Currently, the hot football being thrown around in LA is about AEG's plans to build a stadium to lure the NFL. One problem: it will be built in ultra-dense Downtown LA if AEG gets its way. However, just south of Downtown LA by only 15 miles is a facility AEG owns. It's Home Depot Center, home of the LA Galaxy and Club Deportivo Chivas Estados Unidos. OK, it's a soccer stadium. But with simple modifications, it can also support US rules football. More over the flip.
Home Depot Center (HDC from here on out) is on the grounds of Cal State University Dominguez Hills, and shares its revenue with this institution of higher learning. The facilities have been open since 2003, and the good fortunes of the facilities has meant CSU Dominguez Hills is one of the best capitalized universities of the CSU system. If Home Depot Center becomes the home for an NFL team, CSUDH would further prosper.
HDC is not as big as the NFL wants, but it can be expanded. It already has luxury boxes, and more and better luxury boxes could be built. The field is likely perfect as it is: they'd just have to draw a gridiron pattern on it rather than the FIFA standard soccer pitch for US-style football games.
Most importantly, using the HDC facility would mean that the LA Convention Center could remain as it is, at a time when it is only now coming into its own as a place for big conventions. It would also mean the already dense Downtown LA could get a little breathing room and not have to absorb crowds of tailgating NFL fans.
Once it is settled that Home Depot Center would become the new home of an LA NFL team, we can get down to business as far as revamping management of the LA Convention Center. Right now it's understaffed and overstressed. We can do better. Actually, AEG would probably do a much better job of managing the LACC than the City of Los Angeles currently does.