Los Angeles has had three NFL teams, and they lost them.
The excuse was there are too many things going on in “LA” to sell out NFL games. That’s why the Rams and the Raiders left.
I understand the new stadium for the Chargers, but why move it from a city where they are popular to a city that has lost three NFL teams?
The owners are doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.
It wasn’t ‘too many things going on’ in LA that was the problem. LA is a third world country. NFL is uniquely American. No mystery. Soccer and cricket fans aren’t much interested.
The league may be just thinking of this as a kind of television studio.
I’m not sure where you’re getting your facts, but LA never had three NFL teams. There were only two- the Rams and The Raiders.
The reason the Raiders left was the Coliseum Commission, which is about the worst of the worst when it comes to government bodies, since it represents city, county, AND state interests. The fact is that Raider attendance was better in LA than in Oakland after the team’s return to the Bay Area. It’s sunk so low in Oakland that they’ve had the smallest crowds since the early NFL days.
The Rams left LA because the Coli Commission too. They left Anaheim because of Georgia Fronteriere, who never put a dime into trying to field a good team and was able to get the City of St Louis to bend the taxpayers over to get the team to move. She was originally from Missouri too. Attendance in St Louis has fallen too as the team slid back into mediocrity.