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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
I mean you saw the post that started all this talk right? About the Rams being dead last in their own market on TV? About the Rams having better viewership numbers in St. Louis than in LA? LA is a transplant city like SD, though not quite to as high a degree. And it lost two NFL teams already for a reason. LA is like every sports town that has awesome weather: As fair weather as it gets. Can you blame them? Going to live sports is extremely expensive. Going to the beach on a 70 degree day is...yeah.
The Rams are there for at least the next 30 years because Kroenkeworld is happening, not because of the epic support they'll have. As the home of NFL media, and as the virtually guaranteed home of a Super Bowl ever 5 years (plus you gotta think NCAA football and basketball finals), there's all the money in the world coming in. If that's the judgement for success, making money, they can't fail. But it'll be a mostly ignored team, and likely not even as popular as teams from other cities unless they produce a Patriots type dynasty team. Good luck with that.
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Yet that fickle crowd you just described will travel en masses to vegas every second weekend?
I'm not sure about the charger move as they are giving up a devoted base. A dump of a stadium that can't generate much money and a city that doesn't seem to care about improving that situation but this is a big and expensive leap. But one team should work.
The rams didn't have much to lose. Over time raider base will shrink and local fans will grow. It's weird to think LA doesn't deserve a pro football team. It just does.