Posted on 02/08/2011 8:07:14 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
“The Los Angeles Drag Queens”?
Um football sucks. I live in LA and no one misses it. Look at the kids that are 12-16 do they give a crap? NOPE. Useless.
A lot.
I'd vote for none of the above.
How about San Antonio? The mascot doesn't really fit though.
Most people that live here pay little or no attention to that garbage...It's for easily impressed tourist.
If ya like watching football fine...But it's not important as you seemed suggested buckey. There are much better things to do. You should get off the couch and get out more bucky.
Sacramento? Portland? Salt Lake City? Seriously, yes I get your point. The market is becoming saturated.
Don’t bring Brett, Okay!
Then what is there to do? Southern California has always struck me as pretty but an absolute liberal cesspool. Southern Californians have always struck me as incredibly self-absorbed and from your posts, you strike me as being no different. Unlike your state, my state threw the dems out on their ass.
If football sucks so much and people care so little about it, why have the last two Super Bowls been the most watched television programs in American history?
Great picture. Those guys were in shape...
Important? Football? I'm a fan, played the game for many years, and I would use many terms to describe football. But, I don't think "important" ever crossed my mind.
Just because people may watch it, does that mean it is followed as it was 25 years ago? Sports have become businesses. How do they base their add revenue? By the number of people watching. What happened when newspapers were finally brought to task on their real circulation and readership numbers? Ad revenue plummeted. The super bowl is not about bringing 2 teams together, its about creating an expectation of viewers so add sales can be driven. I just dont think it has the pull as it did before.
In reality, its a boring game. Think about it, LA is the largest media market in the world, and we have been without a football team for 15 years. How do you explain that? Here in southern california we have millions of things we are involved in, rather than to give our time, money and attention to a sports team. I mean seriously, fan loyalty is a contrived marketing gimmick. That team is not “loyal” to you, it doesn’t give a crap how you feel about them, just buy their stuff. You don’t own a piece of the team. You have no impactful say in who gets traded where, or how some dope performs or doesnt, regardless how much you talk about it with your buddies. I mean really at the end of the day, what does it possibly matter?.... It doesn’t. It has all be created as an illusion of importance. Marketing baby.
Just because people may watch it, does that mean it is followed as it was 25 years ago? Sports have become businesses. How do they base their add revenue? By the number of people watching. What happened when newspapers were finally brought to task on their real circulation and readership numbers? Ad revenue plummeted. The super bowl is not about bringing 2 teams together, its about creating an expectation of viewers so add sales can be driven. I just dont think it has the pull as it did before.
In reality, its a boring game. Think about it, LA is the largest media market in the world, and we have been without a football team for 15 years. How do you explain that? Here in southern california we have millions of things we are involved in, rather than to give our time, money and attention to a sports team. I mean seriously, fan loyalty is a contrived marketing gimmick. That team is not “loyal” to you, it doesn’t give a crap how you feel about them, just buy their stuff. You don’t own a piece of the team. You have no impactful say in who gets traded where, or how some dope performs or doesnt, regardless how much you talk about it with your buddies. I mean really at the end of the day, what does it possibly matter?.... It doesn’t. It has all be created as an illusion of importance. Marketing baby.
And yet now they're officially called the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
The other posters are correct, Californian don't care about pro sports teams unless they're winners. Even then we're a jaded lot.
1980 Sid: “You have to have a domed stadium in this market, no one will go to games outside when it’s 40 degrees.”
2005 Sid: “Why are they(the Twins) playing indoors? Baseball was meant to be played outside.”
This dinosaur is a panderer to his uber-rich buddies’ whims.
1980 Sid: You have to have a domed stadium in this market, no one will go to games outside when it’s 40 degrees.
2005 Sid: Why are they(the Twins) playing indoors? Baseball was meant to be played outside.
This dinosaur is a panderer to his uber-rich buddies’ whims.
A few years ago this would have concerned me, since an L.A. team would soak up game coverage on Southern California TV stations. Whereas without a team, I got to see a lot of Green Bay Packers games. Now, with NFL Sunday Ticket on Direct TV, I get to see all the Packers games no matter what.
Of course I’ll still get hosed as a taxpayer if Los Angeles ponies up for a stadium. Not directly, since I live just outside of L.A. County, but one way or another they’ll shift some of the burden onto the state government and hence onto all taxpayers in the state.
My solution is to send the MN. Legislature to play in L.A.
That way, there would be enough money left in MN. to build a hundred stadiums, race tracks, boat harbors, etc.
Interestingly, LA--which had its last snowstorm in 1949--has two ice hockey teams.
It wasn't always that way. You may recall that in 1964, California Republicans put Barry Goldwater over the top in his bid to be the party's presidential standard-bearer, and it was Southern California that provided him the margin. In the 1960's and 1970's, Los Angeles mayor Sam Yorty was perhaps the most conservative big city mayor in the country. And in 1982, George Deukmejian, a conservative Republican from Long Beach, won two terms as governor.
Although economic and demographic change--especially the influx of illegal aliens--has weakened the conservatives and the Republicans, we still have a potent tea party movement, and conservatives have scored some notable successes down-ballot.
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