OT: Rams headed back to Los Angeles?
Don't know how many people have been following this, but the St. Louis Rams could be headed back to LA.
Apparently there is a movement for a new stadium in LA.
The Rams would play at the LA Coliseum until the new LA stadium is completed. However, the city of St. Louis has pitched the Rams organization a new stadium idea to replace the old Edward Jones Dome.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:46 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 12:52 PM ^
Should definitely move to LA, where there are NEVER ANY riots.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:49 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 4:12 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 1:22 PM ^
Bolivia?
EDIT: It would appear at least partially so.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:31 PM ^
Anaheim. The Los Angeles Rams of Anaheim.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:47 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 12:48 PM ^
LA is always the city NFL teams use to get new stadia. It happens every time.
January 12th, 2015 at 12:50 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 1:23 PM ^
The Michigan Difference
January 12th, 2015 at 4:13 PM ^
Isn't that something similar to chlamydia?
January 12th, 2015 at 10:11 PM ^
Hey Don,
Greetings from Kenya!
Best,
Jas
January 12th, 2015 at 1:36 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 3:21 PM ^
the Angels as 2'ish baseball teams you need to count the Anaheim Ducks as a 2'ish NHL team.
They had two football teams at different times, the Rams who played in a terrible stadium in Anaheim for football then left, and the Raiders who played in the Coloseum. Both tried to get new stadiums in LA but the political climate and cost was too much to overcome for both so they bolted when they could.
January 12th, 2015 at 4:14 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 12:49 PM ^
LA is a terrible football town. In fact, it's a terrible sports town. Why do they keep trying that shitty market?
January 12th, 2015 at 12:54 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 3:25 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 12:57 PM ^
Because there are a bazillion people here and if the team does well, they will sell out and make fat stacks.
January 12th, 2015 at 3:31 PM ^
driving radius, how well would LA stack up? Or perhaps even more relevant, within a Y-aggrevation driving radius, where the time in congested traffic counts for more than the same time in smoothly flowing traffic.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:02 PM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 5:44 PM ^
They have two in the NHL as well (unless you don't count Anaheim as part of the L.A. metro area).
January 12th, 2015 at 1:03 PM ^
There's too much to do outside in Southern California but the Kings, Lakers and Clippers get good crowds in LA.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:32 PM ^
The Lakers are an institution in LA. Clippers and Kings are championship caliber teams. Also, they only need to draw 15,000 at those events to have a good crowd. I'm guessing a football stadium will be 70,000 - 80,000. As long as the team is good, they'll draw but if the team isn't very good, I doubt attendance will be that great.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:50 PM ^
Don't forget about the LA Galaxy my one and only favorite LA sports team.
January 12th, 2015 at 2:46 PM ^
Don't forget the Dodgers, who just drew 3.8 million fans.
L.A. is actually a pretty solid sports town in general. The main knock on their fans is that they arrive late and leave early (although given L.A. traffic, that's somewhat understandable).
January 12th, 2015 at 2:53 PM ^
I went to one Dodger game and the process of getting to and leaving the stadium makes me not want to ever go to another game. Also baseball sucks and I didn't really want to go the game in the first place.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:52 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 2:28 PM ^
Nobody went to USC games when they were bad like 12 years ago.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:11 PM ^
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January 12th, 2015 at 1:28 PM ^
No, it's not. Generally, the people only care when the teams are winning. That is what makes it a bad sports town. I live in Cleveland and have all my life. Throughout that time, our sports teams have had bright spots, but for the most part, they have been horrible, but there are ALWAYS a shit ton of people at the games. Well, except the Indians lately, but that is partly due to the fact that baseball in this country is slowing dying (thankfully).
January 12th, 2015 at 1:41 PM ^
Kings average a sellout (7th in percentage), Clippers average a sellout (5th in percentage) and Lakers sell 99.5% (11th in percentage), the Angels are 6th in percentage and the Dodgers are 7th.
