What I really need is for the Rams and Chargers to move out of town.
Bunch of angry letter writers to the LA Times about SoFi being 60% 49er fans last week. I want to reply, “Well, that’s what you get when a team leaves town for 20-odd years. People find new teams to root for. Teams that won’t leave town, since they are not in town.” Plenty of people bought seat licenses and now put their tickets up for sale instead of spending a whole day to watch 15 minutes of football action. Other people do want to do that, but only want to go to one game. Their investment serves a distinct market. There are 20 million+ people in the area. Some are going to root for a team visiting L.A. Only takes about 0.2% of that population to fill up 60% of the stadium.
Was reading an interesting article in today’s Seattle Times about possible Seahawks’ strategies for keeping Geno who could become a UFA at the end of the season. An interesting statistic in the article was that Geno’s total NFL career earnings to date have been only about $11 million. He will get the proverbial pot of gold at the end of the rainbow if he maintains his current level of success for the rest of the season!
Yeah, SoCal would definitely not get the SEA game if shown at a regular time. Early Fox is MIN at BUF, first-place teams in their respective divisions and possible Super Bowl preview. Late Fox is Rams.
CBS still showing DEN games in SEA area, and it is showing JAX-KC early in So Cal instead of Raiders late, probably due to LAR being on Fox at the same time. Still trying to force So Cal residents to root for the local teams instead of natural urges, I guess.
CBS map is pretty weird. I get that the MIA game will be on in Alabama (and Hawaii, for Tua, the Hawaiian and Tide alum), but what’s the deal with IND-VEG game shown in Minnesota, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and New Orleans?
I don’t think the Hawks were ready for yhe quality of this field.
There seems to be a lot of divots, maybe it is just that a soccer pitch behaves differently under american football conditions, but the hawks have been falling down a lot.