Posted on 01/05/2015 10:15:43 AM PST by Enlightened1
I personnally wouldn't go to Inglewood if they gave me a fully stocked complementary limo and free tickets...
No joke.
I was watching a Rams game over the holidays with some relatives/fans and was flabbergasted to learn that they are no longer in LA. I guess I’m more out of touch than I thought - especially when I found out how long they’ve been in whatever town they are currently in.
Michael Medved was right. The US is being divided into two groups: Those who watch TV and those who don’t.
That is one strange thing. They always build stadiums in the worst areas. I guess they feel they can at least clean up that area as a start. I must admit Baltimore was a dump until the stadium moved in and now it is a great city with lots to do around the stadium. So overall it is a positive for the area that gets the stadium.
I can’t stand it when some idiot dances after making a tackle when his team is down by 30 points. They have some real morons in that league.
I know what BRD is, but BDR must be worse!
Think it has more to do with the cost of the land. Can remember going to Dodger Stadium at Chaves Ravine. Before the stadium was built it was a low income Hispanic barrio.
Have not been there in decades so I don’t know what the area is like now.
Maybe StL could take the Browns? Call them The St. Louis Mike Browns?
I lived in LA when the Rams and Raiders were both in town. Neither team could draw a crowd. The Raiders hosted the AFC Championship game one year and it was blacked out locally because the Colosseum was half empty. Having witnessed the dearth of interest then makes me question why an owner would want to move a team there - aside from leveraging a new stadium deal where they are now.
We call inglewood - inglewatts.
And hollywood - hollyweird.
The Rams moved to St. Louis Mo 20 years ago. In other news Lindy made it. :)
Yes, it affect both the rectum and the hand eye coordination
lol
Yeah, that is what shocked me. I dumped tv in 1997, but the rams moved BEFORE that. I must have heard it but just forgot.
I always wondered why they had them in the same division as Seattle, SF, and Arizona. Perhaps the NFL knew something when they made these divisions in 2002. The Rams move to St. Louis in 1994.
If the SF 49ers can play in Santa Clara, the Rams could play in San Bernardino and still be part of LA.
If you check the stats, attendance for the Raiders was better in Los Angeles than the long term average after they moved back to Oakland. Some of the crowds in that dump they call the Oakland Mausoleum in recent years have been the worst since the early AFL days before Al Davis took over.
As for the Rams, dear old Georgia did nothing to field a competitive team and never did any community relations in the OC to boost attendance. Fans in St Louis have pretty much given up on the team after the Kurt Warner years too. Of course it didn’t matter because for years the city agreed to buy up all the unsold tickets to get the team to move there in the first place.
You could almost call Inglewood the gateway to Watts.....
Let’s see if the Ram’s owner builds the stadium USING ALL OF HIS OWN MONEY!
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