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Good weather isn't
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Why do we live in Los Angeles?
Weather.
Period. Paragraph.
It sure ain’t the taxes and traffic. If Al Gore ever stops California warming, we’ll all get the hell out of here.
With the sun splashing and the palm trees waving, we surf, bike, play tennis in July or February.
That’s outside. What about in the house and car? I’m a radio fan, and I must say L.A. airwaves are stifling. They’re jammed with three letters: USC.
My four-letter reaction: zzzz.
L.A. has no NFL team. Which would be like Germany’s second-biggest city, Hamburg, failing to field a soccer team. The Germans wouldn’t put up with it.
We shouldn’t either. We see St. Louis, Buffalo and Nashville housing NFL teams, and L.A. with minor league football, otherwise called USC.
L.A. radio thinks that since the University of Southern California sports the No. 1 team in America--and the Trojans play in the middle of Los Angeles--city dwellers want to hear about their every snap and speech.
The radio guys don’t get it. College football is provincial. The only fans who go nuts over college teams are alumni. I’m into the Missouri Tigers. That’s it.
Because of our NFL void, L.A. radio fills the air with USC. On game-day Saturday, that means all morning and aft.
SOS to NFL Commish Roger Goodell: Give us a team. And sanity.
Mizzou: This is a crest in Missouri football history. Those 62-0 and 77-0 losses of 30 and 20 years ago are old news.
Now we're bashing teams 69-17, as we did in Week 3 vs. Nevada. Man, was it heaven watching live at Mizzou. The Tigers struck with such lightning speed, I missed the first few touchdowns. Then sat through the rain, which is why I’m back basking in L.A.’s utopia.
Angels: Speaking of L.A. teams, this really isn’t one. It’s Orange County baseball, pure and simple. Owner Arte Moreno changed the name from Anaheim to Los Angeles three years ago, and he made cents. The marketing move drew serious ad revenue.
Still, it’s a lie. The Angels have zip to do with the City of Angels. This is nothing like the New York Jets and Giants, who play in New Jersey; fans in both states love those teams.
L.A. fans root for the Dodgers. They hardly know the Angels, who play down the freeway in a foreign land called Orange County.
Anaheimers, call home. You’re the O.C. Angels.
©2008 by Bucky Fox. The illustration is from IMSI's Master Clips Collection, 1895 Francisco Blvd. E., San Rafael, CA, 94901-5506, USA. This column first posted Sept. 22, 2008.
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