Fan in San Diego Posted October 7, 2009 Posted October 7, 2009 Having been a former resident of Los Angeles, I can say within a certain degree of accuracy that an NFL won't work in Los Angeles. Southern Californians simply don't care. The Kings? Their own paper doesn't cover them. I believe probably 70% of the residents don't even know there is an NHL team in their midst. Dodgers? Well, I personally hate baseball (boring, steroids, etc), and when I lived there from 99-03 the Dodgers were not too special. Besides, who wants to drive into gangland to watch a baseball game? The only team they seem to rally around is the Lakers. But that could also be because every Hollywood lister starting with Nicholson like to use the game as a personal showcase of themselves. The Rams were there, and left. The Raiders were there, left, came back, and then left again- partly in reason because their stadium at the time was ridiculously built for the Olympic Games of '84 and sat 100,000. Never sold out on a regular basis. I don't know. As an east coast transplant living in SoCal at the time, the ravenous hunger for the NFL just did not exist out West for me. Maybe it was the time difference (try waking up for a 1:00pm game at 10:00am on Sunday). Or the beautiful weather until January (rain season- yeah, a whole month of bad weather). Or the variety of things to do. The transient nature of the film industry and the people it attracts could also be a big factor. I went to 49'ers games, and Charges games when they would play the Bills. About 25%-33% of the fans being transplanted Bills fans, we were louder and more ferocious than the home crowd every time. West Coast is laid back, man. I just don't think that Los Angeles, despite its population, will ever care enough to keep an NFL franchise. And its too bad. The weather is really ideal for it year-round. IMHO, the reason why the Raiders never made it in LA was the coliseum. It is a bad stadium in a worse neighborhood and no parking.If you build a comfortable, clean modern stadium, in a safe neighborhood with easy parking and they will come in droves.
K-9 Posted October 7, 2009 Posted October 7, 2009 'LA has been starved..' I don't think so... Maybe the networks are starved for LA, but not the metropolis. That's just it, the networks AREN'T starved for LA. When they had teams in LA, BOTH the Raiders and Rams often ranked 3rd in their time slots on Sunday afternoons. Third! Behind reruns of Gilligans Island for crissakes. It's hard to charge premium ad rates in a premium market behind crap ratings like that. Perhaps it's changed. I don't know. GO BILLS!!!
MarkyMannn Posted October 7, 2009 Posted October 7, 2009 if bills leave buffalo what happens to the ralph? Turn it into the Southtown's Septic Tank. Would stink less than what goes on in there on Sundays now
PromoTheRobot Posted October 7, 2009 Posted October 7, 2009 Los Angeles already has pro football. They're called the Trojans. PTR
Sen. John Blutarsky Posted October 8, 2009 Posted October 8, 2009 same story different day F it. Buy them, move them. Let LA experience the "joy". In keeping with the spirit of the franchise I'm sure that LA will simultaneously have a 9.5 quake, tsunami, mudslides and massive wildfires immediately following the presser announcing their relocation. That's how powerful the suck of the Bills is right now. "Bills Football: Destroyer of Hearts and Minds since 1959"
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