Home field advantage?

[LARams_1963]

I am sorry, but I do not buy this theory. What about places that received a franchise for the first time or had not had a franchise in years? The population in those cities seem(ed) to gravitate towards their new team.

Funny you mention that... My thought was always the only teams that would make it here were the Rams, Raiders or expansion team. I think Expansion teams tend to be embraced, and one probably would have been here. When the Rams left LA that was the first year of the Panthers and Jags. I SWORE I was gonna be a Jags fan because the Rams left me and I had no bias towards the Jags.. Funny thing though, I seem to bleed Blue and Yellow so I had to keep rooting for the St Lou Rams. So same with other fans, they might have their favs, but they still might embrace a new expansion team seeing it's ne, unbiased, and their towns.

 

[Reddog99]

Funny you mention that... My thought was always the only teams that would make it here were the Rams, Raiders or expansion team. I think Expansion teams tend to be embraced, and one probably would have been here. When the Rams left LA that was the first year of the Panthers and Jags. I SWORE I was gonna be a Jags fan because the Rams left me and I had no bias towards the Jags.. Funny thing though, I seem to bleed Blue and Yellow so I had to keep rooting for the St Lou Rams. So same with other fans, they might have their favs, but they still might embrace a new expansion team seeing it's ne, unbiased, and their towns.

That sounds like me except I didn't become a Rams fan until 03 so to me they belonged in St. Louis and when they moved I got upset and was gonna choose a different team to root for but that never happened and I couldn't be happier

 

[bluecoconuts]

Bidwill had his fans broiling for 18 years not 8 in Sun Devil stadium.

Speaking of broiling, you should check out a home game. Shit is miserable. Yes a new stadium will help.

See: Staples Center and LA Live vs the Forum.

 

[12intheBox]

Misery loves company



View: https://twitter.com/bykevinclark/status/1183812010636500997?s=20

 

[Angry Ram]

I am sorry, but I do not buy this theory. What about places that received a franchise for the first time or had not had a franchise in years? The population in those cities seem(ed) to gravitate towards their new team.

LA is a transplant city. Same as San Diego, Miami, Houston, Dallas, NYC, etc.

There is work and/or retirement to be had.

No one is willingly going to move to Detroit or Cleveland.

 

[kurtfaulk]

Speaking of broiling, you should check out a home game. Shit is miserable. Yes a new stadium will help.

See: Staples Center and LA Live vs the Forum.

You got that right. Give the fans a comfortable setting and I'm positive they will be less inclined to offload their tickets.

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[EasyE]

That comment is inaccurate. Location does not have much to do with getting free agents, otherwise small market teams would never compete.

i can't remember a great free agent we landed while in Missouri....jog my memory

 

[nanotech]

Since many of you don't seem to get it i'll say it again since we get one of these threads after every home game.

These fans aren't traveling. They live in So Cal. That's the difference between West coast transplant cities and East coast cities. It's not about bad fans. It's about geography and climate. No one migrates East and brings their Rams, Chargers, Cardinals, Seahawks, 49ers, Broncos fandom with them to Philadelphia or NY or Milwaukee or Boston.

Deal with it and stop whining every other week.

Data

 

[Mojo Ram]

Data

 

[Reddog99]

i can't remember a great free agent we landed while in Missouri....jog my memory

Does Wes Welker and Nick Foles count? I think they were still in St. Louis at that time not 100% sure though.

 

[nanotech]

K

 

[Mojo Ram]

K

When you quote me try using a complete sentence with punctuation and maybe we can get somewhere.

K ?

 

[nanotech]

K

Does that mean you can't produse?

 

[nanotech]

punctuation

Where is the somewhere you would like to go?

 

[GoodBadUgly]

This thread blows me away. Are you guys just realizing what going to games in LA is like? Noobs.

I went to the game last Thursday in Seattle and witnessed the crazoid Hawk fans with a small sense of disappointment that I’d never see that during the regular season in LA. BUT I DON’T EXPECT IT. Should I expect blood from a turnip?

The playoffs rock in LA. Some of my best life memories are of incredible Dodger, Ram and Kings playoffs. Too poor to see Laker playoffs. Anyway, CLEAR home advantage.

The regular season is like dress rehearsal for the actual performance. It is how LA rolls.

Why the shock?

 

[Ramit]

Pretty much heard the same complaint from a Packer fan after the Eagles game in Green Bay. I wonder, do you ever bitch when Rams fans outnumber their opponent's fans in their opponent's stadium?

Take your BS somewhere else. There is no place for you here.

 

[Raptorman]

Take your BS somewhere else. There is no place for you here.

I'm sure others would disagree.

That comment is inaccurate. Location does not have much to do with getting free agents, otherwise small market teams would never compete.

Actually, for years it was a problem in Green Bay. The late 70's and 80's free agents wanted nothing to do with Green Bay. Then some defensive guy went there and Brett Favre showed up and everything changed.

 

[RamsSince1969]

This just in. Here is another take on the situation.

Markazi: NFL's failure to understand L.A. is hurting experience for Rams and Chargers fans

After abandoning the Los Angeles market for more than two decades, the NFL isn't taking the right approach when it comes Rams and Chargers fans.

www.latimes.com

 

[Ellard80]

This just in. Here is another take on the situation.

Markazi: NFL's failure to understand L.A. is hurting experience for Rams and Chargers fans

After abandoning the Los Angeles market for more than two decades, the NFL isn't taking the right approach when it comes Rams and Chargers fans.

www.latimes.com

Yeah... I understand like most things - it a lot more complicated than "LA sports fans suck," which I haven't been saying.

This article however is blaming everything on the fact that there hasn't been any NFL teams in LA for 21 years. Which isn't the entire reason either.

 

[jetplt67]

The Rams used to come here to play the Cardinals in the early 2000s and the Rams fans were louder and seemed to be more plentiful. I think it happens to many teams but in LA it is happening quite often. There's nothing we can do about it.

Statistically: I wonder if you look 10 years in the future, would the Rams have a better away record than other teams due to the fact that the team is accustomed to loud opposing team's fans??