well since there are still a couple hours left till the big game tonight i will try ONE MORE TIME from you
Billo_Really
were you aware of these facts here that the original owner of the chargers Baron Hilton,the REASON he moved the chargers to san diego from LA after being there for just one year was because he could not compete with the Rams? LOL
Like i said earlier,despite the fact the Chargers had an 8-4 record their one year in LA in 1960 and making it as far as the AFC title game they lost to the Oilers before moving the team to SD,they only averaged 11 to 14,000 per game. The Rams on the other hand having the opposite record at 4-8 that year,THEY averaged 77,000 fans a year.
Then, as quickly as they arrived, the Chargers were gone. After just one season, Hilton moved the team to San Diego. Los Angeles had responded to the Chargers’ existence with a collective shrug.
“We were kind of just a bump on a log,” said Don Rogers, a center on the 1960 team.
one Chargers players even poked fun at their dwindling support. Rogers remembered emerging from the tunnel with teammate Don Norton and staring up at vast, empty bleachers. Each week, they turned to each other and made the same joke.
“We’d just shake our heads and say, ‘They’re staying away by the thousands,’” Rogers said.
Chargers’ genesis in L.A. a forgotten footnote – Orange County Register
spanos obviously did not pay attention to the LA TIMES when they did a poll of NFL fans in LA what team they wanted back the most. as you can see for yourself to no surprise the Rams ruled at #1 with 60% of the votes, Raiders second with 30% of the votes-"they have a big fanbase as well but it is LIMITED" and the chargers in a Distant third with 10% of the votes.
Nobody in LA wants you chargers,go back to san diego.wont matter if they win either,LA fans are not going to drop their loyalty to the rams with their history there and the chargers dont even play second fiddle,they play fourth fiddle behind UCLA and USC.lol
Rams fire head coach Jeff Fisher.Yahoo!!!!!!!
PLUS Dan Dieforf who was an announcer for monday night football from 1983 to 1987,he came out and said in all his years as being an announcer for monday night football whenever they had the Raiders on,their home games where NEVER shown.
The networks never showed the Raiders games on monday night football because unlike the Rams,they had a half empty stadium every sunday out there even when they were great and won the superbowl.
The Raiders drew such horrible crowds out there they had to start tarping off the upper level seats.
Here is the proof they were never embraced in LA.the year after they won the superbowl,the next season,for their home opener,they only drew a crowd of just over 44,000
The Oakland Raiders might have won a superbowl out there in LA but clearly nobody in LA cared.
The Rams on the other hand,they had such large crowds they were on monday night football DOZENS of times in the 70's and 80's,you can look it up yourselves.
The reason they got so many home games in LA on monday night football was they had regular crowds that ALWAYS looked like this all the time.
No wonder Kroneke wanted the hell out of dodge the fact the rams most the time in stank louis,played in a place that looked liked a ghost town.
and a pic taken here in the 1976 season
AND a video of them playing against the then st louis cardinals in LA as you can see in the 1970's as well. This was ALWAYS the norm other than the early ninetys when they hated that evil ***** owner who dismanteled the team trading away eric dickerson and other ram greats making them a bad team,they hated the freaking OWNER cause they BEGGED her to seel the team and she would not.
you look in the stands IN THIS VIDEO,not an empty seat.
they understand you are a fool if you cheer on a spanos owned chargers team.
