Post by TheShadow on Jun 16, 2006 16:30:40 GMT -5
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Commissioner Paul Tagliabue headed a NFL delegation which met with leaders of the Los Angeles business community on Wednesday, and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa expressed optimism about the return of a professional team to the area.
"We're farther along than we have been at any time since professional football left Los Angeles," Villaraigosa told reporters with Tagliabue at his side before the parties had their dinner meeting and reception at Getty House, the mayor's formal residence.
The greater Los Angeles area has been without a NFL team since the Raiders left the Los Angeles Coliseum for Oakland and the Rams departed from what is now known as Angel Stadium in Anaheim for St. Louis before the 1995 season.
NFL owners decided last month at an owners meeting in Denver to give $5 million (4 million euros) each to Los Angeles and Anaheim to explore the amount of support, especially financial, that each community can supply to help build a new stadium.