In Classic Rams fashion, LA residents watched LESS football after the move

[chasa]

An astounding turn: After Rams moved, fewer people watched the NFL in LA

Nielsen reports that 8 percent of homes in the LA market tuned in to Fox’s NFL telecasts this season — down from 8.3 percent in 2015, when the Rams were in St. Louis. These figures are for all NFL games shown on Fox, not just those of the Rams.

Fox carried 12 Rams games this season in LA, and those averaged an 8.3 rating. In St. Louis the previous season, where the team still was playing, Fox affiliate KTVI (Channel 2) averaged a 19.7 rating for its 12 Rams telecasts.

IMO good, F the league, and F what the rams did to St Luis.

 

[cupofjoe1962]

If we had to watch Jeff Fisher coach, I would probably poke my eyes out with a pencil.

I am glad the fired that bozo. He is not qualified to coach a flag football team.

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Perhaps this will lead to sharing the Rams between the cities.

Los Louis Rams
St. Angeles Rams

 

[FourierSeries]

@STLRAMBRINGER get in this thread, I need to listen to you crying some more.

 

[PatsGuy]

Watching the Oprah Network was more tittllating than watching Rams football

 

[Nikolai]

Anyone who knew anything about Los Angeles could have predicted this.

If you think Angelinos are apathetic about sports, put a loser in town and watch true apathy. Just ask the pre-2010s Clippers.

 

[mgcolby]

An astounding turn: After Rams moved, fewer people watched the NFL in LA



IMO good, F the league, and F what the rams did to St Luis.

Well to be fair Rams did it to LA before they did it to STL.

 

[micronin127]

Well, when they had no home team, they always got the featured game on FOX. A good game.

Now, they have to watch the Rams, every single week. And let's face it, there was some ugly football and bad games.

I bet there were a lot more subscriptions to Sunday Ticket for the transplants who used to get to see their teams once in a while who now were stuck with the Rams.

We are so lucky. The make us watch the Patriots! That's awesome.

 

[AtomicDawg]

Found this on a Rams site, so appropriate (even though one is gone).....had me cracking up.

 

[NormZauchin]

Well to be fair Rams did it to LA before they did it to STL.

Actually, they did it to Cleveland before they did it to LA. The Rams have moved three times in their history, some sort of record.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Lemme guess...#1 rated game of the year. @ New England.

 

[anditsgood]

Actually, they did it to Cleveland before they did it to LA. The Rams have moved three times in their history, some sort of record.

I think the cards might hold that record (close with the Raiders)

 

[Jackson 2]

There is no such place as Los Angeles. Anything you have ever seen, heard about or read about actually took place on a movie set.

 

[varjao]

And they want to move the Chargers over there, its gonna be funny.

 

[patsfan-1982]

its LA they only go to lakers games to see the actors sitting in the front row. give them a winner and they will care the word bandwagon fan was made for them that's why LA went 20 years without a NFL team

 

[Tunescribe]

An astounding turn: After Rams moved, fewer people watched the NFL in LA



IMO good, F the league, and F what the rams did to St Luis.

Perhaps ratings were down because all the folks who normally watched on TV actually attended the Rams home games?

 

[pdangle]

And they want to move the Chargers over there, its gonna be funny.

Open your notebook, this is a classic example of NFL using media misinformation to manufacture leverage by falsely higher demand than exists.

SD called that bluff last year. And the team owner came crawling back after the NFL owners (in an unprecedented move IMO) said, nope, you can't go there.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

The Raiders are the only team that made sense....they'd be returning and (unless I have the wrong feel on this) they'd be GAINING more fans while hardly losing any (I don't see moving from Oakland to LA as being unforgivable to a fanbase, as moving to St. Louis to LA is)

The Rams lost basically the entire St. Louis fanbase while not picking up too many new fans in LA, Raiders would have just retained their fanbase AND add more.

 

[NormZauchin]

I think the cards might hold that record (close with the Raiders)

The Cardinals were in Chicago for many years (1920-1959) before moving to St. Louis after the 1959 season. They have switched cities twice. Same with the Raiders, Oakland to LA and back to Oakland.
Thankfully, the Pats have only moved down the road to Foxboro, while changing their name to the "more inclusive" New England. It was the Cardinals departure for Arizona that left St. Louis without a team and almost resulted in James Orthwein, owner of the Patriots in 1992 and 1993, moving them west. Somehow, the St. Louis Patriots does not sound right.

 

[italian pat patriot]

it must be really terrible for a fan to see his team mooving his franchise from a city-area to another one...terrible...honestly i do not like it...not at all...