Cavaliers average a sellout (7th in percentage), Indians are 30th in percentage and the NFL percentages are flawed on ESPN but Browns are somewhere in the 20s just eyeballing it (19th in average attendance).
January 12th, 2015 at 2:01 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 2:07 PM ^
As long as WD doesn't succeed in moving the Wings back to Victoria, BC and Michigan Stadium keeps selling 100k I'm all good. Just thought some actual facts were needed.
January 12th, 2015 at 2:14 PM ^
why are you thankful that baseball is "dying"? that seems like a rather cruel wish for a sport that you dont seem to be very interested in. why must the sport die? did it ever do anything to you? lol
seriously though, im a huge baseball and i am always seeing folks say things like that. why is there so much hate for americas pasttime? i can understand if you find it boring, but to be thankful that the spor is dying seems like a little much, dont you think?
Im not a huge hockey fan, but i would never be thankful to see the sport die. thats just awful. lol
(for what its worth, attendance has fallen league wide in sports as big as the NFL. i think this has to do with ridiculous ticket prices and HDTV's than any sport suddenly "dying". and to be fair, if any sport is going to die, i suspect it will be the one with the massive lawsuits, major decrease in participation at the youth level due to life threatening injuries being a common occurence. ...that isnt to say that i dont love football, i do..but it has a much larger chance of dying than baseball does)
January 12th, 2015 at 2:58 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
I agree that the games are getting too long, but MLB averaged over 30,000 fans per game last season, in a sport in which teams play 81 home games. That doesn't seem like a dying sport. (During the so-called golden age of baseball - 1950s-70s - teams generally drew far less than that.)
January 12th, 2015 at 3:03 PM ^
... has been propogated since at least the 1960s.
"Baseball is a dull game to dull minds." I've seen that attributed to various people.
January 12th, 2015 at 1:56 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 2:04 PM ^
/dropsbiggermic
January 12th, 2015 at 4:03 PM ^
One at a Beach club where the weather is in the 70's overseeing sunbathers in their bikinis >>>>>>>>> 20 degree weather on Lake Erie with a windchill near zero....
/drops the biggest mic
January 12th, 2015 at 4:18 PM ^
I'll take having four distinct seasons over having the same weather all the time for 12 months. To me, that's boring.
January 12th, 2015 at 5:17 PM ^
It isn't the same 12 months of the year. Maybe 9-10, but not 12. It even rained yesterday.
January 12th, 2015 at 7:01 PM ^
January 12th, 2015 at 4:32 PM ^
There are locations in Anaheim, LA and San Diego.
Also that was a line from Biggie's Going Back to Cali. It was a joke.
January 12th, 2015 at 5:01 PM ^
saw a bunch of games at the forum, and the finals between the kings + gretzky vs. canadiens was one of those where i got goose bumps just listening to the national anthem before the game. great memories. and their series with the maple leafs was fun too.
January 12th, 2015 at 6:03 PM ^
There are still potential pitfalls to any move to Los Angeles - most of all, complete opposition by city, county and state officials to provide any public funding for any new stadium. An article this morning talked about Kronke's Inglewood site potentially requiring about $40 million in tax subsidies within the first five years and more than $100 million over the life of the deal. With the state finally out from under a $24 billion deficit, no team/stadium deal is a slam dunk with this issue hanging in the balance.
Another issue is temporary housing for potential teams. Residents in my neighborhood (Pasadena) continue to actively fight any additional events at the Rose Bowl, meaning a new LA team would most likely have to play at the Collesium - a recently improved location, but hardly a top-notch NFL facility.
To the commenter's point above: one of the fun things about living here is that football watching ends up being a very communal experience. Nearly every NFL team and lots of major college football teams have bars where fans watch their team without the [insert local team's name here] game on by default.
By the way, Southern California is a cesspool of depravity and congestion. I wouldn't recommend that anyone visit or move here.