Will NFL approve SD to LA move ?

[Sam Odom]

NO -220

After arrival of Rams, TV ratings decline in Los Angeles

NFL on FOX, the network that shows most of the Rams’ games, saw a decrease in its TV ratings in the Los Angeles market for 2016.

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2017/01/06/after-arrival-of-rams-tv-ratings-decline-in-los-angeles/

[mohye1980]

It's already approved up to the Chargers.

Will sam odom stop posting useless threads?

Yes +999
no -1450

[Sam Odom]

dummy , you replied

[DrunkHorseplayer]

It already is approved; the Chargers have until Jan. 15 to agree to move. If they decline, the Raiders have until 01/15/2018 to move.

[DwightShrute]

Adam Schefter


A stunner: Chargers plan to announce as early as Thursday they are moving to LA, ending 55-year stint with SD, league sources tell ESPN

[gauchojake]

Dean Spanos is a complete idiot. The only thing this does is help the Raider fans in LA not make a commute to SD.

[recon1]

Biggest mistake if Chargers move to L.A.

L.A. is a transient city with lots of other things to do and now with two NFL teams in the city they will be lucky to sit 30,000 at one game. Welcome to dumb land Spanos.

[funnyb25]

LA was better with 0 NFL fotball

[POOLSIDE]

Ugh this is so stupid. We didn't want the Rams. We don't want the Chargers.

We definitely dont want both.

We've tried this before. It didn't work. Now we have two teams that aren't the Raiders who get to split what little interest there is in the city. It is so dumb.

[DrunkHorseplayer]

SD should keep Qualcomm spruced up because the Chargers might return within a decade.

[lakerboy]

Lol

[DwightShrute]

Biggest mistake if Chargers move to L.A.

L.A. is a transient city with lots of other things to do and now with two NFL teams in the city they will be lucky to sit 30,000 at one game. Welcome to dumb land Spanos.

its all about TV revenues and merchandise sales. The owner make a fortune even if no one shows up to their 8 home games.

[darrell74]

Within 3 years, L A will have at least 10 home games/per year, blacked out due to non sellouts

[Sam Odom]

Ugh this is so stupid. We didn't want the Rams. We don't want the Chargers.

We definitely dont want both.

We've tried this before. It didn't work. Now we have two teams that aren't the Raiders who get to split what little interest there is in the city. It is so dumb.

[DiggityDaggityDo]

It's official

LA Chargers

[Sam Odom]

[Calgunner23]

Keep them and please take the Rams back as well..

I actually bought season tickets for myself and the gf. Went to 3 games.. sold the rest. If I want to watch some decent football, I'll stick with the Trojans.

Hot garbage..

[SharpAngles]

[JAKEPEAVY21]

well sammy, The Spanos family finally did it..fukk them, I hope they burn in hell..

sad day for San Diego

[MinnesotaFats]

Is this more about the politics and financial structure of California in general? All these moves and relocations involve California. It doesn't seem like the counties can support or maintain the quality capital assets required for these teams, and the population seems to prefer a cheaper form of entertainment. How can Florida support and maintain 3 teams, with Texas and Georgia, and Louisiana all coveting a similar audience with 4 additional teams, not to mention SEC football, and the California fans, isolated from competition, can't support 1 franchise?

This has to be the suffocating political and tax environment of California....something of this size would suggest stability, but we have none in CA.

[Sam Odom]

well sammy, The Spanos family finally did it..fukk them, I hope they burn in hell..

sad day for San Diego

NFL Comm office is not happy

[Seaweed]

Who cares its 70 miles away

[DiggityDaggityDo]

Who cares its 70 miles away

120 miles

[SharpAngles]

NFL Comm office is not happy

Yeah I'm sure he's pissed that one of the lowest valued teams in the league just gained billions in equity. The 650 million relocation fee must drive him crazy too

[SharpAngles]

well sammy, The Spanos family finally did it..fukk them, I hope they burn in hell..

sad day for San Diego

I don't expect SD people to be happy but how many times you guys vote down a new house?? This last time would tax nothing but hotel rooms so not sure why the locals wouldnt vote yes

[BigdaddyQH]

They are going to play in a 30,000 seat stadium. How worthless is that?

[Sam Odom]

They are going to play in a 30,000 seat stadium. How worthless is that?

1/2 full at that

[JAKEPEAVY21]

I don't expect SD people to be happy but how many times you guys vote down a new house?? This last time would tax nothing but hotel rooms so not sure why the locals wouldnt vote yes

on the heels of multiple losing seasons, the Bosa holdout and numerous other fukk ups by the Spanos family, I'm surprised they got 33% of the vote.

they will be shunned in LA

[SharpAngles]

They are going to play in a 30,000 seat stadium. How worthless is that?

This is 2017, the owners don't give a shit if 1 person buys a ticket they're too busy counting TV dollars


Good write up of the real situation...

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/san-diego-chargers-los-angeles-move-relocation-011217

No one went to Rams games in L.A. — so who is going attend a Chargers game in L.A.?

But here’s the sad, dirty truth: It doesn’t matter if anyone goes to the games.The Rams and Chargers are going to make more money with no one in the stands in Los Angeles than they ever could with full houses in the old stadiums of St. Louis and San Diego.

