I am watching the Rams v 49ers game in LA and the crowd is cheering when the 49ers get first downs. They just exploded when the niners went ahead with a FG.
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It's like that for almost every game. LA doesn't deserve an NFL team, let alone 2.
They call it Levi Stadium South. It’s majority 49er crowd for every game there.
It’s not unusual at all to see visiting teams fill up NFL stadiums. A lot of teams have issues with it, depending on who they are playing in a given week.
There’s always a ton of opposing fans in every NFL stadium. Some more than others based on locations but it’s always more than you would think even when they don’t align geographically for easy travel. It’s called the National Football League for a reason.
I went to the Cowboys v Lions game... two years ago. The game where they called back Detroit's TD pass to a O tackle.
Anyways, it was nothing like States games this weekend but there were a lot of Lions fans at the game. I'd guess 25-30k. But that was in a 100k stadium.
Anyways, it was nothing like States games this weekend but there were a lot of Lions fans at the game. I'd guess 25-30k. But that was in a 100k stadium.
Years ago I watched USC and Notre Dame play in the L.A. colosseum and the crowd was the most pitiful excuse for college football fans that I have ever seen. The game was a sellout but they didn’t give a flip. Working on their tans and reading magazines, etc. it was a great game but I don’t think anyone noticed. Their attitude toward football was the same as their business attitude and attitude in general. Weak, weak, weak.
I lived outside of LA when I graduated. It seemed like people were bigger fans of the Lakers than anything else. I didn’t see many people with anything to do with any colleges. I was only there for less than a year but it was during football season. Rarely saw USC or UCLA.
I remember when the Oilers first moved to Memphis, the owner was pissed when the Steelers came in. 90% of the stadium was black and gold. Terrible towels were everywhere.
You are watching the future of college athletics. Its leadership is making the same dumb short-sighted decisions. A bunch of NFL bureaucrats assumed, “We can just move the Rams to St Louis, get a stadium there. Oh, and now we can just cut a deal and go back to Los Angeles 20 years later. There are 4 million people in the LA metro area. Our data shows X% will be hardcore NFL fans. And so we oughta have a filled up stadium every Sunday…..”
IT DOESN’T WORK LIKE THAT!!! And now there are no Rams fans.
Can we just let this go? The basic premise of life is minimize weaknesses, maximize strengths. Why do our fans insist in doing the opposite?
Seems pretty typical for the Steelers from my experience and general observation. Between them and Cub fans, have to give them credit for coming out of the woodwork about anywhere they play.
Bud Adams did everything he could to alienate the people of Memphis and West TN. He was pissed that he didn’t get automatic fan loyalty because he was moving to Nashville.
He had the highest preseason ticket prices of any team.
He wanted all the proceeds from ticket sales and concessions.
He wanted Memphis to pay transportation for the team from Nashville to Memphis along with any related expenses.
Seems there were a couple of other things I can’t recall at the moment.
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He also made a commitment and then reneged on funding for upgrades to Liberty Bowl Stadium.
At the end of the day, he didn't understand the Memphis/Nashville rivalry. It didn't occur to him that Memphians would rightly see them as Nashville's team and not support them. He thought they'd want to kiss his arse and learned a lesson.
With the LA teams they just don’t have a long term fan base and there are a ton of 49ers and Raiders fans in California, so that’s why you see those teams take over SoFi stadium regularly.
For non divisional games, and especially AFC vs NFC games, the traveling fan bases tend to make it a big deal to travel for those games because they don’t play in that city very often. I went to a Saints vs Ravens game in the Dome a few years ago and there were a ton of Ravens fans there. Partially because the Ravens only come to NOLA about once every 8 years.
The other thing is just big city dynamics. These cities are pretty diverse and have people the move in from all over and they bring their support of their favorite team with them. Used to do some work in Jacksonville and we’d occasionally go to a sports bar on an NFL Sunday. You’d see every jersey in the building other than the Jaguars.
For non divisional games, and especially AFC vs NFC games, the traveling fan bases tend to make it a big deal to travel for those games because they don’t play in that city very often. I went to a Saints vs Ravens game in the Dome a few years ago and there were a ton of Ravens fans there. Partially because the Ravens only come to NOLA about once every 8 years.
The other thing is just big city dynamics. These cities are pretty diverse and have people the move in from all over and they bring their support of their favorite team with them. Used to do some work in Jacksonville and we’d occasionally go to a sports bar on an NFL Sunday. You’d see every jersey in the building other than the Jaguars.
I lived up there then, and boy were we/Memphis people pissed. It could seem to outsiders a really easy choice now, Memphis vs. Nashville. But back then, there wasn't as much of a difference in the cities. In fact, if memory serves, I think Memphis technically had more people than Nashville at that point.
Boy, a lot has changed since then. I kinda wonder if they had decided to leave the Oilers in Memphis, how would that have changed the trajectory of both cities.
I lived there right after, and I had to go look that up. And yes, Memphis was around 1.2M and Nashville was around 1.3M. But even back then there was a distinct difference in those cities.
I don't think the NFL would have done well there anyway, whereas the NBA seems to fit well. Memphis is a basketball city.
I will also say that Nashville isn't really an NFL town. An MLB team would suit them better in my opinion. But soon probably getting big enough to have both along with the hockey.
I always wonder when I see, for instance, Vikings fans at the Dome in New Orleans - are there that many Viking fans that live around the NOLA area, or are they actually traveling from Minnesota to watch their team play? I don't have the disposable income to travel to watch State play at Auburn, much less to travel to watch the Saints play in Tampa.
I don't know, if the Saints hadn't been there forever, would you call New Orleans an NFL town today? Detroit? Seattle? Or are they now only NFL cities since they have had a franchise for a long time?
Houston wasn't an NFL town when the Oilers packed up, but now they are I assume.
I'm just saying, I bet Memphis would have supported a hometown team just like any city would... probably could have changed the trajectory of the city for the better, too, or at least made momentum swing the other way. That's just a guess, though, 30 years later. We will never know.
It's the UCLA and USC faculty tickets that are being sold to visitors .... **
I had no idea the Oilers were ever in Memphis. Made for an interesting rabbit hole
You have a point with NOLA, but they kinda had the tourism status plus they’ve long been known for politicians who get stuff done.
Seattle and Detroit are on another level than Memphis. Houston is a notch even above that. When you get as big as those it doesn’t really matter what type culture you have.
But yea, maybe Memphis could have pulled it off. I guess I have a little moo u in me when I think about Memphis since I spent so much time there back in the day.
New Orleans is one of those places that is fun for visiting teams to travel to. A weekend eating food in Nola and on bourbon street, plus the superdome is a great place to watch a game. Miami, New Orleans, LA, Arizona…. They all are popular away team destinations because they are in warm weather fun cities.