Since the Raiders and Rams vacated in second biggest market in the United States, the NFL has been trying to find a way to get their product back in Los Angeles. However, the city continues without a team in the nation's most popular sport. No definitive plan to change that is in sight. That's what makes this little piece of news from Major League Soccer so interesting.
On Monday, MLS is going to announce that Chivas USA will begin play in Los Angeles starting in 2005. The interesting part is that one year from today, L.A. will have two professional soccer teams and zero NFL franchises. The Galaxy have called L.A. their home since the league's formation.
I'm not sure what this means. Are Los Angeles' citizens more interested in the "other" football than the NFL's product? Are there just more potential soccer owners interested in the L.A. market? Is Los Angeles just a lousy sports town? I have no idea. It does make me wonder, just a tiny bit, if that soccer revolution predicted when the NASL was in operation thirty years ago, is finally beginning?
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