LA Rams and Los Angeles SuperChargers

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Feb 23, 2003
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So, the Chargers have not accepted yet? The bid?

The offer, I believe, was Rams + Chargers. What's the hold up? It's already done.
LA Rams
LA Chargers.

Great for the NFL, Great for the city to have an AFC and NFC team.
Facility will hold NFL Draft and NFL Combine as well as future Superbowls.

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Feb 23, 2003
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Oh yeah, getting closer.

"The NFL officially approved the Rams to return to the city where they played for 49 years before leaving after the 1994 season, and Los Angeles should know soon whether the Chargers will join them this fall."
 
Nov 24, 2003
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City of LA does not want the Raiders because of their fan base which is ultimately why the Raiders bowed out.

St Louis should have never left LA in the first place and it makes sense in terms of the geography for the NFC West for them to be back in LA.

The Chargers on the other hand have no business moving out of SD. Coming from a Sonics fan that is still pissed about them leaving almost 10 years later, moving the Chargers out of SD is fucked up.
 
May 9, 2002
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Going from no teams to two teams doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I realize LA is massive but I have doubts they can consistently sell out home games every week. Doesn't seem like a lot of people care.
They dont care now, but wait until they actually get the team(s) there. Its the same as Seattlites and the NBA: fuck em until we get our Sonics back.
 

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Aug 22, 2003
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Is this why you're not an nba fan anymore cause they moved the sonics?
I'm a Spurs fan, and have been for awhile because Tim Duncan is my favorite player of all time. I just haven't felt like watching it the past couple years cause its trash, theres no parity and no competition in the NBA i swear they dont even play hard like 90% of the time and any game can easily be changed by calling fouls at the end. It's also very easy to stack a team wtih a bunch of all stars. Its a shitty sport tbh
 

Coach E. No

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There's as much parity in the NBA as there is in the NFL. But I have to agree, NBA gets boring for some reason to me even though I love basketball.

Chargers being anywhere other than SD makes no sense and they have no fans outside SD for the most part. I'm curious to see if there really are Rams fans still in LA. I hope they go back to the old school uniforms. I'm glad they're moving back personally and it only helps the NFC west as far as travel time.
 
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I'm a Spurs fan, and have been for awhile because Tim Duncan is my favorite player of all time. I just haven't felt like watching it the past couple years cause its trash, theres no parity and no competition in the NBA i swear they dont even play hard like 90% of the time and any game can easily be changed by calling fouls at the end. It's also very easy to stack a team wtih a bunch of all stars. Its a shitty sport tbh

I totally agree about the effort in NBA. At some point in the late 90s or early 2000s guys started realizing that it didn't make sense to bust their ass in the regular reason and that playoffs are all that really mattered. Once 1 guy figured it out, the concept spread like wildfire across the NBA. The risk reward of playing at 100%, diving for balls, taking hard fouls, doesn't make that much sense.

I disagree about parity though. I hate parity, that is my least favorite thing about the NFL. I like dynasties and dominating teams.

In the NFL its a lot more exciting when a 12-1 team goes up against at 13-0 team than when an 6-6 team goes up against at 5-7 team.
 

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There's as much parity in the NBA as there is in the NFL. But I have to agree, NBA gets boring for some reason to me even though I love basketball.

Chargers being anywhere other than SD makes no sense and they have no fans outside SD for the most part. I'm curious to see if there really are Rams fans still in LA. I hope they go back to the old school uniforms. I'm glad they're moving back personally and it only helps the NFC west as far as travel time.
ive been in LA since october for work and this is what is everone is sayin down here....

the rams are a no brainer to come here, and will be playing in the coliseum next year until there stadium is built...

the chargers want to come and will share a stadium. 35% of charger season ticket olders are from orange county, so they will remain faithful, but will the remaining fans drive from san diego to inglewood to support the chargers after they have abandoned the city, likely not. so the chargers would have to sell their tickets much cheaper than the rams, much like the clippers used to do, or even when the kings gave tix to laker season tix holders, red flag.

the raiders bring nothin financially to the table except the 100 mill the nfl gives them. and unless davis hits the power ball, the raiders are gone to the highest bidder, oakland isnt even gonna humor asking tax payers for money while they are still paying off Mt. Davis...
 
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Coach E. No

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Good info. I lived in SD from 04-07, and they were trying to get a new stadium then and the city got worse and worse financially as far as the City of San Diego government. They were gonna move to Chula Vista, then Carlsbad was a rumor if I remember, now this. Very few people I knew in SD wanted to spend city money on a stadium. A significant portion of people in SD are not originally from there, so that probably doesn't help.
 
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I totally agree about the effort in NBA. At some point in the late 90s or early 2000s guys started realizing that it didn't make sense to bust their ass in the regular reason and that playoffs are all that really mattered. Once 1 guy figured it out, the concept spread like wildfire across the NBA. The risk reward of playing at 100%, diving for balls, taking hard fouls, doesn't make that much sense.

I disagree about parity though. I hate parity, that is my least favorite thing about the NFL. I like dynasties and dominating teams.

In the NFL its a lot more exciting when a 12-1 team goes up against at 13-0 team than when an 6-6 team goes up against at 5-7 team.
Yeah I started falling out of love with the NBA even before the Sonics left, you could literally see the change in the game for the worst in just a few seasons. Added to what you said, the penalities just got out of control, rule changes and lack of defense, not too mention the obvious fixing games that I witnessed just killed it for me. Sonics leaving was the icing on the cake.
 
Feb 23, 2003
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Basically, Kronke fucked the Chargers lol. This all happened because originally SD wanted/needed to move and his proposal and JJ's proposal just was there to override SD and every other SD proposal just to get his team in the LA market.
Sorry for confusion, Im typing summary of what Im hearing on radio