NFL: LA Relocation thread. The Los Angeles Rams/Chargers of Inglewood

Falco Lombardi

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Nah, he'll get an extension. Fisher pulled this sort of stuff in STL for years too. Took down all things GSOT, etc.

Being in LA isn't going to change the way the franchise is run. Pretty hilarious that the Rams draw lower ratings now than they ever did in St Louis though.
 

Terry Yake

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Nah, he'll get an extension. Fisher pulled this sort of stuff in STL for years too. Took down all things GSOT, etc.

Being in LA isn't going to change the way the franchise is run. Pretty hilarious that the Rams draw lower ratings now than they ever did in St Louis though.

LA-OC fans are not going to come out in droves to support a mediocre team, it's always been that way in LA unless its the lakers or dodgers

especially when you have so many options for sports in the area. the rams are competing with the lakers, clippers, dodgers, kings, ducks, and angels. heck, you can throw USC football on that list too.

bottom line is that the rams will have to become a winning team they start seeing people flock to the games
 

Live in the Now

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People overestimate how much Stan cares about this team winning or being successful.

Exactly.

Same way people think Raider fans are all of a sudden going to be converted to one of the two teams here that we don't like. Sorry, but no. The Chargers will not be here very long.

The Rose Bowl situation isn't very good after now having gone there myself, so I can't imagine they'll sell out very many games in the interim. Nor after.
 

BattleBorn

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Didn't San Diego offer to put up a new stadium on the site of Qualcomm a few years ago. As I recall, Spanos wanted to move downtown (not that Mission Valley is that far out of downtown) and pursued that instead. A few years and we've got what we've got.

The Chargers in LA just seems weird. I realize they started there, but San Diego and the Chargers go together in my head. The Los Angeles Chargers doesn't even sound right.
 

Terry Yake

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the chargers in LA would be a disaster

at least the rams still had fans in LA from the past. you'd have a tough time finding a chargers fan in LA
 

Terry Yake

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good luck getting chargers fans to drive 2 hours to see their team play

they belong in SD
 

Voight

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good luck getting chargers fans to drive 2 hours to see their team play

they belong in SD

Where their fans don't want them.

As much as people want to say its not the publics responsibility to fund sports teams stadiums, the teams cant very easily pack it up and leave town. In SD, the public were fine with paying for most of the Padres new stadium.

Qualcomm is the third oldest stadium in the NFL, behind two historic stadiums (Soldier & Lambeau)
 

IU Hawks fan

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Oakland is actually a year older as well.

And while technically Soldier Field has been around since 1924, it's really a 15 year old stadium. They just built a stadium within the outer shell.
 

No Fun Shogun

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The path for success for the L.A. Chargers is there. Just get decent while the Rams suck and stick with Jeff Fisher for some reason.
 

Big McLargehuge

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Enough to support the team full-time, I doubt it.

Today? No...but the team would obviously gain fans here if it moved here. There's a reason the LA market has two teams in just about every sport.

Either way the Chargers are probably the third or fourth most popular team here today, so it wouldn't be as if they were starting from scratch. It's also a 2 hour drive to San Diego...obviously I don't expect a ton of Chargers fans to make that drive, but considering how few home games a team plays a season it'd be daffy to expect that there wouldn't be a chunk of San Diego-based Chargers fans that wouldn't follow the team to LA at least a couple times a year.

Nah, he'll get an extension. Fisher pulled this sort of stuff in STL for years too. Took down all things GSOT, etc.

Being in LA isn't going to change the way the franchise is run. Pretty hilarious that the Rams draw lower ratings now than they ever did in St Louis though.

Ratings don't mean a ton in this market because of how huge it is and how disparate the demographics are...the raw number of eyes on the team has undoubtedly gone up by a good deal. The Lakers & Clippers didn't even combine to get a 3 here last season (the Lakers averaged a 3.54 in 2010, a year they won their second of back-to-back championships...that looks paltry until you realize that that represented 200,000 households...or ~70,000 more households than any other NBA team).

The team being dreadfully boring to watch and being run by idiots certainly isn't helping draw in new fans, either, but you can't really compare ratings between cities that disparate in size. The Pirates get triple the ratings the Yankees do until you take market size into account...
 
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Big McLargehuge

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The Coliseum sucks, the team is as enjoyable to watch as stabbing your eyeball with a crusty Q-Tip, and the franchise value has tripled.

Kroenke got what he wanted.
 

Mightygoose

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Owners approve a lease in Inglewood should the Chargers...bolt

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp...debt-waiver-to-help-1481735878-htmlstory.html

Same article, the Owners approve a debt waiver ceiling making it easier for the Chargers to pay the relocation fee should they decide to move.

"League owners approved a waiver of the debt ceiling, allowing the Chargers to borrow a portion of that fee from a bank and pay it off over a longer period, say 30 years, as opposed to the original agreement of $65 million annually over 10 years.

The debt ceiling for a team is $250 million."

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp...debt-waiver-to-help-1481735878-htmlstory.html

Starting to sound more like a duck by the day
 

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