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[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
Does anybody really care about the Raiders Greg, come on really.[/quote]
Dude, every mexican I know LOVES the Raiders.[/quote]
I was going to say this. Raiders and Cowboys, and that’s IT.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
No one liked the Rams when they were in LA last time lol
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
No one liked the Rams when they were in LA last time lol[/quote]
Oh so very true, but Georgia Frontiere was a cheap-O who refused to help fund a new stadium…
If the NFL is gonna go back to L.A. (and it really has too) it is gonna want two teams that have deep pockets (net worth of Kroenke 3.5 Billion, his wife is worth more) and that have good relationships with the political scene in L.A.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
No one liked the Rams when they were in LA last time lol[/quote]
Oh so very true, but Georgia Frontiere was a cheap-O who refused to help fund a new stadium…
If the NFL is gonna go back to L.A. (and it really has too) it is gonna want two teams that have deep pockets (net worth of Kroenke 3.5 Billion, his wife is worth more) and that have good relationships with the political scene in L.A. [/quote]
LA just isnt an NFL town. I dont think that a team will work there long term, wether that be the Raiders, Rams, Jags or Bucs. No way any one of those teams does well in the LA market.
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
No one liked the Rams when they were in LA last time lol[/quote]
Oh so very true, but Georgia Frontiere was a cheap-O who refused to help fund a new stadium…
If the NFL is gonna go back to L.A. (and it really has too) it is gonna want two teams that have deep pockets (net worth of Kroenke 3.5 Billion, his wife is worth more) and that have good relationships with the political scene in L.A. [/quote]
LA just isnt an NFL town. I dont think that a team will work there long term, wether that be the Raiders, Rams, Jags or Bucs. No way any one of those teams does well in the LA market.
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The reasoning for your scepticism is that L.A. is a town full of transplants, so they will continue to root for their own teams teams from their home towns… But so are Miami, San Diego, Phoenix ect.
Both attempts at having football in L.A. were unsuccessful because they played in the Coliseum and the Rose Bowl…two SHITTY NFL stadiums.
With the right stadiums and owners the NFL (much more business savvy than they were when the Raiders and Rams fled) will be HUGE in L.A.
Brian Dunn, CEO of Bestbuy
[quote]theuofh wrote:
Brian Dunn, CEO of Bestbuy[/quote]
Wut??
Im VERY okay with the Buc moving to L.A. Jags,not so much. The Texans need a punching bag. Rams would be a good move,they have history and plus I dont ever see anybody in St. Louis go crazy for their team. Rumor has it that Vikings might want to move too and since L.A. took Minnesota basketball team it would go with the theme of purple and yellow.
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
Does anybody really care about the Raiders Greg, come on really.[/quote]
Dude, every mexican I know LOVES the Raiders.[/quote]
I was going to say this. Raiders and Cowboys, and that’s IT.[/quote]
Lol even if they don’t like football you will find a Raider flag or a Cowboy sweater in their house somewhere…
Weird
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
They’ll never move back to LA. Frontiere moved the team out of LA precisely because they had become irrelevant there. Kroenke was a minority owner at the time and he remembers how dismal it got there and how fast. They went from being one of the top teams in the league and a pretty big draw in 1989 to completely gone and in St. Louis by the end of the 1994 season. They just didn’t draw well.
The Raiders’ situation down there was totally different. They didn’t draw that well either, but they were in a way bigger and older stadium, so unless they were selling 100,000 tickets to seats with no backs to them (the Coliseum was all bleacher seating then) they were blacked out. The city of LA refused to build a new stadium even though they heavily insinuated that they would, hence Davis’ lawsuit against the city and the NFL to move back to Oakland.
Besides, if there’s one team that does belong in LA, it’s still the Raiders, by default more than anything else. They still have a lot of fans there and Oakland simply does not deserve a professional sports team, period. It’s a shithole of a city with absolutely zero redeeming qualities. The crime rate is so high it’s starting to make Detroit look like Martha’s Vineyard.
The Warriors are actively looking into purchasing land for a new arena next to the Giants ballpark in SF and the A’s are probably willing to move to fucking Sacramento if it means getting out of Oakland. Sports teams, outside of the Warriors for some reason, have never drawn well in Oakland, ever. The Raiders rarely sold out back in their heyday and the A’s didn’t draw well even when they won three World Series in a row. Shit, my dad went to every game of the 1973 ALCS at Oakland and bought tickets at the stadium an hour before the game each time.
