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Originally Posted by suzzer99
You guys really think the league wants to see an AFC championship game in a 35k seat stadium?
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They want to sell potential new LA fans on a winner. Do you really think anyone in LA is going to buy seat licenses for a perennial 7-9 team that hasn't been to the playoffs in 5 years...they already have another team with history in the city.
This game, tonight, was about marketing...getting people interested in the Chargers. They used the last two nationally televised Chargers games to this end. Both were draped in controversy. Now they will ramp up the "They just slayed the Dragon" ..."beat the NFL MVP"...and what other horseshit headlines they can concoct this week.
Like I said..they think the average NFL fan is a fool.
I've been saying for weeks this is a last ditch effort by the NFL...they are extremely worried about the Chargers surviving in LA. Spanos dumping them in a place where nobody cares really put them in a tough spot.
Unfortunately, the Chiefs are the same division...so even with PMII, they are a sacrificial lamb. LA market is priority #1...trumps everything else.