Enthusiasm among rams fans.

[Redman443]

So I just found this article.
More People In LA Watched Patriots-Chiefs Than Rams-Saints

Plus I’ve heard that the rams have had issues filling their own stadium. Cowboy fans were about even with rams fans in the divisional round. A packers friend of mine said that packers fans outnumbered rams fans in LA when they played. I’m surprised about the enthusiasm gap between pats fans and rams fans. Does this mean that super bowl will be about 60-30 pats fans? I’m guessing they just don’t have a large market.

 

[ErniesPinkStripes]

So I just found this article.
More People In LA Watched Patriots-Chiefs Than Rams-Saints

Plus I’ve heard that the rams have had issues filling their own stadium. Cowboy fans were about even with rams fans in the divisional round. A packers friend of mine said that packers fans outnumbered rams fans in LA when they played. I’m surprised about the enthusiasm gap between pats fans and rams fans. Does this mean that super bowl will be about 60-30 pats fans? I’m guessing they just don’t have a large market.

...why?

 

[tasmlab]

It's a little bit different since they used to be there years ago, but it's almost like an expansion team that will take years to have the locals embrace them. Given that probably lots of folk in Misura abandoned them, that LA is now split with two teams, and that LA never gelled as a football town, pretty much makes a fan base hard to come by, IMO.

 

[Redman443]

...why?

It’s not like they’re a new nfl team. They’ve been in Los Angeles twice and have existed since I believe the 50s but I might be wrong.

 

[gitgronked82]

So I just found this article.
More People In LA Watched Patriots-Chiefs Than Rams-Saints

Plus I’ve heard that the rams have had issues filling their own stadium. Cowboy fans were about even with rams fans in the divisional round. A packers friend of mine said that packers fans outnumbered rams fans in LA when they played. I’m surprised about the enthusiasm gap between pats fans and rams fans. Does this mean that super bowl will be about 60-30 pats fans? I’m guessing they just don’t have a large market.

I will bet any amount of money that it won’t be 60-30 pats fans

Unless u mean just 10% corporate that don’t care

Also I wonder if they would be more likely to do a trip to the Super Bowl as like an “event” than to go to a home game? Idk, just guessing based on stereotypes I can think of

 

[Redman443]

I will bet any amount of money that it won’t be 60-30 pats fans

Unless u mean just 10% corporate that don’t care

Also I wonder if they would be more likely to do a trip to the Super Bowl as like an “event” than to go to a home game? Idk, just guessing based on stereotypes I can think of

It makes it hard for me to hate them. Last year I despised Philly because their fans are one of the most obnoxious and classless fanbases I’ve ever seen. Rams are like “woooho we’re in the super bowl.”

 

[SammyBlueCat]

Who?

 

[Hammer of Thor]

It’s not like they’re a new nfl team. They’ve been in Los Angeles twice and have existed since I believe the 50s but I might be wrong.

Moved to LA from Cleveland in 1946 and had huge fan support at the time.

Ultimate issue was they wound up moving to Anaheim in the 80s, which was generally considered 2nd rate (think of how the Angels are viewed versus the Dodgers), and the Raiders came to town during their prime Al Davis era years, actually were housed in LA, and took the place by storm. Then Rams ownership got lax and didn't really market the team well and threatened to move, which turned fans off. Then the Raiders and Rams both moved away at the same time.

That upset a lot of people, but the real problem was the NFL letting the market sit dormant for 20 years in the cable and then internet era, where it's possible for people to follow their hometown teams very easily instead of adopting the local team. Given that LA is a very transient place, that significantly hurt them. People just got used to having no local team and ultimately didn't care about that fact, either because they could follow their old hometown team, or they were locals who felt the NFL didn't care about them so they focused on the colleges who did.

And then, of course, when the NFL finally returns, they pull the dumb move of putting 2 teams there immediately instead of letting one regain the NFL fan base. And the double-whammy of the second team having essentially no history in that city, rather than choosing the team that had a huge following (Raiders).