Sure, Roger Goodell tried to convince San Diego to keep the Chargers; he even gave the team money to help build a new stadium in the city.There’s no doubt the league wanted the team to remain, but it had to have a new stadium.They didn’t get it, so the NFL left.

San Diego never said they didn’t want the Chargers, they just said that they didn’t want to pay for a new football stadium.But in the modern world of sports, there is almost no difference.

Remember: Roger Goodell might call himself the Commissioner of Football — the whole sport — but his bosses are the NFL’s 32 team owners.The NFL is the most transparent of all the professional sports leagues when it comes to showing their true allegiances — the league has been part of at least half a dozen schemes to get cities and states to build new stadiums.It’s not because the stadiums really needed upgrades — although some certainly deserved to be condemned — it’s because of the money that a new stadium brings to team owners.A rising tide lifts all ships, and the Chargers were pulling down the league by being in a mid-level market with an antiquated stadium.

And the windfall of a new stadium is immense — just ask the San Francisco 49ers.No one showed up for their games in 2016, but it didn’t matter. Someone had paid for every seat in the stadium, and that will continue to be the case until the place crumbles to the ground.That’s because when the 49ers moved from Candlestick Park, which is actually in the city of San Francisco, to Levi’s Stadium, 40 miles south in the San Jose suburb of Santa Clara, they changed the way they sold tickets.

Every seat in Levi’s Stadium — all 68,500 of them — was treated like a piece of real estate, and the 49ers sold licenses to buy the rights to sit in those seats for games. The one-time cost varied between $2,000 and $80,000.That’s not the cost of season tickets — that’s just the cost for the right to buy season tickets — and it’s a lifetime contract. The 49ers didn’t invent the practice, but they sure did profit off it.

The seat licenses earned the 49ers $530 million. The team also sold out their full allotment of luxury boxes, worth $400 million.That’s close to a billion dollar payday, and we’re not even accounting for the increase in corporate sponsorships, parking costs (it adds up), in-stadium revenue, and the estimated $77 million annually from the actual sale of tickets (chump change).In all, the 49ers were able to pay off their share of their new stadium and massively profit before the team even took the field.Revenue jumped 160 percent, to $427 million, between 2013, the team’s last year in Candlestick Park, to 2014, the first year in Levi’s Stadium.

The value of the 49ers franchise increased by nearly 70 percent ($1.6 billion to $2.7 billion) year-over-year as well, all because of the new digs.It was a total coup. The team didn’t even have to leave the Bay Area.

The Chargers stand to make much more than the 49ers did, because of the size of the L.A. market (twice as large as the Bay Area, which also supports two teams) but also because the NFL has made the move so damn easy.Frankly, the only surprise would have been if the Spanos family decided not to move.The Chargers won’t have to build their own stadium — the Rams are doing that for them, and the Chargers will pay rent at the new Inglewood complex — and they will get to sell personal seat licenses and luxury boxes, money that will go directly into the team’s pocket.And make no mistake, people will buy the PSLs and luxury boxes in L.A.The Chargers are going to make so much money from this move to L.A. they don’t even care about selling tickets for the next two years — they’re likely to play at the StubHub Center, which holds less than 30,000 people. (Though they’ll probably double the price of tickets and call it boutique football.)The Chargers might have an easier time selling themselves to Los Angeles than the Rams, too — they already have a significant presence in the area.

[RockBottom]

Within 3 years, L A will have at least 10 home games/per year, blacked out due to non sellouts

There are no more blackouts. What will happen is you'll get a lot of LA/LA doubleheaders and see no other teams.

Feel for the SD fans. LA now has 2 of the worst owners in the league.

[BigdaddyQH]

If you really want to see an NFL game and do not have a fortune to dump on good seats, then the Stadium that the Chargers will play in is a dream come true for you. The Chargers will sell out the divisional home games. They play a lot of Eastern teams at home. They will do just fine because they only have to sell 30,000 tickets per game. If you really think that they will not sell out games, stop drinking and smoking that junk.

[JIBBBY]

LA went from zero NFL teams to now 2 teams.. Rams and Chargers..

I'm loving this living in LA myself.. Just wish the teams were both good enough to compete with other teams around the league .. We got 2 losers in LA.... Better then nothing though..

[BigdaddyQH]

NO -220

After arrival of Rams, TV ratings decline in Los Angeles

NFL on FOX, the network that shows most of the Rams’ games, saw a decrease in its TV ratings in the Los Angeles market for 2016.


http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com...n-los-angeles/

Do you EVER know what is going on? This was decided a year ago when the Chargers were given the option of moving to L.A. or staying in San Diego. It is just amazing how much you post and how little you know.

[gauchojake]

This is 2017, the owners don't give a shit if 1 person buys a ticket they're too busy counting TV dollars


Good write up of the real situation...

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/san-diego-chargers-los-angeles-move-relocation-011217

No one went to Rams games in L.A. — so who is going attend a Chargers game in L.A.?

Not true at all. Interest waned as the season went on and Fisher continued to shit the bed, but people still went to the games. They sold 74000 season seats and at least 60-70k were showing up every game.

Doubt the Chargers will sell out the Home Depot refrigerator box. Also I don't believe they get to sell PSL's in a stadium where they are the tenant.

[Sam Odom]

It is just amazing how much you post and how little you know.

Really ? Amazing ?

thought common knowledge