Put a new San Diego stadium at Riverwalk (My LTTE to the San Diego UT)

Thank you UT San Diego for having a voice and taking a stance. I strongly believe that a new stadium is a significant benefit for San Diego.  As a local advertising, marketing and PR professional for 30 + years, the often overlooked value of our stadium are the impressions and the media exposure (advertising, in game, PR,) that events here make for our tourism industry and our general economy.  Imagine viewing late season football, playoffs, NCAA Bowls and Super Bowl games all shown from our beautiful, warm, welcoming city while you are literally freezing.

The doomsayers/naysayers/wet blanket no public money crowd will squawk, But I ask, why are cities across the country building stadiums for sports?  I believe that they realize sports teams, collegiate and professional, add to the quality of life for literally millions of people in a metro area.  Sport teams are a unifying point.  The market and desire for building stadiums and arenas is strong everywhere in the USA.  Most importantly, for San Diego, this is a marketing opportunity.

That said, I believe a potential site for a stadium has been overlooked.  It's hard to believe such a large parcel of land has not been considered but I have not seen it mentioned anywhere.

The option is Riverwalk Golf Course (sorry San Diego golfers).  While the property does not have the symmetry of the current stadium footprint, I believe that the acreage is similar, if not larger.  The trolley runs through the center of the property.  There is a need to do some flood mitigation work in that area and that could be done in conjunction with the project. It would also allow for work to be done to extend the public access trail system along the San Diego River further west from the current terminus.  Golf course land is not currently very expensive so the price to acquire the land should not be prohibitive.  I believe an exclusive access lane/road/exit could be built on the site from the current south bound 163, west bound 8 Hotel Circle North exit.  There is conceivably access from I-5 as well (I’m a Cal Trans believer).  Yes traffic would still be bad on game days, but that is inevitable and expected anywhere and in just about every other city that has a stadium.  There is a built in destination before and after the games with the Mission Valley malls within easy walking distance.  It is only about a mile as the crow flies to Old Town from there as well. 

Thank you for considering my idea.

Sorry Chris Kluwe fans, he's playing us and is a hypocrite.

Chris Kluwe calls out the coaches of the Vikings and says that they are cowards for 

#1 not standing up for what was right or 

#2 because they were afraid that if they did the right thing, their careers would be in jeopardy. 

I'll give Chris credit for taking a stance while he was a player. His statements and Comic Con lifestyle created buzz, was covered by many media outlets and made him the most covered punter in the NFL. His high profile lead to massive media attention including gigs writing for multiple media outlets including Sports Illustrated. 

After the Vikings, Chris was cut by the Oakland Raiders this Fall. He lost his job to a young, black punter with a stronger leg and was significantly less money. Chris went through the year, hoping to get back in to the NFL as a punter while keeping up his media profile. 

By the end of the year it became obvious that he was done - he's old (by NFL standards), expensive, marginally productive and ...yes ...controversial. 

So he calls Viking coach Leslie Frazier and GM Rick Spielman cowards because they wanted to lay low to presumably to protect their employment. But he only decides to write the article (which he acknowledges with kill any chance of a career) AFTER he and the entire football world comes to the conclusion that he will never play in the NFL again anyway. 

Therefore, he has nothing else to lose and he has no employment to jeopardize. By writing this well timed, post season, playoffs atmosphere, NFL withdrawal period article his "courage", celebrity and media desirability will be enhanced more than any other NFL player's calculated, post career spin campaign. 

He will get praises for the article, but how do you not see the hypocrisy? 

This smells like a very calculated self promotion.