NFL To Los Angeles Getting Serious: Dodger Stadium Considered As Temporary Site

The NFL has looked at three potential temporary sites in the Los Angeles area for relocation, according to a report, including Dodger Stadium.

According to a report, officials from the National Football League have looked at three sites in the Los Angeles area as potential temporary sites for a relocated team.

Two of them are both easy to guess and make sense—the Rose Bowl in Pasadena and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in University Park.

But Dodger Stadium? Really?

According to NFL Media’s Albert Breer, yes:

One interesting thing I learned ... League hasn't just looked at Rose Bowl and Coliseum as temp sites. It's also looked at Dodger Stadium.
— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) December 14, 2014

Dodger Stadium has stood on its Chavez Ravine location since 1962 and it has hosted the same number of football games—professional, college, pee wee—as my dining room has.

That would be zero.

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As InsideSoCal.com’s Tom Hoffarth wrote in 2010, the closest a football game ever got to being played in Dodger Stadium is when some lines were marked in the outfield for part of a football field for a television commercial.

Los Angeles Dodgers team historian Mark Langill said four years ago that he’s never seen a proposal for putting an entire football field on the ground in the stadium.

Hoffarth’s piece included an anecdote about USC approaching the owner of the Dodgers at the time, Peter O’Malley, about playing their 1983 home schedule at Dodger Stadium.

Apparently, USC was embroiled in a dispute with the Coliseum about control of luxury boxes … luxury boxes that were never actually built.

O’Malley’s reply:

"“It doesn’t make any sense to play football in Dodger Stadium. … We have the finest baseball stadium in the United States.”"

Agree with that assessment or no, he had a point.

One of the teams most often talked about for relocation, the Oakland Raiders, have grown weary about playing games where the infield dirt at O.co Coliseum is an issue for the first six to eight weeks of their season.

Other teams rumored to be eyeing Los Angeles are the San Diego Chargers—who played their first AFL season at the Coliseum in 1960 before heading south—and the St. Louis Rams, who played at the Coliseum from 1946-79 before playing 15 seasons at Anaheim Stadium.

The Raiders played at the Coliseum from 1982-94.

So how much sense does it make to move a team into a facility that has been a baseball-only stadium for more than a half-century?

That would be zero.

The NFL has looked at three potential temporary sites in the Los Angeles area for relocation, according to a report, including Dodger Stadium.

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