Posted on 07/25/2013 12:21:29 PM PDT by BenLurkin
“That sentiment was best expressed by Fred Dryer, who at the time said “I hate these people [the organization and its owner] for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California.””
How funny seeing as Los Angeles took the Rams from Cleveland, Ohio; the Lakers from Minneapolis; and the Dodgers from Brooklyn - all complete with team names, logos and colors (albeit, the Lakers eventually changed from blue/white to yellow/purple).
As for the NFL - look at teams in old stadiums or with poor stadium deals: Jax, San Diego, maybe Buffalo.
Why even build stadiums out of concrete if they are only going to be used for about twenty years like the Georgia Dome?
Probably. Last I heard the Rams and the city were about half a billion dollars apart on what each wanted to spend to upgrade the Jones Dome. I can't see them bridging that wide of a gap. I think the Rams really want out of St. Louis. On the other hand, who wouldn't?
They probably didn’t mind that much in the early 90s.
What would they name them?
The Los Angeles Vatos?
What’s “swived” mean?
That and nobody wants to be the guy that “lost the team”, it’s a good way to lose re-election. As much as everybody complains about the money everybody still wants their team.
And at least there’s is a history there. The Rams are probably still more associated with LA than St Louis.
I like the idea of holding a pre-season game in other countries even though I know it’ll never catch on elsewhere. They should do one in Seoul just because it would probably sell-out and have a good kpop pre-game and half-time show.
All my rowdy chingoo’s are coming over tonight!
St. Louis is the next Detroit. Kronke could build his own stadium in St. Louis Riverport area and the State of Missouri would give him the land cost free and tax free. He is a smart cookie and will do what Robert Kraft did either in LA or the St. Louis Riverport area. Of course why pay to build with your own funds if you can get LA or some eitity to pay for you.
So Jerry ... sell the Cowboys to a Texan (or to the fans), buy the Rams, and move them back to LA. Problem solved.
Here’s the headline I want to see.
“Limbaugh buys Saints, moving them to San Antonio for 2014/2015 season.”
Call the team the San Antonio Bandits.
Los Angeles Browns ...
Gotcha ... that seems to the reason LA doesn't have an NFL team. Rams had poor attendance Raiders same thing ... both teams moved on. LA has UCLA and USC, both teams go way back and LA loves them ... they fill their stadiums up whenever they play at home.
Top 10 home attendance in blue
RK TEAM GMS TOTAL AVG PCT
1 Dallas 8 708,249 88,531 110.7
2 NY Giants 8 643,964 80,495 97.6
3 Washington 8 637,236 79,654 86.9
4 NY Jets 8 632,704 79,088 95.9
5 Denver 8 613,062 76,632 100.7
6 Carolina 8 586,347 73,293 99.3
7 New Orleans 8 583,107 72,888 99.9
8 Houston 8 573,321 71,665 100.9
9 Baltimore 8 570,229 71,278 100.4
10 Green Bay 8 564,062 70,507 96.7
11 Atlanta 8 560,773 70,096 98.4
12 San Francisco 8 557,856 69,732 99.3
13 Philadelphia 8 553,152 69,144 102.3
14 Tennessee 8 553,144 69,143 100
15 New England 8 550,044 68,755 100
16 Kansas City 8 548,070 68,508 89.3
17 Seattle 8 543,570 67,946 101.4
18 Cleveland 8 533,058 66,632 91
19 Indianapolis 8 521,518 65,189 103.5
20 Jacksonville 8 519,872 64,984 96.8
21 Buffalo 7 454,653 64,950 88.9
22 Detroit 8 510,158 63,769 98.9
23 Chicago 8 498,633 62,329 101.3
24 Cincinnati 8 489,504 61,188 93.4
25 Pittsburgh 8 489,135 61,141 94.1
26 Arizona 8 487,125 60,890 96
27 Minnesota 8 485,802 60,725 94.7
28 San Diego 8 479,716 59,964 84.1
29 Miami 8 459,033 57,379 76.3
30 St. Louis 7 396,925 56,703 86.8
31 Tampa Bay 8 440,819 55,102 83.9
32 Oakland 8 433,732 54,216 86
20th, I rest my case.
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Jax as a city is extremely spread out. More people care about the Gators and Seminoles than the Jaguars.
The problem with the South is that most people came from somewhere else and still keep their allegiance to their teams from up North. It’s not an ingrained part of the city’s culture, like say the Bears are in Chicago.
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