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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Amarica pushes back.
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.
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.
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.
nfl? Really, who cares? There are many more (and better) things to do than waste your time than watching overpaid America-haters.
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.
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?
Chargers tickets start at $100.00 on the Chargers website. They deserve empty seats, for sure.
14 million fan base? From the look of that crowd, the fan base is far larger in places like Buffalo and Green Bay.
14 million fan base? From the look of that crowd, the fan base is far larger in places like Buffalo and Green Bay.
The Raiders are still the most popular team in LA.
That pre-dates me. I go back as far as the Roman Gabriel, Rosey Grier, Merlin Olsen, Deacon Jones days but was young then.
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.
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.
They were trying to paper the house as the term is for this practice.
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)
Same stadium. Sellout for USC-Texas.
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