LOOK: Stadium is half-empty for Colts-Rams regular season opener in Los Angeles

CBS Sports ^ | Sept 13, 2017 | John Breech

[Pride in the USA]

Amarica pushes back.

[Roccus]

IIRC, that game was blacked-out in the LA area (300 miles?) so if you lived there, the only way to see it was in person.

[TBP]

In the case of Los Angeles, I said when the teams moved back there that this would happen.

The main factor in the NFL’s overall decline is the National Anthem situation. (Other things may be contributing factors, but the anthem protests are overwhelmingly the main cause.) In LA’s case, that is exacerbated by the fact that it was and apparently remains a lousy football town.

[dfwgator]

It’s also the players, and the culture of a good number of players these days in the NFL. Yes there are exceptions, but frankly most of the players today are ghetto trash.

[hal ogen]

nfl? Really, who cares? There are many more (and better) things to do than waste your time than watching overpaid America-haters.

[JohnBrowdie]

yeah, that’s the same thing. that totally proves that all 8th grade football games in Alabana draw 50,000 fans.

I’ve obviously upset a number of alabama 8th graders.

[married21]

I looked at ticketmaster for $6.00 tickets for this weekend’s game and could not find any. Cheapest were lousy seats at about $30.00.

Our family would go to a game if tickets were six bucks. Where do we get those tickets?

[married21]

Chargers tickets start at $100.00 on the Chargers website. They deserve empty seats, for sure.

[PGR88]

greed and a `14 million fan base

14 million fan base? From the look of that crowd, the fan base is far larger in places like Buffalo and Green Bay.

[PGR88]

greed and a `14 million fan base

14 million fan base? From the look of that crowd, the fan base is far larger in places like Buffalo and Green Bay.

[dfwgator]

The Raiders are still the most popular team in LA.

[gunsequalfreedom]

That pre-dates me. I go back as far as the Roman Gabriel, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones days but was young then.

[lonevoice]

Yes m’am. If some players have to start losing their multimillion dollar contracts due to downward-spiraling attendance, I don’t think it will change anything at this point. The progressive socialists want America’s love of football to die. To them, it’s a repulsive celebration of toxic hypermasculinity. Like ESPN losing ratings, losing advertiser $$, the NFL won’t course correct, because its destruction serves the agenda. The BLM players can all go back to being broke-ass street thugs someday, never understanding that the progressive socialists don’t give a crap about them, their concussions, or their racial “oppression”. They’re only useful idiots, who will have served their masters well if the NFL dies.

[Brown Deer]

I thought Green Bay drew from Milwaukee?

Milwaukee is 100 miles south of Green Bay and the population is still a tiny fraction of LA's. In fact the population of the entire state of Wisconsin is much less than a quarter of the LA metro area.

In any case, last year I only watched the Green Bay games. Last week, Rodgers made a comment, giving the go ahead for Bennett's disrespect. So, this year I will not be watching any NFL games at all.

and btw, you can always find something to do in Milwaukee, home of the world's largest music festival.

[Mark]

I was in the army and shipping out to VietNam in a couple of weeks. Born in KC, so naturally I was wanting their win, but not so. Oh, well.

[xp38]

They were trying to paper the house as the term is for this practice.

[Brown Deer]

First off, that stadium holds less than 100,000. The NFL states that they only sold about 60,000 tickets for that game, but have not released official attendance numbers.

Looking at photo taken during the game, you can see that the top third of the stadium is nearly empty. The middle tier is at best filled to maybe one third capacity and the bottom third is at best half full. So for you to repeatedly say over and over again that their attendance was over 50,000 makes you less smarter than an 8th grader.

He never said that "all 8th grade football games in Alabana draw 50,000 fans." He said, "Looks like the crowd for 8th grade football in this part of Alabama." The looks of a crowd have nothing whatsoever to do with the number in attendance. I seriously doubt that any junior high schools in any of the 50 states have a stadium that large!

Why are you so seriously upset about his obvious sarcasm? Most 8th graders would have thought it was funny and most 8th graders can also spell 'Alabama'. Did you ever make it to the 8th grade?

and btw, most 8th graders that follow football would likely know that the Rose Bowl is in Pasadena and not LA!

[JohnBrowdie]

it was a damned stupid thing to say. 8th grade football games in ala-freaking-bama do NOT outdraw the los angeles rams. ever. not even in the universe where spock has a beard.

that really is all there is to the discussion.

why you 8th grade fetishists want to continue in your delusion of jr. high football nirvana in albalooma is beyond me.

(sorry. iOS hates the word alabaster)

[dfwgator]

Same stadium. Sellout for USC-Texas.

[dfwgator]

Tonight at the Colosseum...