So, I was sitting here thinking about the new CBA for the NFL and something popped into my head: Why can’t the fans have a say in these  sorts of proceedings? After all, isn’t it the fans who make all of this revenue possible in the first place? I mean, we’re the ones who pay eight dollars a beer, one hundred dollars for a jersey, and twenty dollars for a hat. That’s not even including the outrageous price per ticket that we fans are forced to pay just to watch our teams play in a live setting. I just think the owners, players, coaches, and all of the other people that make up these organizations are dependent upon our money for their salaries, which help them to continue to live their extravagant lifestyles. All of this while a good portion of us fans live paycheck to paycheck, just getting by and saving up for the ability to go to games. And if we absolutely can’t afford the games, we’re still struggling to pay for the cable television it takes to watch them at home, helping to create the ratings that make it possible for these large networks to pay the NFL for the commercial rights to their games. Now, you can call me crazy but I would like to see something done about this or at least be heard.

So, it’s final, Los Angeles will be getting an NFL team. No one is sure yet of the exact timeline for the move but the first step has been taken by voting for the funds to build a new stadium. As of right now the front-runners are the Oakland Raiders, San Diego Chargers, Jacksonville Jaguars, Buffalo Bills, and the St.Louis Rams. First let’s be honest, no city wants Al Davis running any franchise for them, especially not the NFL fan-base in Los Angeles, and the fans of the Raiders aren’t much better than the owner, so if Oakland were to be the chosen one I don’t think anyone in L.A. really has the desire to put up with Al Davis or the so-called hoodlums that are the Raiders fans. That’s why I highly doubt Oakland will be the team. Jacksonville is the most logical choice as both ticket and jersey sales suck, and most of the football fans in Florida go for either Tampa Bay or Miami, which doesn’t leave much room for Jacksonville to build a strong fan-base.As I said, I do believe that the Jacksonville Jaguars are the most logical choice, however, since they are such a young team I’m not sure that they’re the most likely to be transferring anywhere. The St. Louis Rams originally came from Los Angeles. Now, who wants to bet that they won’t be going back? Me. Buffalo is my second most likely team to head to Los Angeles, even though that would give the state of California four NFL Teams. But as of right now the Buffalo Bills are going nowhere and, in my eyes, need a new change in scenery to have any kind of real success in the future, not to mention a move to L.A. would boost jersey sales, ticket sales, and the like, therefore creating more revenue to spend on some top notch players, which they desperately need. But they’re still not my top choice to make the move. Last but not least, and actually my favorite NFL team  to head to L.A., is, drumroll please………….. the San Diego Chargers. They have had success in the past years, but with that said, they still seem to be the most likely candidate. First off, they are a hop, skip, and a jump away from L.A., so it would be easy for their current fan-base, which is quite large, to follow them to L.A. Second, they’re a well built franchise already, aside from a crappy coach (who I don’t believe will last another season). If they were to move to L.A., with all of the money and people there to add to the team, I think they could easily become a top ten team. A move like this would almost definitely help them make the transition from a mediocre NFL team to an elite one.