In post 19 you said “The. Chargers started in LA.”
That’s why I said three instead of two NFL teams.
I remember seeing, on TV most games, never a full stadium for most LA Rams and Raiders games when Los Angeles was their home.
The excuse, at the time, was there is too much going on in Los Angeles. That’s why they can’t sell out most NFL games.
I do remember hearing about the old stadium. No one wanted to invest in a new stadium for teams that had trouble selling out games in the second largest city, population wise, in the U.S..
I bet the same thing will happen again. There are cities like Las Vegas, Portland, Salt Lake City, San Antonio and Oklahoma City that would love an NFL team.
The NFL needs to stick a fork in LA it’s done.
Before Jerry Jones built the new Cowboy Stadium ALL the old NFL attendance records were set by the Rams in LA. The Coliseum seated upwards of 100,000 in those days. A half full stadium would have been the same as the Raiders’ average attendance in Oakland right now.
I’m not going to go through it again because I posted the details here before, but Raider attendance in LA was HIGHER in LA than Oakland. Al Davis moved because he wanted the revenue of luxury boxes and he gave up on the Coli Commission. He never got the promised improvements in Oakland either, hence they might move back.