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Kevin Drum writes:
First, like any sensible resident of the Los Angeles area in the post-Rams era, I hate the NFL with a burning passion. Local LA politics might not give us much to be proud of, but it does give us at least one reason to hold our heads high: our steadfast refusal to give an inch to the smarmy blackmailers of the NFL who, to a man, are convinced that every city in the country should shower them with riches for the privilege of hosting one of their teams. The resulting cash, of course, goes to line the pockets of overpaid athletes and fat cat team owners, and if there are any less deserving recipients of public largesse in the galaxy than those two groups, I can't think of them.Just so. As a Southern Californian, I've taken the little ball of spite and poison the Rams left us with, and, as the NFL treated my region ever more cynically, made a principled, ideological objection out of it. This is why I've committed my life to 1) universal health care and, once that's complete, 2) turning the country against publicly funding stadiums where private teams will play.
