Tagliabue Weighs In on Rose Bowl’s Plans
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NEW YORK — The $500-million plan to renovate the Rose Bowl that was unveiled by stadium officials last week represents a significant development in the process to bring an NFL team back to the Los Angeles area, league Commissioner Paul Tagliabue said Saturday.
“It really brings it to a new level of specificity and concreteness in terms of planning and design,” Tagliabue told a group of sports editors. “I’ve seen some drawings that are much more specific than anything we’ve seen previously, and they seem to have been well-received.”
Later on ESPN, Tagliabue said of the efforts by Rose Bowl officials: “They really need to take some more steps on their own.... Whether we can do it in the short term, whether we can do it at the Rose Bowl, there are still a lot of ifs, ands or buts.”
The NFL is expected to get a full presentation of the plans at its league meetings May 20-21 in Philadelphia. The Rose Bowl bid being headed by investment banker John Moag will seek approval May 12 from the Pasadena City Council to pursue securing a nonbinding deal with the league.
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