Posted on 09/15/2017 8:42:28 PM PDT by 11th_VA
Bring back the USFL!
Football is a horrible market for Los Angeles. I don't care if they are the 2nd largest media market in the nation.
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has a seating capacity of 93,000. Been there many times and it is a big, big stadium.
Looks like some of the MLB stadiums in recent years.
Of course, the MLB has a lot more weekday games, so presumably, people are at work. But, many stadiums have many vacant seats even at night and weekend games.
Maybe, it is just better viewing at home or at a sports bar with a big widescreen to watch, instead of fighting the crowd and traffic, etc.
uh, it’s the rose bowl. capacity is about 100,000. that’s just an unintelligent thing to say.
The “Supply and Demand Law” has a funny way of exposing it self....
And being disarmed and searched without warrant.
Can’t put that down to lack of interest in football in LA - that same Coliseum was packed the night before for USC - Stanford. Way to ruin a good thing, NFL.
Wow, that is thin attendance!
Why spend six bucks on a game when you can go to church and watch people kneel for free?
USC is still the only professional football team in LA. ;o)
The NFL can count on me not being there. They can also count on me not watching their games. They’ll soon realize they need to get control of their thugs.
Play more games overseas.
It’s the ‘new normal’ thingy. ;-)
The 9ers suffer from an overheating effect in their new stadium, one more good use for asbestos undies.
One side of the stadium with no shade cooks fans..
Having a team that Jed built doesn’t help either.
San Diego was a football town. When the Chargers moved to LA, they moved away from their now-angry base to a city where they had no fans. The Chargers are playing in a soccer stadium that only seats 27,000 and they can’t fill that.
Hint: the Coliseum and Jerry’s stadium in Arlington each seat just under 100,000.
Coliseum seating is a problem for the Rams, too. They have been historically unable to get SRO at the Coliseum so that it always looked like it was under-attended. The NFL may have made a mistake in letting the LA market remain without a team as long as they did. People may have lost interest and found other pursuits.
The LA revolving door of the Raiders, Chargers, and Rams doesn’t make for long-time fans. The Green Bay Packers have a decades long waiting line for season ticket and the Dallas Cowboys ratings for the first game were better than last year. A national decline in football viewership has a lot of reasons with the chia-headed baboon dissing the anthem just one factor.
You lost me at, “San Diego was a football town.”
IMO LA can support two teams. BUT if you lose the fans will bail and forget new fans which is what they chargers needed.
Also it’s better to be in Anaheim then near the other team and have separate identity. SD fans can get to Anaheim easy. Many people from SD have a visceral response to driving to LA. So don’t tell them they have to go to Carson or Inglewatts. the way they did this I would suspect few from SD are making the trip to see them this year.;
My heart bleeds.............HaHaHaHaHaHa....But do you really think the league knows what the problem is—or do they care?
The Chargers seemed to have plenty of support in SD, but I live in Florida, and will take your word for it.
SD had a long tradition of the CSUSD Aztecs since the late 60s. That was winning tradition. The chargers had strong teams on and off. for the size i would say it was a good football town. I went to 9 Aztec games in the early 70s when Dennis Shaw was throwing 7 touchdown passes in a game and thew stadium was filled. It was called AirCoryell.
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