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Originally Posted by caligrad
If you can barely get 21,000 seats filled at the Stub Hub center, with its capacity of 27,000, What makes you think you can fill 70,200 in the new Inglewood stadium? The Rams are doing better, reaching 50-60k. Not bad for the preseason.
Dean Spanos is an idiot for moving the team here. Wont be long before he begs the NFL for forgiveness and move the team back to San Diego or somewhere else. Doesn't matter how big of a media market LA is at 18+ million people. If advertisers see lackluster attendance for the games, they will pull out.
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This logic F&*(ing kills me.
The Chargers are playing in a 30,000 seat stadium because it is a better experience than the coliseum, it is closer to SD and the OC where their fans are, and they want to differentiate themselves from the Rams.
They sold ~25,000 season tickets. That is the most they could sell in a 30,000 stadium. They are required to withhold some for the other team and NFL officials (about 1,000) and they also withheld some for single game tickets. They could have sold more.
So for a preseason game, they sold all their tickets. Repeat, every ticket was sold. The reason you have 21,000 people show up is because 30% of the season ticket holders don't care to go to a preseason game. That is a good percentage.
The reason other teams can get 45,000 to go to a preseason game is because they have a 70,000 stadium with 35,000 season tickets. They give away the other 25,000 tickets. The Chargers don't have those extra tickets because they only have a 30,000 seat stadium.
The Chargers will be fine and I bet do better than the Rams. No doubt the Raiders would have more fans if they moved back, but the Rams haven't been in LA in my lifetime and the Chargers actually have a good amount of fans in LA.
Just like the Clippers, Kings, Lakers, Dodgers, Galaxy, and LAFC, both the Rams and the Chargers will be fine and get plenty of fans. And with the ticket costs what they are, the Chargers are making ~70% in ticket sales at StubHub what they were making at Qualcomm.