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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, 04:37 PM | #48 |
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We better have a good red contingent there on Sunday or I will be disappointed. I'm looking at you Dane.
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09-19-2017, 05:35 PM | #49 |
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All those empty seats will be filled with Chief fans this weekend.
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09-19-2017, 10:33 PM | #50 |
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A real tragedy that they had to move. I always enjoyed going to the games while on vacation there. The light rail drops you off right at the gate, and it was a fun SoCal and fish taco atmosphere. They could even get loud at times.
But with terrible city management, terrible franchise management, and a stadium in disrepair, all of the cards had been played. |
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It would have been easily accessible for fans from both cities, around 45 min away for most people along I35. There's enough football passion there, and the Raiders culture would've meshes well with Spurs culture. Gerald Jones be damned, they would've been fine. But I'm sure they'll do well in Las Vegas as well. |
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09-19-2017, 10:50 PM | #52 |
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They should see if New Orleans wants another team so they can repurpose that "Fight for LA" thing.
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09-19-2017, 10:59 PM | #53 |
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Raiders are already big in Vegas. Now, it seems like every other person is repping silver and black. They're going to flourish here.
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09-19-2017, 10:59 PM | #54 |
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There's too much to do in LA for people to go watch a boring game.
I guarantee you that if the Rams or Chargers become good, the city will support the teams that are worth watching. If Mahomes went to LA they would probably sell the stadium out in no time. |
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09-20-2017, 08:21 AM | #56 |
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Just throwing this out there...... London Chargers or Mexico City Chargers?
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09-20-2017, 08:32 AM | #57 |
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How many cities are there left that can support an NFL team?
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09-20-2017, 09:28 AM | #58 | |
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What about Omaha? I know, I know, low population, blah blah. But there's a LOT of money in that town and a ton of football passion in the surrounding area. Would be interesting.
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