The fact the San Diego Chargers barely moved the needle with their desperate move to Los Angeles, when STAYING in San Diego would’ve actually made them MORE valuable! But because one owner so desperately wanted to “be L.A.” we all have watch his team play 17 road games every season.
That was what jumped out at me the most. I guess SoFi is a destination and other fanbases' money spends the same.
It's hard to express how completely Spanos nuked any good will towards the Chargers in Southern California. To LA, they'll always be an SD team, to SD, they're radioactive and everyone living in the suburbs between the 2 just bandwagons on whoever is winning. No real diehard fanbase at all.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
I dunno man, being the 3rd franchise in any city isn't gonna earn you the title of 'football town'
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.
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.
Everybody in LA is a Raiders fan which makes no sense to me at all but whatever I don’t live there any more.
Yea, that shit is so weird. I have more conversations about football with Raiders fans than anyone else here
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.
Wrong on the Rams bro. Again, getting tired of this BS narrative.
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
Can confirm that I converted a lot of former Charger fans to Bills fans after they moved tho!
I remember you from the old Twitter days Bernie. Good to see you here on BlueSky!
It took me a long time, but I finally got my husband mostly converted. He moved here from SD in 2009. They were dead to him the moment the move went through. Now he has a shirt that says "Married Into This", is debating buying a charging potato hat, and his fantasy team name is Room 40.