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Why can't LA keep a football team?

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Deeko

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They've had them and lost them, and it seems inexplicable that the 2nd largest city in the country doesn't have even one team in the nation's most popular sport.

Thoughts?
 
Heh. According to the super bowl commercial, LA DOES have a professional football team. 😛
 
I think there is just so much going on in LA. The fans have lots of things to do, so they are not as fervent as fans somewhere else, say green bay wisconsin. The folks in GB live and breathe Packers all year, so they buy the merchandise, there's a mile long waiting list for season tickets etc.

In LA, the fans just don't care that much. The USC trojans are an awesome team, but yet they can't always fill their stadium and the atmosphere is pretty 'blah' for those games as well (compared to, say, SEC games at night).

The population is huge and the numbers are there, but the LA fans are not fervent enough to support a team through good and bad times. Every city can support a team when the team is great, but when the team sucks, places like LA will not support the team.
 
LA is about WINNERS.

football teams can't win all the time, and can't sustain themselves with 0 fan support....
 
You got the Lakers, Clippers, Dodgers, Angels, Kings, Ducks. In recent years see the rise of USC football. UCLA has declined but probably will return.

Add in weather and there's simply so much pepole can be doing in the area that they don't need to look to sports for entertainment.

 
no one is actually from there, so they all root for the teams they grew up with. additionally, if the team isn't winning it won't get support, and everyone will complain that the good games from the rest of the country aren't on tv because the crappy local team is.

or so i heard.
 
I was thinking "but they have one, called LA Galaxy, don't they? And they just signed Beckham", then I realised what you were talking about.
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
no one is actually from there, so they all root for the teams they grew up with. additionally, if the team isn't winning it won't get support, and everyone will complain that the good games from the rest of the country aren't on tv because the crappy local team is.

or so i heard.
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I know tons of people born and raised here, myself included
 
Originally posted by: AUMM
Originally posted by: ElFenix
no one is actually from there, so they all root for the teams they grew up with. additionally, if the team isn't winning it won't get support, and everyone will complain that the good games from the rest of the country aren't on tv because the crappy local team is.

or so i heard.
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I know tons of people born and raised here, myself included
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OK sure, but his point is still valid, many of the people in LA are not native to LA.
 
Originally posted by: oogabooga
LA is about WINNERS.

football teams can't win all the time, and can't sustain themselves with 0 fan support....
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If LA is about winners, the clippers would have been gone by now. Since becoming the LA clippers and moving a bit north to the LA region(1984), they've only been above 500, three seasons, and appeared in the playoffs 4 times.
 
Because the Coliseum is old and no owner wants their team playing there and LA doesn't seem interested in building a new football stadium.
 
Originally posted by: oogabooga
LA is about WINNERS.

football teams can't win all the time, and can't sustain themselves with 0 fan support....
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That's a good part of it. L.A. is just a bad sports town. I love it, but just the same...
 
Because most of the reasons above are steeped in untrue stereotype or plain stupidity, or a rancid mixture of the two, here's my two cents:

Why? Two people: Al Davis and Georgia Frontiere. Al Davis was too busy looking for a city to bend over regarding stadium issues and other incentives to field a competitive team. Frontiere it seems was never even intended to operate the Rams franchise, w/good reason seeing how easily she followed her emotional whims. 'Nuff said.

It would be almost impossible for any city or market to retain two teams headed by these nutcase owners. Too much blame is placed on the city and its fans.

Regarding the current situation here, I'm happy w/o any football here. Not much of a fan of the game anymore (and neither is anyone I know), but should I feel like it, I can still watch many games from the comfort of home or a buddy's place w/o either one of us getting raped by paying for some broadband NFL package. I hope the Coliseum commission here enters into a long-term committment w/USC so we can eliminate the whole "If you don't subsidize our team's Taj Mahal, we're going to L.A." farce that seems to occur every offseason with at least one team/owner. We all know the Coliseum would be the stadium they'd land a franchise in (if/when the NFL and any of its owners decide to settle) if they'd stop trying to find another bid to place against another much as they like to pit cities... and with USC in charge of the building, the NFL would have to kow-tow to a university's demands and needs if it intends to move in.

😀

Then the NFL can see what they missed out on every college football season when USC plays to packed crowds in a venue w/history the NFL can only dream of (only venue in the world to host two Olympic games... and maybe a third), in a much improved and revitalized area where fans like myself can just hop a light rail train to in 2009.

This is not even touching on the fact that the NFL continues to alienate Latino fans, especially those who speak any Spanish at home. Guess what segment of the population is exploding and whose consumer buck is becoming more important by the day? Yup, they have brown skin. You (continue to) miss the boat NFL, and we in L.A. are doing just fine.

😎

</bitter much?> 😛
 
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Well, first they'd have to actually GET a football team...
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At one point they had TWO football teams (Raider and Rams). I dont get your post.

@OP, LA is a sprawl in the pit of amurika. If you lived in say OC would you commute 2-3 hours ONE way to see some sh!tty football team play?
 
Originally posted by: jjones
Because the Coliseum is old and no owner wants their team playing there and LA doesn't seem interested in building a new football stadium.
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Building stadiums is never good for a city according to that Vanderbilt sports economist.

Besides that, how can sports fans ever be loyal to a team that could leave the city because they don't like the stadium (Oilers), or left their previous city for a better stadium in your town?
 
Originally posted by: homercles337
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Well, first they'd have to actually GET a football team...
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At one point they had TWO football teams (Raider and Rams). I dont get your post.

@OP, LA is a sprawl in the pit of amurika. If you lived in say OC would you commute 2-3 hours ONE way to see some sh!tty football team play?
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I'm talking about the present...not the past.

BTW-I've seen the Raiders play in L.A. and the Rams play in Anaheim.
 
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