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LOOK: Stadium is half-empty for Colts-Rams regular season opener in Los Angeles
CBS Sports ^ | Sept 13, 2017 | John Breech

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: boycott; football; nfl; sports
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To: 11th_VA

Bring back the USFL!


21 posted on 09/15/2017 8:51:23 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Saint Louis got royally screwed. The taxpayers are still paying off the stadium that the Rams left them with.

Football is a horrible market for Los Angeles. I don't care if they are the 2nd largest media market in the nation.

22 posted on 09/15/2017 8:53:09 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist (We're right, you're wrong - that's the end of the argument.)
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To: 11th_VA

The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has a seating capacity of 93,000. Been there many times and it is a big, big stadium.


23 posted on 09/15/2017 8:53:40 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
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To: 11th_VA

Looks like some of the MLB stadiums in recent years.

Of course, the MLB has a lot more weekday games, so presumably, people are at work. But, many stadiums have many vacant seats even at night and weekend games.

Maybe, it is just better viewing at home or at a sports bar with a big widescreen to watch, instead of fighting the crowd and traffic, etc.


24 posted on 09/15/2017 8:56:55 PM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Monterrosa-24

uh, it’s the rose bowl. capacity is about 100,000. that’s just an unintelligent thing to say.


25 posted on 09/15/2017 8:57:46 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: sparklite2
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 <<

The “Supply and Demand Law” has a funny way of exposing it self....

26 posted on 09/15/2017 8:58:53 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: TomGuy; PROCON
Maybe, it is just better viewing at home or at a sports bar with a big widescreen to watch, instead of fighting the crowd and traffic, etc.

And being disarmed and searched without warrant.

27 posted on 09/15/2017 9:01:04 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: 11th_VA

Can’t put that down to lack of interest in football in LA - that same Coliseum was packed the night before for USC - Stanford. Way to ruin a good thing, NFL.


28 posted on 09/15/2017 9:01:24 PM PDT by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: 11th_VA

Wow, that is thin attendance!


29 posted on 09/15/2017 9:02:02 PM PDT by W. (What's crackin', bitch? Har!)
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To: 11th_VA

Why spend six bucks on a game when you can go to church and watch people kneel for free?


30 posted on 09/15/2017 9:03:19 PM PDT by davius (You can roll manure in powdered sugar but that don't make it a jelly doughnut.)
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To: 11th_VA

USC is still the only professional football team in LA. ;o)


31 posted on 09/15/2017 9:03:44 PM PDT by Rockitz (This is NOT rocket science - Follow the money and you'll find the truth.)
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To: 11th_VA

The NFL can count on me not being there. They can also count on me not watching their games. They’ll soon realize they need to get control of their thugs.


32 posted on 09/15/2017 9:04:36 PM PDT by boycott
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To: Rockitz

Play more games overseas.


33 posted on 09/15/2017 9:05:00 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: 11th_VA

It’s the ‘new normal’ thingy. ;-)

The 9ers suffer from an overheating effect in their new stadium, one more good use for asbestos undies.

One side of the stadium with no shade cooks fans..

Having a team that Jed built doesn’t help either.


34 posted on 09/15/2017 9:05:28 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Monthly Donors Rock!!!)
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To: fhayek

San Diego was a football town. When the Chargers moved to LA, they moved away from their now-angry base to a city where they had no fans. The Chargers are playing in a soccer stadium that only seats 27,000 and they can’t fill that.

Hint: the Coliseum and Jerry’s stadium in Arlington each seat just under 100,000.

Coliseum seating is a problem for the Rams, too. They have been historically unable to get SRO at the Coliseum so that it always looked like it was under-attended. The NFL may have made a mistake in letting the LA market remain without a team as long as they did. People may have lost interest and found other pursuits.

The LA revolving door of the Raiders, Chargers, and Rams doesn’t make for long-time fans. The Green Bay Packers have a decades long waiting line for season ticket and the Dallas Cowboys ratings for the first game were better than last year. A national decline in football viewership has a lot of reasons with the chia-headed baboon dissing the anthem just one factor.


35 posted on 09/15/2017 9:06:26 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: sparklite2

You lost me at, “San Diego was a football town.”


36 posted on 09/15/2017 9:10:12 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie
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To: sparklite2

IMO LA can support two teams. BUT if you lose the fans will bail and forget new fans which is what they chargers needed.

Also it’s better to be in Anaheim then near the other team and have separate identity. SD fans can get to Anaheim easy. Many people from SD have a visceral response to driving to LA. So don’t tell them they have to go to Carson or Inglewatts. the way they did this I would suspect few from SD are making the trip to see them this year.;


37 posted on 09/15/2017 9:10:32 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: 11th_VA

My heart bleeds.............HaHaHaHaHaHa....But do you really think the league knows what the problem is—or do they care?


38 posted on 09/15/2017 9:12:14 PM PDT by Fungi (90 percent of all soil biomass is a fungus. Fungi rule the world.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

The Chargers seemed to have plenty of support in SD, but I live in Florida, and will take your word for it.


39 posted on 09/15/2017 9:13:54 PM PDT by sparklite2 (I'm less interested in the rights I have than the liberties I can take.)
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To: JohnBrowdie

SD had a long tradition of the CSUSD Aztecs since the late 60s. That was winning tradition. The chargers had strong teams on and off. for the size i would say it was a good football town. I went to 9 Aztec games in the early 70s when Dennis Shaw was throwing 7 touchdown passes in a game and thew stadium was filled. It was called AirCoryell.


40 posted on 09/15/2017 9:14:14 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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