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Quote: Originally Posted by allBthere

living in Canada helps too I understand the logic...but it's really all about winning - they are rewarding winning more than marketing/advertising/seat sales. If I lived somewhere, where I hated the owner of my team, hated most of the players for underperforming, and it was as close to a guaranteed loss as you can get - guess what? economy or not, I'm not going...unless maybe I have a 2nd or 3rd fav team that I enjoy watching that was in town. you can market crap all you want, but it will only work if the product on the field is worth your attention. having said all that...there are those anomolies like SD - are the tickets too expensive there?

It's Southern California. There's just too much other stuff to do there. This is why LA is such a terrible football town. Trying to get 60,000 people to a venue in LA without any celebrities performing is damn near impossible.