Yet Al Davis insists that he, not the NFL, holds the rights to the city he abandoned so long ago.
Since the idea of a motorway box inside the city was abandoned because of local opposition in the 1960s, nobody has put forward a better idea for what to do.
He flipped on the television, to catch up on some news, when he first saw them: a group of rag-tag teenage rebels who had abandoned the city for the country, living out of double-decker buses.
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Ms Bokova was impressed by the post-flood recovery works and was particularly interesting in learning about the plans for restoring the historic water management system of Ayutthaya, which had been put in place by the founders of the city but was later abandoned and covered by urban housing and street constructions.
SoHo, a Lower Manhattan neighborhood now known for its boutique shops, art galleries and loft apartments, at the time was considered a grittier locale, where abandoned storefronts dotted the city streets.
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Many Katrina refugees are not returning--the area's population has dropped by a third--and whole sections of the city may be abandoned.
More comforting for those feeling abandoned by the city during a storm is that it will soon be possible to see, via the web, exactly where Mr Emanuel's snowploughs are and what they are doing.
Residents in a road in Liverpool say they "feel abandoned" by the city council after the scrapping of a scheme to build new homes.
During the storm, he says, he used his own boat to rescue neighbors when city officials had abandoned the area.
Things went wrong when the local press revealed that the city had built false storefronts and awnings to disguise abandoned buildings.
Winn Gardens in Sheffield was one of the worst affected areas in the city, with dozens of homes having to be abandoned when the River Don flooded.
His emaciated body was found by hikers later that autumn in the rusted-out hulk of a 1946 Fairbanks City Transit bus, which had been abandoned in the woods by a work crew many years earlier after breaking its axle along a remote stretch of the trail.
Outside the city walls he found a little abandoned church, and he spent whole days there, praying.
He eventually abandoned his car in the Twerton area of the city before checking in at a bed and breakfast.
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The DUP has abandoned its campaign to have the Union flag flown every day at the Cenotaph in the grounds of Belfast City Hall.
While the city continues to struggle with high unemployment, abandoned buildings, suffering schools and lack of infrastructure, there is a new energy in these downtown neighborhoods that suggests a gradual shift.
Abandoned buildings, high unemployment and poverty continue to devastate the city.
To please officials in the city of Haicheng, close to Xiyang Village, Mr Zhou abandoned a plan to build a steel factory in the southern port of Beihai, where there would be ready access to ore shipped from Australia.
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He joined one of the city's most prominent black churches, Trinity United, and abandoned his youthful agnosticism in favour of Christianity (Trinity's Afrocentric bent, with its African visitors and women dressed in African robes, may have particularly appealed to the son of an African).
Mr Maloney started a new campaign at the end of last month in the car park of an abandoned Chinese restaurant in Waterbury, a struggling blue-collar city.
So they went up there and they discovered not only had they abandoned those positions, they had moved four miles toward the west, toward the city of Mosul ... without a shot being fired on the ground, although those positions were fairly severely bombed over the past 10 days or so.
City councillors have agreed to a more modest plan than the one that was abandoned in January following much opposition from the public.
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