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]inkaddict wrote:
[quote]Ct. Rockula wrote:
[quote]Derek542 wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
Does anybody really care about the Raiders Greg, come on really.[/quote]
Dude, every mexican I know LOVES the Raiders.[/quote]
I was going to say this. Raiders and Cowboys, and that’s IT.[/quote]
Lol even if they don’t like football you will find a Raider flag or a Cowboy sweater in their house somewhere…
Weird[/quote]
[quote]beerbarbq wrote:
WTF? The man has millions and he goes with the friar tuck haircut? Is this Tommy Boy?[/quote]
Innovative use of the helmet.
[quote]DBCooper wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
[quote]gregron wrote:
Jags new owner already said he isn’t moving the team.
Raiders said they want a new stadium in Oakland or they’re moving into the new one that’s being built in LA.
I don’t think the Bucs are going anywhere. No one in LA will care about a team from Florida coming out there but they’d care about the Raiders.[/quote]
The Ram’s are gonna be the first team in L.A. and maybe not the last. Stan Kroenke is on the NFL’s relocation committee and is tight with the CEO of AIG (stadium builders in downtown L.A.)[/quote]
They’ll never move back to LA. Frontiere moved the team out of LA precisely because they had become irrelevant there. Kroenke was a minority owner at the time and he remembers how dismal it got there and how fast. They went from being one of the top teams in the league and a pretty big draw in 1989 to completely gone and in St. Louis by the end of the 1994 season. They just didn’t draw well.
The Raiders’ situation down there was totally different. They didn’t draw that well either, but they were in a way bigger and older stadium, so unless they were selling 100,000 tickets to seats with no backs to them (the Coliseum was all bleacher seating then) they were blacked out. The city of LA refused to build a new stadium even though they heavily insinuated that they would, hence Davis’ lawsuit against the city and the NFL to move back to Oakland.
Besides, if there’s one team that does belong in LA, it’s still the Raiders, by default more than anything else. They still have a lot of fans there and Oakland simply does not deserve a professional sports team, period. It’s a shithole of a city with absolutely zero redeeming qualities. The crime rate is so high it’s starting to make Detroit look like Martha’s Vineyard.
The Warriors are actively looking into purchasing land for a new arena next to the Giants ballpark in SF and the A’s are probably willing to move to fucking Sacramento if it means getting out of Oakland. Sports teams, outside of the Warriors for some reason, have never drawn well in Oakland, ever. The Raiders rarely sold out back in their heyday and the A’s didn’t draw well even when they won three World Series in a row. Shit, my dad went to every game of the 1973 ALCS at Oakland and bought tickets at the stadium an hour before the game each time.[/quote]
The NFL of today is not even close to the NFL during that time period. The NFL of the 80’s and 90’s was not the overwhelming Juggernaut that it is today (as popular as MLB and the NBA combined).
You cannot compare anything from the past to what it would be today…better stadiums and funding. The reason that Jeff Fisher was wavering on coaching the Rams is because he did not want to coach another transition franchise.
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
The reason that Jeff Fisher was wavering on coaching the Rams is because the team blows and they arent sure if they actually have their QB of the future because he’s been hurt and if he’s not the guy in STL then they’re kinda screwed because of how much money they gave him[/quote]
^^Fixed
[quote]gregron wrote:
[quote]UtahLama wrote:
The reason that Jeff Fisher was wavering on coaching the Rams is because the team blows and they arent sure if they actually have their QB of the future because he’s been hurt and if he’s not the guy in STL then they’re kinda screwed because of how much money they gave him[/quote]
^^Fixed[/quote]
LOL.
I would say that he was wondering if he really wanted to be in the same division as the Jets and Pats for the next 5 years.
Or perhaps in the weaker West with a potential long term young QB, the second pick in the draft and a 49’er-esq possible jump next season.
/the Rams were picked to get into the playoffs by CNNSI and SI pre-season.
http://www.nfl.com/news/story/09000d5d825f4ea5/article/fisher-set-to-be-next-rams-head-coach
Well its official, now all he has to do is move to LA. 