 Eventually, Puget Sound resident Paul Allen bought the team and kept it in Seattle.Public funds were used to build Seahawks Stadium, now known as CenturyLink Field.Perhaps the closest Los Angeles came to regaining the NFL during this period was in 1999, when the NFL approved a new franchise, the league's 32nd, for Los Angeles, in March on the condition that the city and NFL agree on a stadium site and stadium financing by September 15, 1999.