In time being a Rams fan will be chic again. Once the new stadium is built, the Rams stay competitive, and the 10 year old local kids who are likely the Rams biggest fans now start becoming adults. This Super Bowl will certainly help. But they're not anywhere near there yet.

 

[Redman443]

Moved to LA from Cleveland in 1946 and had huge fan support at the time.

Ultimate issue was they wound up moving to Anaheim in the 80s, which was generally considered 2nd rate (think of how the Angels are viewed versus the Dodgers), and the Raiders came to town during their prime Al Davis era years, actually were housed in LA, and took the place by storm. Then Rams ownership got lax and didn't really market the team well and threatened to move, which turned fans off. Then the Raiders and Rams both moved away at the same time.

That upset a lot of people, but the real problem was the NFL letting the market sit dormant for 20 years in the cable and then internet era, where it's possible for people to follow their hometown teams very easily instead of adopting the local team. Given that LA is a very transient place, that significantly hurt them. People just got used to having no local team and ultimately didn't care about that fact, either because they could follow their old hometown team, or they were locals who felt the NFL didn't care about them so they focused on the colleges who did.

And then, of course, when the NFL finally returns, they pull the dumb move of putting 2 teams there immediately instead of letting one regain the NFL fan base. And the double-whammy of the second team having essentially no history in that city, rather than choosing the team that had a huge following (Raiders).

In time being a Rams fan will be chic again. Once the new stadium is built, the Rams stay competitive, and the 10 year old local kids who are likely the Rams biggest fans now start becoming adults. This Super Bowl will certainly help. But they're not anywhere near there yet.

I’ve legitimately never met a rams fan in the past 10 years. My 6th grade teacher was a huge rams fan but that was when they were in St. Louis and She was from STL.

 

[TB_Helmet]

I don't know what you're talking about. They are super pumped up in bars across LA. Evidence:

 

[Redman443]

I don't know what you're talking about. They are super pumped up in bars across LA. Evidence:

They were throwing a huge party

 

[PlainOldEd]

I will bet any amount of money that it won’t be 60-30 pats fans

Unless u mean just 10% corporate that don’t care

Also I wonder if they would be more likely to do a trip to the Super Bowl as like an “event” than to go to a home game? Idk, just guessing based on stereotypes I can think of

I'd guess something like 30% Pats, 40% anyone but the pats, 10% DGAF, 20% Rams.

 

[Nikolai]

My brother, who lives in Los Angeles, didn't know the Rams had relocated there until a season and a half had passed. His entire circle of friends are in the same boat, though I know one of them is a casual Steeler fan.

 

[Pat the Pats Fan]

I don't know what you're talking about. They are super pumped up in bars across LA. Evidence:

Probably cheering that the game was over and they can turn on “nailed it “

 

[IllegalContact]

It's LA

 

[Redman443]

It's LA

Makes it hard for me to hate or dislike them. There’s not much to hate.

 

[chris_in_sunnyvale]

I went to the Pats '92 opener* in Anaheim. Horrible stadium configuration for football. Bought tickets at the ticket window after kickoff. Lousy support.

I hear from a long-time Rams fan friend the 80s were better with ****erson and a decent rivalry with a great 49ers team which fit in well with the NoCal/SoCal rivalry more pronounced then. Rams/Seahawks doesn't invoke the same natural hate.

* Delayed a week by Hurricane Andrew.

Regards,
Chris

 

[IllegalContact]

Makes it hard for me to hate or dislike them. There’s not much to hate.

there's nothing to hate/dislike ........ just sushi at Oki Doki in Hermosa Beach and Fish Tacos at Playa Hermosa and everything is fine

 

[Kontradiction]

I don't know what you're talking about. They are super pumped up in bars across LA. Evidence:

You can't fake that kind of passion.

"What does that mean?" HAHAHAHAHAHA.

 

[tasmlab]

I’ve legitimately never met a rams fan in the past 10 years. My 6th grade teacher was a huge rams fan but that was when they were in St. Louis and She was from STL.

I HAD one in MA from St. Louis but he gave up on the team when they moved to LA, which I'm sure many did.