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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon

Personally, I think the league really does NOT want a team in LA. They want LA to be that "big market where a stadium might be built to take a team " and use that as a lever to get new stadiums built for existing teams in places like Minnesota and Louisiana and Indy (already done) and Arizona (already done) and San Diego (already done).

I agree, but this litte mention from the St. Louis Post Dispatch is interesting, though it seems really farfetched:

Here's a peculiar nugget from Tom Jensen's NASCAR column on SpeedTV.com:

"And speaking of stick-and-ball sports, the official Media Tour Rumor That Refuses To Die is that NASCAR Chairman Brian France is trying to buy an NFL team. Specifically, multiple sources close to the situation claim France and Rupert Murdoch's son are trying to buy the St. Louis Rams and move the team back to Los Angeles.

"Asked about it on the opening day of the media tour, France's comment was, 'We've got a deep-structured team anyway, but I'm not planning to go anywhere, and that's really the extent of anything I could comment to.' Many in attendance took that as a blanket denial, but we'll have to wait and see. Right now, it's a rumor, but it's coming from so many different sources and different directions that it's hard to believe there isn't at least some fire where there's so much smoke.''