As many pundits (and people here) have said, having one NFL team in LA is fine. Two is just doomed to fail.
Bryan FischerVerified account @BryanDFischer 29m29 minutes ago
LA attendance: Chargers - 25,381 Rams - 56,612 NFL combined - 81,993 USC v. Texas - 84,714
(BTW this is "announced" attendance. It's tickets sold, not people through the turnstiles) so the actual number is much lower.)
Until/unless the Rams and the chargers start to play like competent "contenders" Their popularity here in LA will be stagnant. And If it were not for the Rams building a Billion+ Dollar stadium it wouldn't have shocked me to see one (or both?) of the teams have the same fate as the last team(s) to call LA their home.
Seriously. People here in LA really don't care about these teams and their mediocracy (and if they did care about any "local" team it was the raiders). USC is the "king" of football here. The NFL thought Football fans in a city without a football team for two decades ( 1995 to 2015) would just "root" for a team because its their "local" team. Thats really not how this works in sports (especially in LA) LA was without a "local" football team for so long that people took up rooting for other teams (be it the team their parents rooted and passed on to them or took up rooting for another team). Nobody has any long held connections to these teams. And it won't just take one "good" season to win the hearts of LA over. Its going to take prolonged seasons of Playoff success before you see every angeleno wearing that teams jersey.
(sorry for the rant)
Bryan FischerVerified account @BryanDFischer 29m29 minutes ago
LA attendance: Chargers - 25,381 Rams - 56,612 NFL combined - 81,993 USC v. Texas - 84,714
(BTW this is "announced" attendance. It's tickets sold, not people through the turnstiles) so the actual number is much lower.)
Until/unless the Rams and the chargers start to play like competent "contenders" Their popularity here in LA will be stagnant. And If it were not for the Rams building a Billion+ Dollar stadium it wouldn't have shocked me to see one (or both?) of the teams have the same fate as the last team(s) to call LA their home.
Seriously. People here in LA really don't care about these teams and their mediocracy (and if they did care about any "local" team it was the raiders). USC is the "king" of football here. The NFL thought Football fans in a city without a football team for two decades ( 1995 to 2015) would just "root" for a team because its their "local" team. Thats really not how this works in sports (especially in LA) LA was without a "local" football team for so long that people took up rooting for other teams (be it the team their parents rooted and passed on to them or took up rooting for another team). Nobody has any long held connections to these teams. And it won't just take one "good" season to win the hearts of LA over. Its going to take prolonged seasons of Playoff success before you see every angeleno wearing that teams jersey.
(sorry for the rant)