I'm still surprised LA has been without an NFL franchise for a decade and a half.
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I'm still surprised LA has been without an NFL franchise for a decade and a half.
NFBuck;1870555; said:
I sorta am, but the attendance was awful for the Rams and no one bought any merchandise. Plus they played in a toilet. I assume that they will get this metropolis of a park made and one of the teams will transfer quickly. My money is on Jacksonville or Minnesota, though it could be a surprise entry like Carolina as well.
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Yeah, it's a fickle fanbase to be sure, but it's the nations second largest TV market and a new franchise would generate pretty strong interest I would suspect. The Vikes have some good pieces to market (Peterson/Harvin) and I'm sure they wouldn't be hesitant to spend on free agents.Bucklion;1870557; said:
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NFBuck;1870559; said:
I think a return to LA now would definitely be very successful. Unfortunately for the LA Rams, they peaked at the era when San Francisco was really good and there was a lot of quality depth (49ers, Dallas, Giants, Redskins, Bears) in the NFC. If they moved back I think they would have quite a bit of success with a new park.
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Crump's brother
Moxahala Park Carnie/ Rehoboth Strangler
When you couple atrocious attendance with the second-largest market, you can end up with a huge loss in ratings if a game is blacked out.
Wasn't stealing the Lakers enough?
Wasn't stealing the Lakers enough?
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Jacksonville. Please let it be Jacksonville, the city that had no right getting a football team - a city who's getting a football team over a more deserving Baltimore started the dominoes falling the end result of which was the Browns moving to Baltimore and being replaced by a keystone cops version.
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JCOSU86;1871007; said:
+1
If I'm betting on a move its this one. They shot their wad getting the fans to show up this past season, choked at home to miss the playoffs and then kept a very unpopular coach after telling the fans it was playoffs or bust. They are done as far as local fan support (what little there was). All joking aside they also alienated a large group when they didn't draft St Tim of Gainesville.
The smart thing they did was sell the season tickets last year as multi year deals so they'll be able to show more sold tickets than asses in seats for a couple more years but if they aren't in the playoffs by then, they can kiss the baby. Its probably already too late.
I used to say this fucking shithole doesn't deserve an NFL team but the reality is they are getting the exact kind of dumb fuck, useless, inbred, spineless, dickless, white trash laden NFL team that a city like Jacksonville deserves.
Fuck this place.
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It was (is?) the owners god-damned obsession with warm weather sites that lead to a mid-major city getting an NFL team. Their snub of Baltimore was ridiculous and led to some of the moving bullshit issues we face today.
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JCOSU86;1871036; said:
I dare anyone to try and tell me they are more comfortable going to a 1pm Jaguar game than any cold weather game.
It's not "warm" weather, its like marching to fucking Bataan.
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Perhaps I should have said "obsession with Florida". I know as well as anyone that it gets damned cold in N. Florida in the Autumn/Winter.Jaxbuck;1871057; said:
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