Funny how it’s always people who don’t live in the city that denigrate L.A. fans.
No, the NFL granted the Chargers a debt waiver. They will pay it off over whatever time frame they agree to. It could be 30 years. Something else you’re not getting is that ticket revenue is shared across the league. So your hypothetical $50 million loss is spread out over 31 other teams. Then add in the fact that ticket sales are a small fraction of total revenue and mitigates that loss even further.
No, this is wrong. The Chargers and Rams will jointly share revenue from naming rights.
Los Angeles is made up of over 20 other communities from the ocean to the mountains and desert. Week-ends are RV’s and ATV’s or Vegas runs or North to wine country or any where besides a football game. Like San Diego they are weather orientated and could just stay home after a visit to home Depot and watch the game.
I love both San Diego and LA … one reason I just heard was that the new stadium deal will only cost the LA Chargers one dollar a year.
On the bright side:Mike McCoy, former Chargers head coach, to return as Broncos offensive coordinator - SBNation.com
Mike McCoy, former Chargers head coach, to return as Broncos offensive coordinator
According to multiple stories, Spanos intends to pay the fee in the course of 10 years. See, for example: this ESPN story.
18.75% of it to each, yes, it turns out. That does help.
Up until today, they were expected to take the debt waiver. They still might. I only brought it up because you seem to think it “seriously weird.” Even at the full $55 million/year it is not weird. It is the cost of doing a whole lot more business.
I don’t know if you’re being sarcastic or not, but MetLife shelled out $400 million to be the home of the Giants and Jets stadium. And that deal will be almost 10 years old by the time the LA stadium is ready.
So do you still think the financials are seriously weird?
I saw a similar meme taken from a disney cartoon with large felines – which works better because that team has never made it to the show, unlike San Diego. Let me see, what other team has never made it – oh, Houston is one. Now that would be a good one.
Go Chargers … Go on to be the great team that you can be even if it is in LA
What the heck I don’t live in San Diego anymore so go
That and they are “front runner” fans as if LA is the only city in America where poorly playing teams draw low attendances.
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St Louis was also such a city, appropriately enough.
Question: Why do Dodger fans always seem to arrive late and leave early?
I’ll say this for Dodger fans: that franchise has draw at least two million fans every year since 1972. If you look at the two New York teams, the Yankees can only claim that back to 1996 and the Mets since 1998.
That’s tickets sold, not butts in seats for nine innings.
Traffic
Actually for quite a few years the National League figures were for fans at the ballpark while the American League used tickets sold. It got standardized to the American League way sometime in the Selig regime, which pretty much eliminated league offices.
Regardless, the Dodgers are always attendance leaders but I think that the weather has a lot to do with it. You’re almost never going to have rain outs or extreme hot or cold.
There are basically two egresses from the stadium, which is located in a small and elevated valley nestled between hills. One leads through surface streets, and the other to one of the oldest (and possibly smallest) highways in the country, the 110 freeway, right near the heart of downtown. You can have your butt in your car for two hours, or you can leave a few minutes early. You decide.
Chalk this up as a win for the SD taxpayers. Finally.
The LAme Chargers are now history and quickly forgotten.
A little more evidence of just how much of a cluster-f*** the move has been: On ESPN.com, Adam Schefter reports that there’s quite a lot of “buyer’s remorse” in the NFL over the move (you’ll need to scroll down a bit to find the item):