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CeetheAndSope kill/carp  1yr ago (x.com) 588 thread views #222514

Sports are dead. Sports remain dead. And weebs have killed them. :marcusfootballgenocide:

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:#marseysoypointsnappyquote:

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found :marseymissing2: the incel :marseyjannyitsoverwereback:

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Please, do NOT conflate white degenerate weeaboos and black shonen fans.

The latter usually are lighthearted and funny enthusiasts

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Lel, the NFL is trying so hard to create more Rams fans...

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Someone needs to explain to me how US sports franchises work. They move the Rams from St Louis to LA and suddenly hundreds of thousands of people in LA decide that they would die for this completely artificial concept of a sports team?

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Not exactly. First off, NFL teams moving is actually pretty rare these days. Only three have done so this century. The Rams moved from St. Louis to Los Angeles in 2016, the Chargers moved from San Diego to Los Angeles in 2017, and the Raiders moved from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020. All three moves involved a team moving into, within, or out of California. :marseyflagcalifornia:

And this isn't unique to football. In baseball, the Senators moved from Washington to Arlington and became the Rangers in 1972. The next move was the Expos going from Montréal to Washington and becoming the Nationals in 2005, over 30 years later. And now the Athletics are moving from Oakland to Las Vegas. Turns out nobody wants to be in Oakland. :sanfranciscorentfree:

In hockey, the Thrashers moving from Atlanta to Winnipeg and becoming the Jets in 2011 is the only move this century. I am still salty about this, and if I'm ever in the same room as Gary Bettman, I'm going to kill him. That is all I'll say about that. :marseybackstab:

Even in the basketball, where moves used to be relatively frequent, there hasn't been one since the Nets moved from New Jersey to Brooklyn in 2012, which was barely a move. The last real move was the Supersonics moving from Seattle to Oklahoma City and becoming the Thunder in 2008. :marseydunkon:

As for the Rams specifically, they were in Los Angeles from 1946 through 1994, and the move to St. Louis was... controversial, to put it mildly. If you want details on that, you'll have to ask someone from Southern California. The short version is, the team was garbage, the stadium was garbage, the ownership was garbage, and the league didn't want to deal with a lawsuit if they didn't allow the move. The move back to LA was for similar reasons, but with Walmart money thrown in for good measure. :marseycapitalistmanlet:

And Angelenos didn't immediately embrace the Rams, despite having been an LA team just 20 years prior. Their attendance, viewership, and jersey/merch sales were all pretty low for a team in a city as big as Los Angeles. It wasn't until the double whammy of the Raiders moving out of California in 2020 and the Rams winning the Super Bowl in 2021 that the city really embraced the team. :marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove:

Hope that helps. :marseymoreyouknow:
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Why would LA get two teams in two years?

It wasn't until the double whammy of the Raiders moving out of California in 2020 and the Rams winning the Super Bowl in 2021 that the city really embraced the team. :marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove::marcusfootballlove:

"I guess I'll just support this team now that they've won the Superbowl" :marseysick:

Thanks for the history lesson, I've learned some things.

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Why would the NFL want teams in America's entertainment capital and second largest media market? Much mystery.

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Ok but wouldn't they want to bed in the first team and collect metrics before moving a second one? The idea of a 51 state country with 2 teams out of 32 in one city is weird to me.

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But those clubs are literally founded as community sports teams that simply grew over the decades.

Their founding and growth was natural.

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The PL has a promotion/relegation system. You could set up a team today and eventually make it to the PL if you're good enough.

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Why would LA get two teams in two years?

Same reason anything happens. Money. Los Angeles is the second biggest media market in the country, and for decades, they didn't have a team. That's a lot of money being left on the table. :marseymoney:

Going back to the Raiders for a second, they were in Oakland from their founding in 1960 through 1981, moved to Los Angeles in 1982, and moved back to Oakland in 1995. So the Rams and the Raiders both left Los Angeles at the same time. :marcusfootballgenocide:

For the next 20 years, Los Angeles existed solely as a bargaining chip for smaller market teams. "If you don't build us a publicly funded, state-of-the-art stadium and give us tons of tax breaks, we'll just move to LA." In 2015, two teams finally pulled the trigger. Technically three, since the Raiders were originally going to move back to Los Angeles, rather than move to Las Vegas. :marseygiganoyou:

A lot of wheeling and dealing happened in regards to the details, but both teams had been in Los Angeles before and one was still in Southern California, so the moves themselves weren't a hard sell. And because it's two teams, they were able to do what the Giants/Jets and Lakers/Clippers have been doing for decades. Share a stadium. :marseycomradehandshake:

The owners made tons of money by moving to and being in Los Angeles, Inglewood makes tons of money by having SoFi Stadium there, and the NFL makes tons of money by finally having teams back in such an enormous media market. The only losers are the fans in St. Louis and San Diego, but who cares about those nerds? :marseygiggle:

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This is one of the worst posts I have EVER seen. Delete it.

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Latest manga episodes includes NTR

Americans are now interested in the franchise :marseynoooticer:

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