Are you ready for an L.A. City Championship football game at San Pedro?
That might be the case this season if the L.A. City Section and the L.A. Coliseum can't work out a deal for this year's final on Dec. 13.
San Pedro is one of five alternatives for the City, along with L.A. Southwest College, Birmingham High, Crenshaw High and Granada Hills High, if they can't make the Coliseum happen. Those venues have the capacities that would work for a title game. A City Section spokeswoman said Friday that a decision could be coming as early as Monday.
The City has hosted the championship football games at the Coliseum since 1996 and has a storied history behind it as the home to the USC Trojans and to the Raiders before they moved to Oakland.
But the City and the Coliseum appear to be far apart in proposed rental costs.
A written proposal from the Coliseum to the City was $30,000 more than what the City had originally agreed to, Section officials said Wednesday.
Pat Lynch, the general manager of the Coliseum, offered the City the chance to host two games rent-free on Thursday, but said that costs associated with the game must still be paid.
The costs cover painting the field, ticket takers, concession workers, security and set-up, among others. For one game, it would be $43,000 and for the traditional two games, it's $57,000. The Coliseum is jointly operated by the city, Los Angeles County and the state. The sides are about $18,000 apart.
Here's some free advice from the Daily Breeze: keep the L.A. City Championship game at the Coliseum to preserve the history and the significance of the event and move the game that doesn't mean anything - the Invitational final that essentially determines the 17th-best team in the City - to a venue more in line with the magnitude of the game.
That's $14,000 savings right there!
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