Chargers move to LA continues to be a disaster
In addition to their third-straight losss to start the 2017 season, the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers drew another embarrassingly small crowd for their divisional "home" game against the Kansas City Chiefs according to Ryan Phillips of TheBigLead.com.
How bad was it? There were plenty of empty seats on display in a venue that only seats 27,000-the smallest venue by far in the NFL and smaller than more than 100 college venues. And many of the people in the stands were rooting for the Chiefs instead of the Chargers. It was so bad that, according to Phillips, " the Chargers knew the crowd was so pro-Chiefs that they didn’t even do player introductions over the public address system due to fears their own players would get booed. In their home stadium. In a new city the league told us was so desperate to have the NFL that it could support two teams. A city Dean Spanos said contained 25 percent of the team’s fans.
The scene at StubHub Center Sunday will do nothing to quiet the rumors that the NFL wants the Chargers to abandon the LA experiment and return to San Diego. That seems unlikely to happen but the NFL is getting exactly what it deserves in allowing and even encouraging the Chargers and the Rams to dump their former cities and move to sunny LA. It is not exactly as if the Rams are wowing the state of California-they can barely draw half of the fans that USC does in their temporary home and the crowd for the Rams' Week 2 home loss included a liberal dose of transplanted Redskins fans cheering loudly for their team.
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