Los Angeles Rams have made LA a one team NFL town

While the Los Angeles Rams continue to flourish in LA, the same can’t be said for the Chargers.

The NFL and the NFL media need to stop pretending the City of Angels has two professional franchises. While the Los Angeles Rams are the last remaining undefeated team heading into Week 7, and possibly the best in the league, the other team in town can’t muster so much as a small rooting section across town.

In all fairness to the Los Angeles Chargers, they play at the StubHub Center which holds 27,000 people. And while they also average the lowest attendance in the league because of the small stadium, LA hasn’t been a welcoming audience on Sunday afternoon.

The Chargers have become the professional sports version of a carpetbagger, as they’ve taken up residence in a city they have no local connection to. As for those who would say they played there once, I’d remind them that was in 1960 when gas was .31 cents a gallon and Dwight D. Eisenhower was in the White House.

Meanwhile the Rams arrived in LA in 1946 and stayed until leaving for St. Louis in 1994.

Bottom line is that the Rams have roots and a viable fan-base in Los Angeles while the Chargers do not. As a matter of fact, finding more fans of the opposing team at a home game inside the cozy confines of StubHub has become way to easy.

Likely to easy for Bolts management.

As such during league meetings this week, the long term viability of the Chargers in Los Angeles was a hot topic, as PSL sales for the new Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in Inglewood have been everything less than enthusiastic. So much so, that the Chargers will lower revenue projections from $400 million to $150 million.

The Los Angeles Rams simply don’t have such issues.

The idea that the Chargers will be a co-tenant or partner in 2020 almost seems laughable, and it’s not because they are necessarily a bad team at 4-2. They are in the playoff hunt entering Week 7. But as big as the city of Los Angeles is, the Bolts just haven’t found any traction in developing a fan-base of any significance, and that’s an issue the NFL won’t be able to ignore.

More simply put, LA will support a lot of teams from USC TO UCLA, the Lakers to the Rams .

The Chargers just don’t fit anywhere in that discussion. Not in 2018 and not likely in 2020 when they move to Inglewood.