The Annual Dance

I opened the LA Times today, because it is Oscar time and the LA Times covers the Oscars like no one else. Including this year - where they have a voter who is sharing his thoughts anonymously (Deep Vote - get it, like Deep Throat from Watergate; I said like no one else - not always great :-) One more aside, Deep Vote is a pretentious twit and impossibly shallow in his reviews - no hurry there.
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Anyway, there is an Angelino annual ritual I forgot about. It is the yearly, post-Football season, "Will LA get a pro football team this time?" dance. (USC is only semi-pro and doesn't count.)
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It always ends in the negative because LA doesn't do the one thing that successful dancers do (ones like Houston - now home of the Texans, or Tennessee -new home of the Titans (nee Oilers), or Baltimore -home of the Ravens, or Cleveland -home of the Browns (nee Ravens)). LA does not pony up the cash. Not the least of the reasons why is that Angelino's have been without a football team since 1994 and are doing fine.
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That may sound odd, but both the LA / Oakland Raiders and the LA/ Orange County /St. Louis Rams could only get out of the contract by pulling horrible attendance figures. So they ran their teams into the ground so no one went. And the Byzantine contract requires that television show the home team if the game isn't sold out so we watched these two dogs play every Sunday for 2 years. We were happy when they left that we could at least WATCH good football.
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ps - Georgia Rosenbloom Fortiere was, is and will always be a conniving bitch in my book. Good riddance to bad rubbish. Had Carrol Rosenbloom known what she would do with his beoved Rams, he would have fixed his will.
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This year talk is centered on San Diego Chargers moving to the City of Industry.
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This would be the new stadium, built on top of a rather tall hill (although it would be a low mountain in Florida).
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For those of you familiar with the freeway system it would be at the conflux of the 605 and 60. And on Sundays would bring not only the 605 and 60 to a screeching halt, but play hell with the 10 (at San Fanciscito Carson!), the 5 at the narrow part near Downy and the end of the 105.
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It is on the Metro line... oh wait.. it isn't anywhere near a Metro line.
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It will, of course, not be built. It will join the ranks of the Carson Landfill, the Irving Gravel Pit, the refurbished Colosseum and the stadium within the Rose Bowl in the "if we only had a billion dollars" hall of fame.
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This yearly dance started like some Greek Tragedy for football fans, then moved to farce and is now an annual sideshow much less sad, but just as frustrating as Arab Israeli peace talks.