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Old 09-19-2017, 01:08 PM  
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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:

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“I heard the roar before I saw the official’s signal,” Rivers said. “I wasn’t sure which roar it was.”
Well, and why not? The Chargers have done everything in their power to alienate their old fan base (a plane towed a banner over the stadium calling Dean Spanos the worst owner in sports), and little to cultivate a new fan base. They fled San Diego three full seasons before their new stadium will be ready, and in the meantime they’re charging $100 for parking. They’re already second fiddle in their new city, a subordination that will be even more marked once they move in with the Rams. Philip Rivers said the team needs to win and it’ll see better attendance, but Los Angeles isn’t exactly tabula rasa for fandom. There are a lot of people from all over, with their own rooting interests, and a strong strain of Raiders fandom runs through the city, and any fans excited for a new team probably jumped aboard with the Rams last year. In short, it is difficult to picture a combination of circumstances and sensibilities that would lead a person to becoming a Los Angeles Chargers fan.

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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Old 09-19-2017, 03:00 PM   #31
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The SLC metro population is 1.1 million.

I seriously doubt they could support an NFL team.
I don't think the region would be too keen on Sunday games, either.

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Yeah but a move to St. Louis isn't going to increase the value of the franchise.

Most likely, it would plummet.
I don't know how they're going to avoid a plummet beyond selling it immediately.
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Old 09-19-2017, 03:04 PM   #32
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The SLC metro population is 1.1 million.

I seriously doubt they could support an NFL team.
Who wants to play there?

It's a terrible idea.
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Old 09-19-2017, 03:05 PM   #33
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OKC has done extremely well having some of the best attendance for an NBA team. They are also a football state through and through.

I think they would be the best bet.
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Old 09-19-2017, 03:06 PM   #34
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I don't know how they're going to avoid a plummet beyond selling it immediately.
It's risen just $2 million since the move but it's still above $2 billion.
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OKC has done extremely well having some of the best attendance for an NBA team. They are also a football state through and through.

I think they would be the best bet.
I would be shocked if OKC built a $1 billion dollar plus stadium for a team like the Chargers.
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Old 09-19-2017, 03:08 PM   #36
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OKC has done extremely well having some of the best attendance for an NBA team. They are also a football state through and through.



I think they would be the best bet.


Nope. College football reigns supreme. People aren't going to give up a lifetime of family traditions to support an NFL team.


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The SLC metro population is 1.1 million.

I seriously doubt they could support an NFL team.
Meh

Green Bay has a population of 105k and is still a full two hour drive from Milwaukee.
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OKC isn't big enough. There's only 3.5 m in the whole state.


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Attendance is not good, but these kickoff pictures tell a slightly different story than the captions.

Should read: People in LA cannot get to any NFL event on time. --and then later on when they show up, whether supporting home or visiting team, the Chargers still can't quite fill a really really small stadium.

The rams will be fine eventually. No one wants to go to that stadium, but lots of people are talking about getting to the new one when it is finished.
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Jerry is definitely against San Antonio and I'm sure the Adams family would be against Memphis.

Jerry also might fight against Oklahoma City and claim that as his territory as well.

The best solution is for the Chargers to return to San Diego but if that can't happen, sharing a stadium with the 49ers makes more sense than staying in Los Angeles.
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Jerry is definitely against San Antonio and I'm sure the Adams family would be against Memphis.

Jerry also might fight against Oklahoma City and claim that as his territory as well.

The best solution is for the Chargers to return to San Diego but if that can't happen, sharing a stadium with the 49ers makes more sense than staying in Los Angeles.
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It doesn't help that both teams lost yesterday lol.

I was at the Oakland game Sunday and it was packed.
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I would be shocked if OKC built a $1 billion dollar plus stadium for a team like the Chargers.
They have some sneaky money there though. Oil guys like Harold Hamm, Clay Bennet is another billionaire, T Boone Pickens is there as well. I think if they got their resources together they would do it.

It's a long shot, but I guarantee attendance would be significantly better in OKC than SD and LA combined. That is a big football state.
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