The NFL has "asked" Carson city officials "for a letter
of interest regarding an expansion franchise and a stadium
site," according to Bob Keisser of the Long Beach PRESS-
TELEGRAM, who writes that the league "has made the same
request of city officials at two other possible sites, in
Inglewood (Hollywood Park) and Irvine." Carson city council
member Daryl Sweeney said the city will submit a letter of
interest, "but no one plans to get optimistic." NFL Senior
VP/Communications & Government Affairs Joe Browne: "We're
still looking at the alternatives to the Coliseum. ... We're
working as hard as we can to work something out in L.A., but
we're not discussing anything beyond the [September 15]
deadline." Sweeney, on the Coliseum site: "From day one,
the NFL said two issues were crucial to an expansion team, a
public subsidy and parking. If I knew this, why didn't the
Coliseum and its supporters? This (the collapse) was
totally predictable." Sweeney added that there have been
"several new inquiries for developing" the Carson site,
including the city becoming "proactive in getting the site
included in an environmental appropriations bill that would
make federal money available for cleanup" (Long Beach PRESS-
TELEGRAM, 8/24). In L.A., Steve Dilbeck writes that the NFL
Expansion Committee will meet September 9 in DC, and "is not
expected to take any formal action" on the L.A. bid, but it
"hopes to evaluate the process on the deadline's eve so it
can later make a recommendation to the full ownership" at an
October 6 meeting in Atlanta (L.A. DAILY NEWS, 8/24).
