Looks like a little extra time playing on USC's schedule.
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sdog1981":1i51661p said:The best part is the Chargers playing in the soccer stadium when they could still be playing in San Diego.
Yup, I imagine the Chargers brass isn't all that enthused about the situation right now. It's not like these organizations get rich off of ticket sales, but I imagine they're going to be cutting that revenue in half until they're set up shop in a proper stadium.hawkfan68":3g1jfuv0 said:sdog1981":3g1jfuv0 said:The best part is the Chargers playing in the soccer stadium when they could still be playing in San Diego.
This doesn't make sense at all...they can't use the Rose Bowl or the LA Coliseum? Why play in a stadium that only seats 27,000 - 30,000 max. If they can't sell out games at that stadium that would really bad...should've just stayed in SD. They could always move to Oakland...
FlyHawksFly":306um3ub said:HawkGA":306um3ub said:Well, it's not like the Rams are strangers to LA . . . .
Yeah, what a strange comment. I have to remind myself all the time that we have a younger generation of fans.
JGfromtheNW":yb7o6q46 said:Of course they're not strangers to LA, but they were gone for 20 years and from what I remember LA fans were pretty upset about losing the Rams to St. Louis; not to mention it's widely cited that the Rams didn't have a very good fan base before Georgia Fronteire moved the team. 20 years and that's an entire generation of fans that likely decided they'd root for SD, OAK or SF, plus all of the estranged fans that won't give the Rams franchise the time of day because of what happened in the 90's. I imagine the majority of fans in the St. Louis area aren't going to be following the Rams organization halfway across the country... meanwhile fans who care to stay loyal to the Chargers are located *gaaaaasp* within a few hours of driving. Granted, they're going to lose some fans, but it's going to be nowhere near the level of abandonment that the Rams franchise has faced over the last three decades.
I think the Chargers are going to, maybe unexpectedly, have the better hold of the LA market. I don't know enough Chargers/Rams fans or pay that much attention to the overall sentiments down there, but it's something that wouldn't surprise me in the least.
Thanks for the insight.FlyHawksFly":1f9y2em6 said:There were still a ton of Rams fans in the LA area, their move was definitely less of a fiasco than the Chargers move. I think you underestimate how many people HATE the Spanish family, on top of the Chargers have one of the smaller fan bases to begin with. The ONLY hope Chargers have is if they become a dominant team, which looking at their front office and roster is probably a long shot.
mikeak":18vxf7o5 said:Lol - lost the Super Bowl to tampa now
Bigpumpkin":2zd69cr7 said:mikeak":2zd69cr7 said:Lol - lost the Super Bowl to tampa now
What a pile of feces! We've never had a Super Bowl.....and they grant it to Tampa Bay?
FlyHawksFly":3g6monqm said:mikeak":3g6monqm said:Bigpumpkin":3g6monqm said:mikeak":3g6monqm said:Lol - lost the Super Bowl to tampa now
What a pile of feces! We've never had a Super Bowl.....and they grant it to Tampa Bay?
Seattle doesn't meet the weather requirement (can't be fixed but can be waived) nor the seat requirement (could be fixed)
There was also concern about having enough hotel space for the influx of people.
mikeak":38zrph30 said:^ Jacksonville brought in multiple cruise ships to fix that problem. Couldn't Seattle do the same?
JGfromtheNW":1rulapne said:I think I was having some revisionist history and correlating the Rams' attendance/popularity based off of hearing they were getting poor TV ratings last season. After doing some reading on the Rams last season, they actually had the second highest attendance in the league (granted, the Coliseum holds like 93K or something like that).
Add to that how consistently bad the Rams org. has been over the last decade and I figured they would be LA's red-headed-sports-step-child. I'm genuinely interested to see how the LA market shakes out, though. I don't have any type of rooting interest, but I'll admit that I'll root for the Chargers over the Rams as long as they're in our division.
RiverDog":ytccp7gm said:JGfromtheNW":ytccp7gm said:I think I was having some revisionist history and correlating the Rams' attendance/popularity based off of hearing they were getting poor TV ratings last season. After doing some reading on the Rams last season, they actually had the second highest attendance in the league (granted, the Coliseum holds like 93K or something like that).
Add to that how consistently bad the Rams org. has been over the last decade and I figured they would be LA's red-headed-sports-step-child. I'm genuinely interested to see how the LA market shakes out, though. I don't have any type of rooting interest, but I'll admit that I'll root for the Chargers over the Rams as long as they're in our division.
The Rams were one of only two teams to have less than 90% capacity for their home games, the other being the LA bound Chargers. Besides, the name of the game isn't attendance, it's television ratings, especially in the Rams' case as they operate in the country's 2nd largest TV market, and the Rams ratings for their first season were disappointing to say the least. Their ratings were better when they played a couple of lame duck seasons in St. Louis.
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