Nobody in LA wanted the Chargers. LA can barely support one team as is. It's just not a football town and the fans don't care unless they're winning.
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Yup, LA barely wants the Rams. San Diego got a lot of shit for not wanting the Chargers but it wasn't that they didn't have diehards, it's that the diehards weren't luxury box types. Most of the Chargers fans I ran into were working class Mexican dudes the team had little interest in courting
aug 13, 2025, 10:24 pm • 1 0 • view
LA barely want Rams? That’s not true at all. I live here and see more Rams gear around town than any other team by far. We are really tired of that narrative. The issue for fans of the Rams in this city is ticket prices. PERIOD. When priced reasonably for the non marquee teams SoFi is 90% Rams fans.
aug 13, 2025, 10:45 pm • 0 0 • view
The issue for the Rams fans who own those seats is factoring in the cost for their seat license along with season ticket prices making Rams games at SoFi one of the most expensive tickets in the league. So the fans sell to recoup costs. The Chargers can’t get a home game no matter who they play.
aug 13, 2025, 10:45 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm not far from LA and comfortably in it in terms of a TV market and I simply do not see Rams gear or games on at bars. The Dodgers and Lakers are everywhere but as someone who grew up in a football market where the city shuts down because the game is on , LA just isn't one.
aug 13, 2025, 10:52 pm • 1 0 • view
Don’t know what bars you are going to, but disagree with ya there too. Are the Rams on the level of Lakers/Dodgers in terms of fandom. Of course not. But to say they there isn’t an ever growing fan base for that team is simply incorrect. I live in the heart of LA and you are not seeing what I see.
aug 13, 2025, 10:56 pm • 0 0 • view
I dunno man, being the 3rd franchise in any city isn't gonna earn you the title of 'football town'
aug 13, 2025, 11:01 pm • 1 0 • view
Never said LA was a football town. That’s not the discussion. The only time LA was a “football town” was when the Rams initially moved here from Cleveland in the 1940’s and were the only professional sports team in Los Angeles. It’s always been Lakers/Dodgers first. No debate there.
aug 13, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view
That's the metric the rest of the country is judging the Rams on tho. When people say LA doesn't care about football, they're comparing it to markets who do.
aug 13, 2025, 11:08 pm • 2 0 • view
Which is a little unfair considering the size of Los Angeles compared to the other smaller markets where all they have is their NFL team and nothing else in many of them.
aug 13, 2025, 11:11 pm • 0 0 • view
Can't think of a market where there's only one team and it's NFL off the top of my head, other than Jacksonville. Even Buffalo has the Sabres, for what that's worth. So that's not really an excuse. For football, LA is fairweather. No idea why, but it's been that way my whole life.
aug 14, 2025, 12:42 am • 0 0 • view
I don't blame it on "fair-weather" anything. The NFL is a different beast no matter what city you are in. Plenty of big marquee teams get run over by other marquee team's fans in their own building all the time.
aug 14, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
Sorry, should clarify by saying not just one pro sports team but “small market.” Green Bay, Buffalo, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Tennessee, Pittsburgh...NFL is the main draw in each of those cities.
aug 14, 2025, 1:43 am • 0 0 • view
Everybody in LA is a Raiders fan which makes no sense to me at all but whatever I don’t live there any more.
aug 13, 2025, 10:54 pm • 1 0 • view
Yea, that shit is so weird. I have more conversations about football with Raiders fans than anyone else here
aug 13, 2025, 10:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The Raiders should have been the team to move to LA and the Chargers to Vegas. They got it wrong when they did that move. Now they have 2 teams with no fans when they could have just kept it at 1 team with no fans.
aug 13, 2025, 10:58 pm • 1 0 • view
Wrong on the Rams bro. Again, getting tired of this BS narrative.
aug 13, 2025, 11:00 pm • 0 0 • view
I’m not disagreeing with you I meant the NFL has two teams with no fans now the Chargers and Raiders. Had the Raiders moved to LA they’d only have 1 team with no fans that being the Chargers in Vegas. But the Rams might even be 4th place behind the Kings as far as the LA Fandom goes.
aug 13, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
Again, that’s simply not true. It all comes down to ticket prices and what you are all seeing in the media and on Sundays. Rams tickets are ridiculously expensive and prices out the local fan base. Do yourself a favor a just pull up the Rams Chiefs game at the LA Coliseum from 2018.
aug 13, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
That game had cheap tickets because of the last minute move to LA from Mexico City. Game was sold out. 97k fans, mostly Rams fans. Then tell me again there are no Rams fans in LA.
aug 13, 2025, 11:10 pm • 0 0 • view
Vegas does not seem to give a shit about the Raiders. Against all odds, hockey seems to be king when I talk to the locals there
aug 13, 2025, 11:02 pm • 0 0 • view
The NBA is backpedaling on expansion there now. They know what’s up
aug 13, 2025, 11:04 pm • 0 0 • view