and the population of Los Angeles is well over 12 million.
on the other hand, Lambeau Field seats about 80,000 and the population of Green Bay is only about 100,000.
First preseason game:
Posted on 09/15/2017 8:42:28 PM PDT by 11th_VA
If NFL fans in Los Angeles are excited about the Rams this year, they have a funny way of showing it. The L.A. Coliseum looked nearly empty for the team's home opener against the Colts on Sunday, and let's just say that everyone watching at home seemed to notice.
When the game kicked off, former Colts punter Pat McAfee was one of the first people to point out how empty the stadium looked.
Not even the lure of a $6 ticket was enough to get Rams fans to the game. That's right, all you needed was six dollars to attend Sunday's game, and even that wasn't enough to get fans through the doors...
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Good point. LA has a much larger population base to draw from. So even if a half full coliseum has 45-50,000 people, that is really small considering the size of the metropolitan area they play in.
try wearing a Devils sweater to a Flyers game in Phila..
Thank you! Been to a few games in Seattle and have always witnessed oppossing fans treated with respect and camaraderie! Even have video of it! You’re right though try it in Philly or Oakland!!
There needs to be a law to force people to buy tickets and attend!
Is John Roberts still on the Supreme Court?.....................
That’s the Coliseum.
On my second season of not watching, only mildly interested in case some team that does not tolerate that crap starts doing well.
There's currently one NFL team that stands head and shoulders above the rest, and that is Jerry Jones' Dallas Cowboys. It would be nice to see a few other owners and coaches make such "politically incorrect" stands:
Jerry Jones: Cowboys Will Stand For The Flag Or “Your Ass Will Be Off The Team”
That sort of attitude is the kind of thing that can save the NFL by steering it away from its current cowardly and suicidal course of action of letting the inmates run the asylum—which is alienating millions of fans and costing the league millions of dollars—and returning the league to its proud tradition of unabashed patriotism, which is clearly the overwhelming sentiment of the fan base.
It was a clear exaggeration. Why do you need to make multiple post out of a none issue?
That’s what I was going to say.
The kneeling is part of It. I think, a bigger part is: the NFL hasn’t been in Los Angeles for a long time. People there have ZERO affinity for this team. A new generation of people have found better things to do in LA. That was the reason the teams left LA in the first place.
This RAMS team isn’t much to like anyway. In St Louis, they supported the BLM movement after Ferguson. They’re a bad team. Why should anyone pay good money to go see them? A $6 ticket ? Yea. But parking was probably $35, and a beer would be $10-12. No thanks
And Mexicans don't like American football. Why, why, WHY did the NFL think going back to LA, with TWO teams, no less, was a good idea?
I went to the Rose Bowl and watched a TN-UCLA game. On the way out a bunch of kids jumped in the bed of my truck and without my knowledge were picking up the cones.
I had 8 cones in my truck when I got to the hotel.
TN Won 1989 I think. Old School stuff. Majors vs Donahue
Cheapest Packer tickets:
End zone seats – $52 for preseason, $102 for regular season
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lol.
My sister lived in Pasadena and her daughter played her soccer games on that same field.
Those kids were locals BTW and pro-UCLA.
I took them two blocks and they all bailed.
(My Rocky Top music was Blaring)
On Nov. 8, 1974 — 40 years ago this Saturday - the two-time defending state champion Banks Jets met their eastern Birmingham rivals the Woodlawn Colonels in front of what was then and remains today the biggest crowd to ever watch a high school football game in Alabama.
They came out in such numbers that the start of the game had to be delayed twice so folks could work their way through the jammed Legion Field turnstiles. And when the game finally did kick off a half-hour or so later, the crowd kept pouring in well into the second quarter.
From his perch in the press box, Birmingham News sportswriter Wayne Martin could see the pedestrian bottleneck at the south entrance of Legion Field, as well as an unbroken strand of headlights from the long line of cars on Graymont Avenue, which was backed up all the way to downtown.
“We just sat up there and watched,” Martin, now retired, recalls. “People drove up, saw the lines outside and just went on by. If all of the gates had been open, they would have had 60,000 people.”
The final count was an estimated 42,000 people.
I have a wonderful memory of that one. To much to print.
Pasadena was most welcome and I most insured my Buckeye traveler he was in for a treat.
UCLA -10
TN 24 UCLA 6
We have a small one against the gators in gainsville tm.
What do you think?
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