(10-16-2017, 02:05 PM)MoJagFan Wrote:

(10-16-2017, 01:53 PM)DragonFury Wrote: Our general attendance is round about 61k to 62k. A good chunk of that is usually fans from the visiting team. The Rams are a recently relocated franchise who have yet to even build a fanbase in their home town, let alone on the road. Take away the visiting fans from the normal attendance figure and you land almost exactly on the 56k figure that was announced yesterday.

The RAMS were in LA for a long time so they supposedly have a fan base and Stan the Scam was counting on that when he yanked them out of STL, well and the ton of money rolling in for his property/stadium.  I don't disagree with the point that getting fans from the other team is part of the attendance just pointing out that this isn't an expansion franchise.

The Rams hadn't played in LA in 22 years since they left and even when they were in LA their fanbase wasn't that great. Sure they picked up some of their old fans when they moved back but it's not like they walked into an established fanbase from day 1. Look at their numbers from this year: 60, 56k, 61k. Those are Jacksonville level numbers, and definitely not the numbers of a fanbase that's going to cross a continent to attend an NFL game in Jacksonville.

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