In L.A. Pro Football, We Get What We Pay For

Before the Coliseum Commission starts to seriously solicit proposals for an NFL team [April 6], it had better take a look at the management of this facility.

Let me state first that I love the Coliseum with all my heart. I have attended football games there for more than 40 years. But when I arrived at the Coliseum last fall for the USC-San Diego State football game, the seats were covered with crud, the standards that held the seats in place were rusted, and the place was in a state of general disrepair. The concession stands are few and far between and are manned by the rudest people I’ve seen at a stadium anywhere. The food is lousy and overpriced. This is not an NFL-caliber facility. It’s not even a Pacific 10-caliber facility under its current management.

Before the commission starts any proposal endeavors, it had better, literally and figuratively, put its house in order.

GERALD M. REEVES

El Cajon

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Does anyone else find it amusing that, after what the NFL has done to Los Angeles fans in the past few years, the new Arena League team is called the Avengers?

CHARLES JENCKS

Riverside