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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Volkerball posted:

i dont think any nfl stadium is on a campus.

The Rams will play at the Colliseum which is closer to the USC campus than the proposed Tropicana site is to UNLV

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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

ftfy

Also, my man :hfive:

Also, you don't go gambling to win money or break even, you go there to get extra enjoyment out spending the money. A bunch of us from work organize a trip to Reno every year, becuase the nicest hotels are as cheap as mediocre places in vegas, and when you're on the casino floor or the sports book, who cares where it is. Plus all of the game minimums are cheap as hell, even when its crowded.

Good Acceptable stuff :)

The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 05:00 on May 28, 2016

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

They should still build it there, but entirely underground

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Sorry, I think you meant to post this photo

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Chichevache posted:

:lol: in San Francisco those prices are cheaper than most bars.

Jesus, find better bars

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Chichevache posted:

We use dischord now.

Whats the discord channel? Seems like games might be better to GDT in there than in threads sometimes

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Zurreco posted:

If Chargers go to the new Kroenkedome, they won't get concessions money, parking money, advertising money, etc because Stan would never cede that to Spanos.

I thought that Stan was forced to give some of it to the tenant team as part of the bargain for him to get permission to move to LA

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


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chupacabraTERROR posted:

Couldn't they, you know, unapprove it? Just because they liked the idea a year ago doesn't mean that they haven't changed their minds in the last 12 months. The Rams awful attendance, the Raiders recent successes, and the Chargers being wholly uncompetitive are all relevant factors in the question of Can/Will LA Support The Chargers?

"Official" attendance is over 83K a game, which is second the NFL, they just happen to play in a stadium for 95K. But yeah, I also know that even though that number is the official number, there are a ton of people who aren't going and tons of people who are leaving early when they get blown out. Still, its not exactly a disaster right now.


It is worth noting, they were planning on capping attendance at 80K before the season by not selling the bleacher seats (USC Student section and visitors sections), but decided to sell them as cheap seats after high early sales (when people were expecting a good season)

The Glumslinger fucked around with this message at 22:59 on Dec 14, 2016

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Akileese posted:

If they rebrand the team they can eventually threaten to move another team back to San Diego as the Chargers.

fixed that for you

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

a neat cape posted:

They retrofitted the coliseum last year. And it seats a lot of people.

Sam Boyd seats like 20k

Nah, the Coliseum hasn't had significant renovations in ages, in recent years all that has happened was redoing the bathrooms, adding a giant screen, and adding credit card support at the concession stands (this only happened 4 or 5 years ago). There are big plans over the next 2-3 years for Coliseum, to actually (kinda) modernize it by redoing the seating, the stairs (cutting each section in half with an extra stair case), building a new media box and luxury boxes, and possibly a canopy to prevent the student section from melting in the sun

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

FCKGW posted:

Everyone hates LA but it's always one sided and LA is oblivious to any kind of rivalry. Talk to anyone in the bay area and they can tell you about some intense "SF-LA rivalry" but no one in LA will have any clue what you're talking about and don't think about any other cities ever.

It's pretty funny.

The only city LA hates is Boston

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

It was down less than league wide viewership dropped

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
The chargers (or whatever they get named) wont last a decade in LA

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

corn on the cop posted:

i'm not sure what they did this year could qualify as making inroads

Presumably there are a lot of Gurley and Goff jerseys gathering dust in people's closets right now, so kind of

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Leperflesh posted:

Why would he only get a "cut" of PSLs? Every seat in the house can be sold twice, once for Rams games and once for Chargers games. The only time they ever have to split revenue is when the Chargers play the Rams at home.

The real question is whether that article Febreeze posted is correct that they'll have no problem selling out the PSLs and luxury boxes on day 1 for the Chargers in LA. If they do, that money so massively dwarfs game-day ticket sales that he could have the stadium half-empty for every game and not sweat it.

If the article is wrong, though, we'll know pretty quickly that this was a massive boondoggle.

Stan will likely get a cut of all of the Chargers PSLs since he owns the stadium, plus many boxes aren't sold to season tickets to a team, but as tickets to every event (atleast in Staples Center which is a good example of multi-use stadiums).


The truth is that which ever team does better in the short term will probably build a bigger following, but the Chargers would have to be very successful to build up one larger than the one they are leaving behind. Plus, in LA the chargers aren't coming in as outsiders, they were already an acceptable "local" choice before the rams moved back, I cant say that they had a following anywhere near any of the existing major LA teams

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

A Man and his dog posted:

WE WEAR LA ON OUR CHEST!

Guy: Uhhhh, you guys just moved into the neighborhood.

Other guy: You haven't even moved in yet

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Proud Christian Mom posted:

Really I'm happy that voters are finally telling sports teams to get hosed when they come hat in hand for half a bil and up

This is the real reason LA hasn't had a team for 20 years, not anything about the market or the fans. They told everyone to fuckoff for public funding, and it took entirely privately financed stadium for anything to get built

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Intruder posted:

The Raiders move would happen in a couple years IIRC

Thats still up for discussion, they might play in the UNLV stadium, since the Chargers have already set the precedent of playing in a tiny rear end stadium while waiting for construction to be finished

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Chinatown posted:

they dont sell zima in the US anymore

Well, why do you think he is puking

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

The other 64% of everything still goes to Kroenke, so its really a 82/18 split

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
How long till they move to St Louis?

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf
https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/838878602099896321

So Vegas might not be dead afterall

The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Grittybeard posted:

I wonder what makes you register a domain on Christmas day?

Lease disputes

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The Glumslinger
Sep 24, 2008

Coach Nagy, you want me to throw to WHAT side of the field?


Hair Elf

Leperflesh posted:

hmm yes, the richest media markets should always have the best teams, that makes perfect sense

Agreed, unironically

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