Don't knock Boise St. games, may be a small market but the fans in Boise are fiercely loyal. I've been to a few BSU games and they are pretty intense.
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San Diego Chargers plan to announce that they are moving to Los Angeles
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Don't knock Boise St. games, may be a small market but the fans in Boise are fiercely loyal. I've been to a few BSU games and they are pretty intense.
CosmicQueso
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Nah. First row is elevated, it's not like a baseball stadium where row 1 is sitting right at field level. This is the least of the problems with the location.
Middle finger guy was great. That punk ass Chargers fan was not.
elrechazado
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It's really funny because kroenke's group played spanos so hard, but the spanos wing got them a consolation prize second fiddle option so bad they assumed he'd never take it. Then spanos bungled the stadium stuff and pissed off the city and forced his own hand, to take the horrible option. Basically everyone played themselves.
CountAntonius
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San Diego wants them. NOBODY in LA does. This was a terrible move.
Sigh....come back.
At least there is still Rocket League!
http://www.sportingnews.com/nfl/new...es-stadiums-photos/1tgh5n7802pz91fci8fypnwbitSunday marked the first time two Los Angeles NFL teams were home since 1994, but no one seemed to care.
Both the L.A. Chargers and L.A. Rams played in relatively empty stadiums.
Check out this photo of the 27,000-seat StubHub Center during Sunday's Dolphins vs. Chargers game:
The StubHub Center holds 27,000. The Chargers failed to sell the game out, as the announced attendance was 25,381, which is the number of tickets ”distributed" not the number of people through the turnstiles.
Based on reports on the ground, roughly 50 percent of the crowd were there to cheer on the visiting Miami Dolphins.
Video:
https://twitter.com/ohrnberger/status/909553023680110592
And this view of the L.A. Memorial Coliseum during Sunday's Redskins vs. Rams game:
http://thebiglead.com/2017/09/18/chargers-first-home-game-in-los-angeles-as-embarrassing-as-it-gets/
maabus1999
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I wonder what NFL rules are for moving a team again? If this continues, two teams are obviously not financially viable at this location.
RoboGeorgeForeman
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LA is a Raiders city, there was no way this could have turned out well.
But at least I might be able to score some tickets on the cheap later this season.
But at least I might be able to score some tickets on the cheap later this season.
Gentleman Jack
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Get fucked, Spanos
We couldn't be duped into building them a Stadium downtown for free so Dean Spanos threw a fucking temper tantrum and decided to take his ball and leave.
The Chargers are dead to me and I've stopped caring about football entirely as a result...need a new surrogate team...taking all suggestions...I'll root for anybody but the Patriots and the Raiders.
Fenderputty
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Duped? You guys turned down a hotel tax. lol It was only part of the funding too IIRC. More like, Spanos knows simply moving the team to LA increases the value. Same reason the Clippers won't move to Seattle ... ever.
Also .. game two of Rams was better. The coliseum fits 93,000 people so even 70K will looks kinda sparse. The fact that we can score a TD this year seems to be a positive.
Rockandrollclown
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LA is not a football town. How many times must teams move there, then leave before they stop going back?
Miami has the Dolphins, the greatest football team
Quit the league entirely and follow the Winnipeg Blue Bombers!
They are pretty much the Chargers of the CFL. Wasting the prime of a GOAT player. History of terrible GMs (the current one is good), revolving door of coaches for the most part. Questionable offensive strategy.
Gentleman Jack
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Sure we are! I've never seen such a concentration of Steelers, Patriots, Cowboys, and 49ers fans in any other city!
They're not a pro football town, USC has no problem putting asses in the seats.
Randolph Freelander
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But you just said they're not a pro football town.
Gentleman Jack
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ayyyyyy
You should be miserable with all the other Niner fans out there.
Captain Zyrain
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If the Rams and/or Chargers actually prove they're good, people will show up. It's the LA way.
No one here has time or energy to devote to the goddamn 4-12 Rams, or the cosmically cursed Chargers.
LA is fickle and likes a winner. Why do you think no one cared a damn about the Clippers for so long?
If they can persevere and actually gitgud, they'll be fine. They probably don't care until the new stadium is built anyway.
It took almost 15 years to get the Raiders turned around, I expect it'll take a bit for the Rams, and who knows whats going to happen to the Chargers when Rivers hangs it up.
No one here has time or energy to devote to the goddamn 4-12 Rams, or the cosmically cursed Chargers.
LA is fickle and likes a winner. Why do you think no one cared a damn about the Clippers for so long?
If they can persevere and actually gitgud, they'll be fine. They probably don't care until the new stadium is built anyway.
It took almost 15 years to get the Raiders turned around, I expect it'll take a bit for the Rams, and who knows whats going to happen to the Chargers when Rivers hangs it up.
Violence Jack
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LA didn't need two teams. They should've gotten the Raiders back, and sent the Chargers or Rams to Vegas instead.
Vegas Chargers actually kinda makes sense.
CosmicQueso
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Or the billionaire owner could have self-funded a portion of the stadium that would have been built in SD instead of asking the public for a handout.
He's poor by owners standards. He's probably only a billionaire due to the value of the Chargers. He really should have sold the team.
Stormhammer
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That picture for the Rams/Redskins game seems misleading as the stadium looked much more packed during the game when I watched it. That just looks like a shot during pre game
It totally is, picture is taken before the actual game even started. Take a picture of Dodgers Stadium before a game and you'll get an empty stadium as well. Add to the fact that the coliseum is huge, ~90k, even selling about 60k would look empty as someone previously mentioned.
ghostofsparta
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MonkeyKing
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Sorry but we're not going to pay top dollar to watch garbage ass football teams with no local Fanbase. It's not worth the price of tickets, concessions, parking, and worst of all the traffic. The numbers will go up once a team comes to town that people actually want to see.
VendettaRed07
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Moving two was a terrible idea
Also really stupid to move teams out of San Diego and St. Louis while leaving a team in Jacksonville
Should have been the Raiders -> LA, Jaguars Rebrand -> Las Vegas, Charges and Rams stay put
Also really stupid to move teams out of San Diego and St. Louis while leaving a team in Jacksonville
Should have been the Raiders -> LA, Jaguars Rebrand -> Las Vegas, Charges and Rams stay put
The cash he paid to move ($650M) would have built Gillette Stadium ($325M) twice. He wanted a tax payer funded palace.
Etrian Oddity
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Shoulda gone to San Antonio. Lol Chargers, Lol NFL, fuck Jerry Jones
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The reason they moved there was because team valuation goes up in LA. But that's all imaginary value and eventually they stop getting valuated at some increased rate when they figure out there isn't a bunch of money in LA.
What you're seeing is the NFL collapsing under the weight of its own ego. The NFL buys into its own hype about how much people are willing to pay to see games.
The Spanos family are not that well off, and most of the net worth they do have comes from their ownership of the football team.
They should sell the team, but football is a cartel and it's free money so they won't.
BigJonsson
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Move one of them to Toronto
FinalStageBoss
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Nobody asked for these two loser teams tbh
What the fuck was Spanos thinking. I feel like a broken up boyfriend. If the chargers came back I would take them back with open arms. I fucking love Rivers and the man deserves a ring on his finger and want to see that happen in San Diego. (Wishful thinking) still boggles my mind why he would move to a city to be third favorite behind the Raiders and Rams.
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