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The most shocking headline you'll see all year.
http://deadspin.com/los-angeles-does...ers-1818503650
Los Angeles Doesn't Care About The Chargers Barry Petchesky Yesterday 9:07am Sunday saw the return of the Los Angeles Chargers, their first home game since 1960, and no one’s very excited about it. New and relocated teams usually get a first-year attendance bump, just from the novelty. The Chargers are a good team with an offense that’s fun to watch. Their temporary home, a soccer-specific stadium, is intimate and unique. There are plenty of reasons the Chargers might draw a good crowd. None of those reasons, apparently, are enough to overcome the hard realties of deep, deep disinterest:
A stadium that seats 27,000 couldn’t sell out, drawing an officially (generously) announced crowd of 25,381 for a 19-17 loss to the Dolphins. Making that attendance figure even sadder is that half of paying fans weren’t there to see the Chargers. “There were a lot of Miami fans out there,” Melvin Gordon said. “I think it was around 50-50.” Including, perhaps, the person in charge of setting off the cannon after Chargers scores. Listen for the boom as Younghoe Koo missed a 44-yarder that would’ve won the game:
You’ll also hear a lot of cheers in that video. Those are the Dolphins fans, and they confused Philip Rivers all afternoon: Quote:
Let’s be clear: None of this is an indictment of those Chargers fans that exist or of Angelenos. You’re under no obligations to go to games, and considering how much better television is than the live NFL experience, the incentives are already slim. The NFL is a business, and if people aren’t consuming a product, that’s a sign of a failure of the company to offer a product people want to consume. And, potentially, a fatal misread of the market. Could it be possible, after the NFL spent decades using Los Angeles as a threat to strong-arm cities into building stadiums to keep their teams, that Los Angeles didn’t actually want its own team, let alone two? It’s still very early, but:
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09-19-2017, 01:10 PM | #2 |
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I kind of hope both the Rams and Chargers fail miserably and are looking for a new home in 5 years.
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I don't know how they didn't see this coming.
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09-19-2017, 01:14 PM | #4 |
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One thing to be clear about, though, the $100 parking thing is overblown. They have a more distant lot that is only $40, and they offer free shuttles from nearby where you can park for nothing.
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09-19-2017, 01:16 PM | #5 |
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even the mayor was like "meh, would have been cool with just 1 team."
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The owner I fly for is seriously trying to buy an NFL franchise. Would be interesting to see if he goes after the chargers, since we're in Napa and SoCal all the time anyway. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk |
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09-19-2017, 01:22 PM | #8 | |
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They left a city that was lukewarm about them to go to a huge market that has a history with them. Instead of begging for public funding, they're going to fork over their own money to build a stadium, and from the looks of it, it's going to be the nicest one in the league (until that Vegas one theoretically gets built). They've put a fair amount of effort into branding and messaging. And their team is pretty well coached and has the key pieces in place for a swift rebuild. The Chargers didn't even think it through. All the way down to their logo this was just corporate and mindless. LA doesn't give two shits about this team and never has, and that's going to get even worse when the Chargers ask the public for money on a stadium. They may have to pay the Rams for rent. |
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09-19-2017, 01:23 PM | #9 |
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I think they'll probably be fine in another twenty years or so.
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09-19-2017, 01:26 PM | #10 |
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I thought that Los Angeles made it clear decades ago that they're not much of a football town.
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09-19-2017, 01:30 PM | #12 |
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09-19-2017, 01:38 PM | #13 |
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Chargers should consider a rebrand like the Oilers did when they moved to Nashville.
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