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The Inglorious History of Los Angeles Football
Right now, L.A. is the most important football city on the map. But that's been true for a long time.
Los Angeles hasn't hosted a professional football home-team game since Christmas Eve of 1994. Over the two decades that have followed, that's all that anyone's been able to talk about, there or elsewhere: L.A. football. The city's never been closer to returning to the NFL—or maybe it's the other way around—than it is now.
True, the Los Angeles Times reports that one group has walked away from its long-standing vision of football in Los Angeles. Plans for Farmers Field would have seen an NFL team playing in a 72,000-seat stadium downtown near the Staples Center. The stadium's backers reiterated on Tuesday that it's never going to happen.