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Re: Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that the NFL can't ''guarantee a team'' will be in Los Angeles. |
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Posted by PHXTUSbusfan on Mon Feb 8 00:56:56 2010, in response to Re: Commissioner Roger Goodell said Friday that the NFL can't ''guarantee a team'' will be in Los Angeles., posted by Easy on Mon Feb 8 00:23:13 2010. Phoenix likely isn't the best example. There are a lot of California "expatriates" in Arizona. That being said, when I was at the bars and watching the games, there was a fairly even division of Packer fans versus Raider fans. The Raiders, I hate to say it, have developed somewhat of a bandwagon fan base.One other thing that I've noticed is that the Bay Area is an NFL town (all everyone talks about Monday morning is the Niners and Raiders during football season). Cal and Stanford have much more "niche" fan bases (generally students and alumni). Los Angeles, to me, seems just the opposite. LA is very much a big college football town and USC and UCLA rule the roost. The general populace (as well as students and alumni) are all divided between USC or UCLA for their football attention. I doubt that even with an NFL team that this would change all that much. LA is for better or worse the country's largest college football dominant football market (it was when the Raiders and Rams were both there and will be in the future). Most other NFL markets are NFL first, college second. |
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