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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They are still looking at other explanations. See Posts #35 and #37.
Try doing that in Pittsburgh, Chicago, Seattle, D.C etc.
Political correctness is killing professional sports.
They are idiots!
Yet Green Bay can attract close to 80,000 every game and the city of Green Bay has just over 100,000. LA has 39 times the population plus the metro area.
>>LA lost two football teams for a very good reason. Now the NFL sees what a mistake it was to go back there.<<
Well, you and others seem to believe it has more to do with location than the behavior (applauded & condoned) of the SJW players. Just change the locations, fix replay, get better refs, lower the prices, less commercials, more competitiveness.
Those problems have been endured in the past; not anti-police; anti-American insolence. That we won’t tolerate.
Seattle’s pretty cool. But if you tried that in Philadelphia, there’d be a chalk outline of you on the sidewalk within minutes.
Yeah think so
Why did anyone ever thing LA needs two teams?
you said that a half empty stadium with a capacity of 100,000 resembled an 8th grade football game in alabama. do 8th grade football teams attract 50,000 fans in alabama?
it’s a simple question, and it has a yes or no answer.
greed and a `14 million fan base
If you gave free tickets to the gangs of L.A., the place would be filled, and wallets emptied.
My neighbor’s kids live in Seattle. He and his kids are still Saint’s fans. He went to a game there between the sea hawks and Saints and he caught a lot of crap from the locals. Sea Hawks fans are a$$holes.
try to follow. there’s a galaxy sized difference between the green bay packers and an 8th grade football team from alabama.
That is 1/4 or so full.
BTW, Seattle’s pretty cool. I would love to live there except for all the uptight commies.
It’s a simple game worshipped fanatically in every banana republic and dirt poor hovel on the planet.
Pretty much, that's a big part of why the NFL is turning off many Americans.
The NFL has also forgotten basic marketing. Their games are the entertainment vehicle that gets the fans excited and promotes the sale of all their merchandise. When they went to restricting access to games by putting them on cable and worse, NFL Network (where very few can watch the games), I knew it was a huge marketing blunder.
The out-of-touch NFL management, the out-of-control political correctness, restricting access to games, terrible refereeing, are just a few things that are ruining the NFL.
CGato
I used to go to Raiders games there. Not the safest place in the world. I remember several years ago that a couple got murdered walking back to where their car was parked.
Somethings happening here.
What it is aint exactly clear...
Ah yes, I get the Buffalo Springfield reference............
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