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If two teams move to LA then there should be a 25,000 seat stadium they can use so it looks like a big crowd sellout. The NFL has capped its organic growth and has real problems with fan support in Jacksonville, Tampa Bay, and other sites. That is why they look lustfully at London, Mexico City, Tokyo etc but I don’t see that ever working. Maybe the NFL needs to downsize instead of upsize. As for Cleveland, Art Modell gave them a really raw deal, in part to settle his gambling debts as I have heard. Same with the old Baltimore Colts of Unitas fame. The effeminate media including the networks and ESPN are also degrading the NFL product. Many would turn it into touch football if they could.

I don't see London or Tokyo working out-- too far to travel. But they seem to want to try it. I do believe that if the league lets the Chargers into LA with another team (Raiders or Rams) they will become the town joke, and no one will go to their games or root for them. You are right, the stadium will be empty. It doesn't help that the team has such lousy management, and the Chargers are not going to be good anytime in the next 4 or 5 years. Too many pieces of the puzzle that have to be added to even get into the playoffs. And Rivers is on the downhill slope, so they don't have time to put together a team he can carry. It will be ugly in LA for them.

It was a shame that Cleveland and Baltimore left. The league does a better job now of controlling the process, but they are not managing the LA market very well. Politics between the owners is dictating who gets to do what, instead of what is best for the product that the league tries to sell.