Technically, the last time an NFL team played in Los Angeles, was in 1994.

After the 1979 season, the then Los Angeles Rams relocated to what is currently Angel Stadium in Anaheim where they played until 1994 only to be relocated to St. Louis. The Oakland Raiders moved to Los Angeles in 1982.

The Rams move back to Los Angeles this year, it is the fourth time in the franchise’s 80-year history that they have relocated into a different city. According to their website, their 1946-1994 tenure in Southern California was their longest though.

This has the potential to be a great opportunity for the city of Los Angeles. The LA market is the perfect place to bring in revenue for the NFL as, for the last 20 years, LA has had only the Lakers and Clippers in basketball and the Kings in hockey. Football fans have had to rely primarily on the USC Trojans past success as their pro football team. The only problem was that the Trojans are still only a college football team, and not an NFL team. There were no professional athletes playing on Sunday, and no chance of a Super Bowl title coming to LA.

Rams owner Stan Kroenke stated in a press conference that it was not an easy move to relocate the team from St. Louis to LA, but it was the right time to do it.

“We understand the emotions involved with our fans,” said Kroenke in a press conference regarding the move. “It’s not easy to do these things. It’s purposefully made hard.”

As an avid football fan myself, I am happy that Southern Californian’s will have a football team to cheer for. Los Angeles is the perfect market for a football team because of the celebrities who will generate such a buzz when they show up to games, and for all of the fans, past and present, who will now have a professional football team to cheer for.

Another benefit of the move to LA is that the building of a new stadium on the site of the Hollywood Park Racetrack will create new jobs for a lot of people who need them.

In an article published by dailynews.com, a spokesperson for the Hollywood Park area was quoted on how many new jobs would be created.

“The entire project will create a total of 40,000 jobs counting construction and ongoing operations,” he said.

Even with our economy on the rise again, it can never hurt to create more jobs, especially when the stadium will be built in a community that over the past has a track record of having a bad stigma surrounding the name Inglewood.

People here on Moorpark College’s campus have even been excited about the move of the Rams back to LA.

Twenty-one-year old journalism major Ivan Corona-Ramirez loves that the Rams will be returning.

“The Rams have been my second favorite team since I was a kid,” said Corona-Ramirez. “So it’s perfect that they moved to LA!”

News of the Rams coming back also has delighted the likes of Moorpark College Athletic Director Howard Davis.

“I think it’s great the Rams are returning to LA,” said Davis. “LA needed to get an NFL team here, so I’m glad it’s finally happening.”

The Los Angeles Rams will begin their 2016 campaign in the Coliseum where USC plays. Their new stadium in Inglewood is expected to be completed by 2019.