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Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud
This has been detailed in the past on this forum but I'll briefly summarize:
1946: Cleveland Rams move to LA.
1980: After the death of her husband in 1979, Frontiere moves the Rams to Anaheim, even though they'd been successful in Los Angeles for over 35 years.
1994: Frontiere leaves Anaheim for St. Louis.
She was a money-grubbing whore. She didn't care about the fans, the sellouts, the players or team. The Rams leaving Los Angeles and Anaheim had nothing to do with the fans.
As far as the Raiders, Greasy Al is a bigger scumbag than Frontiere. The Raiders had huge fan support in LA and it's his fault that they didn't stay. He took $10 million dollars from the city of Irwindale as a deposit which he never returned. He's a scumbag but Raiders jerseys are seen everywhere in Los Angeles to this day.
Bottom line: There are several multi-billion dollar developers standing in line to build a billion dollar football stadium in Los Angeles. With the proper stadium location, it'll be sold-out forever. There's over 20 million people in the LA basin and the college teams (USC & UCLA) routintely sell out their stadiums.
Los Angeles just needs the right team, right owner and right stadium. If those things fall in line, it'll be extremely successful. And the television contract will be through the roof.
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Thank you, LA will support a team just fine. The stadium is the only problem.