vikins new digs

Just when we thought that all team owners were a bunch of cheap rich boys. Along comes Billionaire team owner Edward P. Roski Jr. he has agreed to make a NFL stadium only fit for Los Angeles. Now, all he needs is a team that is willing to play there. Roski, a part owner of the Sacramento Kings and Los Angeles Lakers who has been trying for years to get a Professional NFL team back to L.A. he revealed plans on Thursday for a 75,000-seat stadium in the City he said it could be done in time for the 2011 season. “I intend to develop our stadium project that meets all of the NFL requirements, and more,” he said at a news conference in the Staples Center, where he shows a copy of what the stadium would look like. “Always the most important thing has been the certainty of doing this. A team is not going to commit to coming to Los Angeles without a stadium. We’ve taken this one point of uncertainty and made it a certainty. The stadium is a certainty and it will be built.” And he also stated that he would do without the public dollar. “Absolutely no taxpayer dollars,” he said. “There’s no taxpayer dollars to get.” He has plans for a 600-acre site to be fronted by a shopping mall; it will be on an empty property which he already owns. Roski said the cost would be around $800 million, the stadium will be made on a hillside which means way less steel he has to use. That will means that he pays 400 million less than if it were made on flat land. There is speculation that the Minnesota Vikings have agreed to move in to the new stadium. Since the team’s lease in the metro dome will expire at the end of the 2010 season perfect timing to move into their own home and don’t have to share with the Twins.