Posted on 01/27/2022 1:50:58 PM PST by nickcarraway
After combing over the ticket resale market, numbers suggest the 49ers will have more fans attending the team’s NFC Championship Game at SoFi Stadium on Sunday against the Rams.
The Los Angeles Times reported that ticket resale site Vivid Seats is estimating 65 percent of fans in attendance at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles will be 49ers fans. The Rams and 49ers recently played in a Week 18 matchup at SoFi Stadium, in which Los Angeles had to use silent counts at home due to the crowd noise from 9ers fans.
"I'm not going to lie, I've never seen so many of the opposing team's fans at a game," Matthew Stafford's wife, Kelly Stafford said after the Rams-49ers Week 18 match-up. "And we came from Detroit and there were a lot of good-traveling teams there, but that was wild. It was crazy. I mean, again, I've never seen anything like that, but it made it very hard for us because I guess we weren't expecting to be on silent count."
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Don’t care one little bit.....
I wonder if those numbers are accurate.
Los Angeles vs San Fransicko. Can both lose somehow?
Although their rivalry with the 49ers is one of the best in football history, it isn't hard to imagine fan loyalty isn't a strong suit.
It’s a game about yardage. Might as well go to a sewing competition.
Actually the Cleveland Rams were an NFL team, and a good one at that. The Browns were the powerhouse of the All American Conference, displaced the Rams. The Rams decamped for LA and left Cleveland to the Browns, who promptly won the NFL in their first year.
I wonder if the world really exists or if I’m having a nightmare.
When the Yankees play the Rays at the Trop, it might as well be a Bronx home game. I feel your pain
ESPN Numbers since moving to LA
Attendance. . . . . . Home. . . . . . . . .
RK. . . TEAM. . . GMS. . . TOTAL. . . AVG. . . PCT
2021 . . . Los Angeles . . . 9. . . 632,160. . . 70,240. . . 98.20
2020 . . . Los Angeles . . . 8. . . -. . . -. . . -
2019 . . . Los Angeles . . . 7. . . 498,605. . . 71,229. . . 92.8
2018 . . . Los Angeles . . . 8. . . 579,439. . . 72,429. . . 77.4
2017 . . . Los Angeles . . . 8. . . 507,136. . . 63,392. . . 67.7
2016 . . . Los Angeles . . . 8. . . 456,197. . . 57,024. . . 80
I will take it a step further and say that LA in general is not a strong sports area. Some caveats to that:
Before I get to that though I am originally from LA, left there when I was 40 years old. I'm still a Dodger, Lakers and USC fan. I saw Koufax pitch at the Coliseum, had season tickets to the Lakers and USC. I have also been to the World Series twice at Dodger Stadium. I don't know how many times I have been to Dodger stadium, but it is likely around 40-50.
Now about those caveats:
1) LA loves a winner, and remains loyal to a team taht wins. Case in point: USC after Pete Carrol left, or before he got there.
2) Population base: 12-15 million live within 50 miles of downtown LA. If LA was a strong sports city like Boston, Chicago, Green Bay and others, tickets would be far more difficult to get.
3) Over saturation: Two NFL teams, Two MLB TeamsTwo NBA teams, Two Hockey teams, Plus UCLA Plus USC
4) Too many 'foreigners' -- LA is full of people from out of state with loyalty to the original hometown team. You go to a Cubs, or Bulls, or Red Sox or Yankees or many other team games, it seems 25% of the people are wearing the visitors' colors. Other teams the draw is not as strong.
5) Too many distractions -- The beach the mountains, Disneyland, Universal studios and more. Jack Kent Cook was once asked why the LA Kings did not draw well in LA when there is a half million Canadians living in LA. His response was classic:
Take a look at the cities, those with much smaller population bases, that annually out draw the Rams in LA: Dallas, Green Bay, Kansas City, Denver, Atlanta, Baltimore.
The Browns, not the Rams were in the AAFC. The Cleveland Rams won the NFL championship in 1945 before heading west, NOT because the AAFC Browns were just getting started. The Rams were in the NFL in the ‘30s, before there was a AAFC. Long live Waterfield/Van Brocklin/Crazy Legs Hirsch!
For a few years there were a bunch in the St Louis area.
Same story when the Red Sox play the Rays
Lions games always have more Packers & Bears fans year after year.
However it’s almost always a sellout, and we all have a good time.
This weekend’s match ups should be good.
The Rams have been really good the last 5 years.
Yes, but the Lions are almost always a sad sack team, so that explains that.
More proof Los Angeles doesn’t deserve a football team. That the city has become a violent hellhole is another good reason it doesn’t.
Bread and Circus.
But my point remains; abandoning LA three or four times can't do much to endure your fan base. Whereas being a Lions fan and Detroiter since 1957 I've been saying for over twenty years, when the Lions move to Anchorage Alaska they'll win their first Super Bowl. We'll be left behind to root for the Bears, Packers or Vikings. For crying out loud!!!
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