby City of Industry.

That was why the last expansion berth, which was basically targeted to L.A., ended up being the Houston Texans.

hands off the Raiders and 49ers though

:grr:

32 seems like about as big as a league should get.

Or are they thinking they can snag a team from somewhere else? If so, from where?

Teams that have been mentioned in the past have been the Jaguars, Vikings, Raiders, and 49ers, I believe.