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Old 09-19-2017, 01:08 PM  
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Los Angeles Doesn't Care About The Chargers
Barry Petchesky
Yesterday 9:07am

Sunday saw the return of the Los Angeles Chargers, their first home game since 1960, and no one’s very excited about it.

New and relocated teams usually get a first-year attendance bump, just from the novelty. The Chargers are a good team with an offense that’s fun to watch. Their temporary home, a soccer-specific stadium, is intimate and unique. There are plenty of reasons the Chargers might draw a good crowd. None of those reasons, apparently, are enough to overcome the hard realties of deep, deep disinterest:




A stadium that seats 27,000 couldn’t sell out, drawing an officially (generously) announced crowd of 25,381 for a 19-17 loss to the Dolphins. Making that attendance figure even sadder is that half of paying fans weren’t there to see the Chargers. “There were a lot of Miami fans out there,” Melvin Gordon said. “I think it was around 50-50.”

Including, perhaps, the person in charge of setting off the cannon after Chargers scores. Listen for the boom as Younghoe Koo missed a 44-yarder that would’ve won the game:




You’ll also hear a lot of cheers in that video. Those are the Dolphins fans, and they confused Philip Rivers all afternoon:

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“I heard the roar before I saw the official’s signal,” Rivers said. “I wasn’t sure which roar it was.”
Well, and why not? The Chargers have done everything in their power to alienate their old fan base (a plane towed a banner over the stadium calling Dean Spanos the worst owner in sports), and little to cultivate a new fan base. They fled San Diego three full seasons before their new stadium will be ready, and in the meantime they’re charging $100 for parking. They’re already second fiddle in their new city, a subordination that will be even more marked once they move in with the Rams. Philip Rivers said the team needs to win and it’ll see better attendance, but Los Angeles isn’t exactly tabula rasa for fandom. There are a lot of people from all over, with their own rooting interests, and a strong strain of Raiders fandom runs through the city, and any fans excited for a new team probably jumped aboard with the Rams last year. In short, it is difficult to picture a combination of circumstances and sensibilities that would lead a person to becoming a Los Angeles Chargers fan.

Let’s be clear: None of this is an indictment of those Chargers fans that exist or of Angelenos. You’re under no obligations to go to games, and considering how much better television is than the live NFL experience, the incentives are already slim. The NFL is a business, and if people aren’t consuming a product, that’s a sign of a failure of the company to offer a product people want to consume. And, potentially, a fatal misread of the market. Could it be possible, after the NFL spent decades using Los Angeles as a threat to strong-arm cities into building stadiums to keep their teams, that Los Angeles didn’t actually want its own team, let alone two? It’s still very early, but:
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Old 09-19-2017, 01:10 PM   #2
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I kind of hope both the Rams and Chargers fail miserably and are looking for a new home in 5 years.
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Old 09-19-2017, 01:12 PM   #3
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One thing to be clear about, though, the $100 parking thing is overblown. They have a more distant lot that is only $40, and they offer free shuttles from nearby where you can park for nothing.
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I kind of hope both the Rams and Chargers fail miserably and are looking for a new home in 5 years.
The Rams are locked in because Kroenke's spending $3 billion of his own money to build the new stadium (and home of the NFL Network), which won't be completed until 2020.

The Chargers should go back to San Diego immediately, if not sooner.
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The owner I fly for is seriously trying to buy an NFL franchise.

Would be interesting to see if he goes after the chargers, since we're in Napa and SoCal all the time anyway.


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The Rams are locked in because Kroenke's spending $3 billion of his own money to build the new stadium (and home of the NFL Network), which won't be completed until 2020.

The Chargers should go back to San Diego immediately, if not sooner.
The Rams are the only team I think that's doing this right.

They left a city that was lukewarm about them to go to a huge market that has a history with them. Instead of begging for public funding, they're going to fork over their own money to build a stadium, and from the looks of it, it's going to be the nicest one in the league (until that Vegas one theoretically gets built). They've put a fair amount of effort into branding and messaging. And their team is pretty well coached and has the key pieces in place for a swift rebuild.

The Chargers didn't even think it through. All the way down to their logo this was just corporate and mindless. LA doesn't give two shits about this team and never has, and that's going to get even worse when the Chargers ask the public for money on a stadium. They may have to pay the Rams for rent.
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I kind of hope both the Rams and Chargers fail miserably and are looking for a new home in 5 years.
In five years the Rams will be the only team in LA and who knows, maybe the Chargers will just return to San Diago under new ownership.

Hell the real problem in San Diago is that the owner not only wants a stadium, but a shopping complex attached. It's stupid. There are plenty of people in this world who would love to own an NFL team. Go find one and make SD work.
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