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  Los Angeles Coliseum - LA Memorial Coliseum - Los Angeles Coliseum Tickets, Seating Chart
The Los Angeles Coliseum was built in the early 1920's and open its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
The Los Angeles Coliseum complex provided a house for the Rams (from Cleveland, 1946-79), the LA Dodgers (from Brooklyn, 1958-61) and the LA Lakers (from Minneapolis, 1960-68), and was the growth home of the San Diego Chargers (1960, AFL) and Kings (1967, NHL).
The 92,516 seat Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum serve as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 during the 1994 season, and at present serves as the residence for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition.
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  Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Los Angeles Dons of the All America Football Conference played in the Coliseum from 1946 to 1949, when the conference merged with the NFL and the Dons franchise was folded.
Rendering of the renovated Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Los Angeles County voters are generally uninterested in appropriating tax revenues toward a new stadium, which would put the costs of renovation on any future tenant.
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Los Angeles is the largest city in California, and the second most populous city in the United States (after New York City), with a population of 3,694,820 as of the 2000 census.
Los Angeles is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball team, the Los Angeles Lakers and Los Angeles Clippers men's basketball teams, the Los Angeles Sparks women's basketball team, the Los Angeles Kings hockey team, the Club Deportivo Chivas USA and Los Angeles Galaxy soccer teams, and the Los Angeles Avengers arena football team.
Los Angeles is perhaps the most mountainous metropolis in the world, with four mountain ranges partly inside city boundaries.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > Sports -- EIR shows L.A. Coliseum is still in hunt for NFL team
LOS ANGELES – In an effort to show they are still in the hunt for a National Football League team, officials with the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Monday released a draft environmental impact report on the historic venue's proposed renovation.
The Coliseum, located south of downtown Los Angeles in Exposition Park, is still perceived as a poor football venue in a questionable neighborhood.
The report notes that the Coliseum is located in the Los Angeles Police Department's Southwest Division, an area that had 56 murders last year – more than the average city police division.
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 New Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The leadership of Los Angeles, both public and private sectors, have come together for the purpose of renovating the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum into a modern, state of-the-art National Football League facility.
The NFL says the Los Angeles Coliseum is no longer the sole site under consideration for the league's 32nd and final franchise, giving hope to Houston officials that professional football could return to their city.
That's the rumor that is being discussed in Los Angeles and Houston as Davis' representatives meet with NFL officials.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was built in stages starting in 1923 and has had significant renovations for each of the Olympiads, in addition to repairs caused by the Northridge earthquake.
The Los Angeles Coliseum Commission has proposed plans that would bring the Coliseum up to a state of the art venue for a National Football League team, as well as continuing its use by the University of Southern California, plus a variety of concert/performance configurations.
The Schools and Government Operations Committee of the Los Angeles County Grand Jury determined that there are several areas of concern in the areas of safety and health of patrons of the Coliseum as it now is configured.
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 Los Angeles Express - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Los Angeles Express was a team in the United States Football League, an attempt to form a second major professional football league in the United States to compete with the established National Football League.
Steve Young went on to a great career in the NFL, and is apparently, as of May 2006, still receiving $1,000,000 a year from an annuity purchased by a team in a league that hasn't played a down of football in almost two decades.
One last-ditch marketing move by the Express just before the league folded was a solicitiation to students at USC (located adjacent to the Coliseum) of season passes for $100.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the greatest --and largest-- stadiums in America.
The Coliseum's general offices are located at the south side of the peristyle end and are open from 8:30 a.m.
October 31, 1996 - Los Angeles Daily News - In sharp reversal of its earlier postion, an NFL committee told Los Angeles officials to move ahead with plans to try to revive the Coliseum as a potential home for a professional football team.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the greatest --and largest-- stadiums in America.
The Coliseum's general offices are located at the south side of the peristyle end and are open from 8:30 a.m.
Part of the reluctance was the politics of the Coliseum Commission, which had promised to make changes for Raiders owner Al Davis and never did so, as well as the age of the facility, its location and the lack of parking.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets - Buy Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets, LA Memorial Coliseum
The LA Coliseum and Sports Arena are under the power of the Los Angeles Coliseum charge, which was shaped under the Joint work out of Powers Act on September 25, 1945 for the best LA Coliseum Tickets sale of the year.
The LA Coliseum was constructed in the early 1920's and opened its doors to the Los Angeles community in June 1923.
The 92,516 seat LA Coliseum served as the home of the Los Angeles Raiders of the NFL from 1982 from end to end the 1994 season, and at present serves as the home for the University of Southern California football (since 1923), and international soccer competition for the LA Coliseum Tickets for less.
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 1932 Summer Olympics - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, were held in 1932 in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum was known in 1932 as Olympic Stadium.
Tenth Street, a major throughfare in Los Angeles, was renamed Olympic Boulevard in honor of the Games.
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 Los Angeles Dodgers
The Los Angeles Dodgers were earlier known as the Brooklyn Dodgers.
