As someone who sat in many a seat watching the Rams in Anaheim most Ca fans are fair weather.....unless it's baseball.
If the Rams stink and the Chargers win they will gain some traction.
Yeah, no doubt. LA fans will stop showing up for any struggling team that isn't the Lakers or Dodgers. But what they won't do is switch allegiances if they've already chosen a team. At least not easily. It think it would take years of seasons like last year's (please god, no) combined with the Chargers not only winning but winning
pretty for the for fanbases to even out.
It is entirely possible if both teams struggle or not they are outdrawn by USC.
That's entirely possible even if they don't struggle. USC looks like it's headed for another nice run - maybe not a Pete Carroll run, but you never know - and any time they look promising the Coliseum fills up like an overflowing bathtub. I was a student there during the Pete Carroll days and by about 2004 it was damned near impossible get into that stadium, even the lame bleacher seats next the peristyle.
USC fans are the perfect example of LA fans. If the team is good they'll show up and turn each game into a party, and poor opposing QBs have to listen to 90,000 people yelling "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh" as loud as they can every third down. If the team isn't good, the diehards will still show up but most of the others will just figure out something better to do and wait for the team to get better. But they'll never switch allegiance.
You make a good point about the Chargers bring San Diegos team. They are. Just as people outside of So Cal didn't understand the impact when the Rams moved to Anaheim.....it wasn't LA.
Absolutely. We Angelenos are a proud and fierce people. Well not really, we're actually laid back as fuck. But goddammit if we don't dislike the OC. And we don't like San Diego either, whenever it is that we actually think about San Diego.
At any rate, Spanos is a royal tool. The people of San Diego didn't care enough to save them. Spanos wants out of a lease in San Diego to pay a lease in LA.
He is a dummy with a bad come over. I can't imagine anyone who spent time in SD, even someone not a charger fan like me, can do anything but loath Spanos.
He is constantly screwing up his team and is pissing on the Rams not letting them have LA.
F Spanos.
He got played. Like Stan or hate Stan, he absolutely destroyed Spanos. Spanos had 20 years as the only team in Southern California. If he'd ever made any serious inroads about moving to LA he would've totally had first dibs. To lose out the way he did is
spectacular. He not only lost the majority of his 56-year-old fanbase by moving to a city they can't stand, he's also the B team in a market that was already saturated when the Rams made their splash a year before.
