Los Angeles hasn’t had a team since the 90’s, when both its teams left because Los Angeles only likes winners and the Rams and Raiders are not winners. Also because their owners were snooty rich people (The Rams) or insane (The Raiders). Since then however, the NFL has grown significantly in popularity, and yet we still don’t have a team in the second biggest media market in the country. Most teams seem to be using LA more as a scare tactic to get their current city citizens to pay for new stadiums instead of actually moving. Remember those couple of weeks a few years ago when the Vikings were flirting with LA? Then Minneapolis folded and approved the stadium deal and Zygi Wilf laughed all the way to the bank. Then it was the Bills, and then Buffalo paid for the stadium upgrades, and Ralph Wilson laughed all the way to the bank. Then died. He was probably laughing as he did though.
Right now we’ve got an awkward threesome of teams all trying to see if they can make this LA relationship happen. One of them, possibly 2, but at least 1 is going to end up in LA in the next few years. The Rams seem to be the closest. The question is will they remain the Rams? What if they pull a Browns or Oilers and change their name when they end up in LA? Lets look at a few possible ideas they might go with.
- Watch a football game in a cramped stadium in a bad part of town surrounded by drunk assholes shouting around us at our bad team? Nah, we’d rather go outside since our weather doesn’t suck. Sports teams are for cities with bad weather, because their citizens have nothing else they can do with their miserable lives. Am I right, Green Bay?