The 60s were equally rewarding, the Los Angeles Dodgers marked it's first full decade with three national league Pennants in 1963, 1965 and 1966 and two World Series titles in 1963 and 1965.
The Los Angeles Dodgers for the second time in three years reached three million in home attendance and played host for their first All Star Game at Dodger Stadium.
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 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > State -- L.A. Coliseum commission approves EIR
LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission on Wednesday approved an environmental impact report on the proposed renovation of the historic venue.
Don Knabe, a Los Angeles County supervisor and president of the commission, hailed the decision as a significant move toward bringing the NFL back to the former home of the NFL's Raiders and Rams.
Coliseum officials have said that won't come until they begin negotiating with a team that wants to move into the venue.
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 Los Angeles Business Journal: For this very moment, L.A. is home, sweet home: Raiders will probably play in Coliseum ...
The team and the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum are going ahead with plans for the Raiders to play their home games here but both parties say that the final and real decision is up to the unpredictable Davis.
Davis has said the Los Angeles Coliseum is not a modern football stadium and isn't profitable because it lacks luxury boxes that appeal to corporations or wealthy individuals.
Spilman denied rumors and speculation in Los Angeles that the historic coliseum would be torn down and a new stadium would be built in order to keep the Raiders.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Seating Chart, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Tickets, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Maps   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Although its current capacity is listed as 92,516, the Coliseum used to seat more than 100,000 and often exceeded that number by quite a bit before renovations, including some because of a 1994 earthquake, changed the configuration of the stadium.
The Coliseum hosted the first Super Bowl in 1967 with the Green Bay Packers of the NFL defeating the AFL’s Kansas City Chiefs 35-10.
The Coliseum was the home of the Los Angeles Raiders before they moved to Oakland, and is still the home stadium of the two-time defending national champion USC Trojans.
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum - BR Bullpen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Built in 1932 for the Summer Olympics (only stadium prior to 1977 to host major league baseball and the Summer Olympics), stadium is a true coliseum, with the famous torch and scoreboard (called the "peristyle") on the one end, the track around the perimeter of the stadium, and all that.
The Coliseum is home of the USC Trojans and former home of the Los Angeles Rams and L.A. Raiders, and let's just face it – the park wasn't cut out for baseball.
The January 1994 earthquake that rocked Los Angeles did major but reparable damage to the Coliseum; repairs were made in time for USC to continue to use the stadium for football.
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 BallParkWatch -Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum / Los Angeles Dodgers / 1958-1961
When the Los Angeles Coliseum was constructed for the 1932 Olympics, no one ever envisioned that it would be used as a baseball stadium.
The Los Angeles Coliseum also did duty as a baseball stadium in 2001, representing other ballparks in the HBO movie 61, Billy Crystal's account of the home-run race between Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle in 1961.
To look like Baltimore's Memorial Stadium, new fences were put in the outfield, dugouts were planed in the infield, a facsimile scoreboard was erected, and an infield was cut out of the existing sod.
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CAJA prepared an EIR for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum Commission to renovate the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for a potential NFL team.
Upon completion of the proposed renovations, it is anticipated that the Coliseum would continue to host the same number and type of events as under existing and historical conditions.
One of the primary goals of the project was to renovate the Coliseum in conformance with the generally accepted standards of design for National Football League (NFL) stadiums, thus enabling the Coliseum Commission to acquire and maintain an NFL franchise in the City of Los Angeles.
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 Los Angeles Sports Council - L.A. Facilities
The first NFL Pro Bowl was played in the Coliseum in 1951, two Super Bowls (the first in 1967 and the seventh in 1973) were held there and it was even the home field for the Los Angeles Dodgers when they moved from Brooklyn, from 1958-61 (the 1959 World Series was played in the Coliseum).
The Coliseum is owned and operated by the Los Angeles Coliseum Commission, under the direction of General Manager Pat Lynch.
The Coliseum is part of the 17-acre Exposition Park complex, which includes numerous museums and gardens in addition to the Coliseum and Sports Arena.
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 Facilities :: The University of Southern California Trojans - Official Athletic Site
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is one of the greatest and largest stadiums in America.
The 1998 season marked the 75th anniversary of USC football in the Coliseum Construction on the Coliseum took less than 2 years, with ground breaking ceremonies held on Dec. 21, 1921, and work completed on May 1, 1923.
The Coliseum has a present full-capacity of 92,000 seats (almost all are chair-back seats).
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 Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum is located at 3911 South Figueroa Street, Los Angeles, CA 90037, and is located near the University of Southern California.
The stadium also hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics and numerous Los Angeles teams, including the: Rams and Raiders of the NFL, Dodgers of MLB, Chargers of the AFL, Express of the USFL, Aztecs of the NASL, and Extreme of the XFL, along with the UCLA Bruins for a few years.
In 1984, the State of California and the U.S. Government declared the Coliseum a State and National Historical Landmark and the Pope visit in 1987 set an all-time attendance record at the coliseum at 134,254.
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