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It'll take time for an LA team to take hold if at all. The Rams were probably the most unwatchable team in the league last year. The 49ers are just bad and the stadium design is dumb.
 

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Yikes. The niners crowd is more surprising, imo, noticed it before the game started. Stick with my prediction Chargers or Rams leave L.A. after 5 years or before.
 

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Two terrible teams last season and mainly the heat kept people away. And to be fair the Coliseum has a capacity of like 93k so it's easy for that stadium to look empty.

The Rams will be fine in L.A. as they do have somewhat of a pre-established fan base but it'll take time for them to get rooted and grow the fan base.

It's not that there isn't a market for a team in L.A. because there is actually a ton of football fans in SoCal but they grouped up into fans of different teams.

So like the Angels baseball team in SoCal you'll need about two generations before you grow a really strong and faithful fanbase as the kids who don't have a favorite team adopt the local team and pass that fandom onto their kids.
 

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can chargers even get of any signed contract in 5 years or less? im sure stan didnt get rich by being that dumb.....
 

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It'll take time for an LA team to take hold if at all. The Rams were probably the most unwatchable team in the league last year. The 49ers are just bad and the stadium design is dumb.
What's wrong with Levi's?

I enjoyed myself the one time I went.
 

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Yikes. The niners crowd is more surprising, imo, noticed it before the game started. Stick with my prediction Chargers or Rams leave L.A. after 5 years or before.

And that's the right call. Maybe LA deserves one team, but they sure as hell can't support two. The Chargers should go to San Antonio, back to San Diego, or potentially to Mexico City.
 

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Seats if I recall.
maybe they can stitch together a large denim sun shade like miami.....
hard-rock-stadium-overhead-above-1000.jpg
 

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It'll take time for an LA team to take hold if at all. The Rams were probably the most unwatchable team in the league last year. The 49ers are just bad and the stadium design is dumb.

There's a reason 2 franchises moved from there in the 90s. L.A. is a bad sports town.
 

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That's interesting. The scale of expense is insane, though. Dolphins canopy will cost $400 million.

The 49er's clearly didn't care about the pretty big temperature difference between San Fran and Santa Clara.
 
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