Two NFL Teams Could Move To Los Angeles Says Jerry Jones

Last Saturday, Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said the NFL is closer than ever to returning to Los Angeles.

On Wednesday at Cowboys training camp during an interview with NFL Network, Jones said, "I feel more imminent about a team being in here, that it's more imminent than any time since we haven't had a team in Los Angeles," Jones said. "And yes, this market is a huge market, it's a little bit of a black eye for all of us to have had this many years and not had an NFL team in Los Angeles.

"The owners don't mess much up ... but we haven't gotten this one right. There's people, there's locations, there are people that are interested, a lot of people that can help us put this thing together. And as it turns out that we have at least two teams ... that could move to this area."

"There won't be any expansion," he said. "So it will be teams that move."

Source: The Redzone

 

you keep talking about stealing other cities' teams Jerry and you will start making a lot of enemies all over this country.

 

Jesus Christ Jerry shut the heck up. I'm already sick of him talking and the season hasn't started yet.

LA couldn't even support 1 team. How's it going to support 2.

 

they had teams there before. they had their chance and they said no thanks.

 

LA is a basketball town and baseball town Jerry, NOT a football town.

 

Took the wording as 2 teams in the mix to move as opposed to moving 2 teams.

Either way, it's like Ground Hog Day. NFL just can't say no to the lure of the big market money even tho they can't get a hold of it with football.

 

I wonder if ownership would make a difference? As cool as the Raiders are to average fans around the country they weren't glitzy Hollywood types and although Al Davis starred in a few movies (Weekend at Bernies and all the Zombie movies), he never seemed to cater to the glamour stars. For a little while the Rams did but maybe with the right owner, someone like Jerry Jones who's more interested in form (showtime) than substance maybe LaLa could handle a team....maybe.

 

jerry needs to lay off all that hard crap he's been smoking and drinking.

 

Big maybe but if there was hope, I think you found the marketing approach. Definitely needs an outside the usual NFL box if there's any chance.

 

Jeffrey Lurie.

 

The Raiders would always draw more than a team that caters to "glamour stars". Theres a lot more grime in LA than glamour overall, and that majority still supports an enormous, thriving Raiders fanbase. You want showtime, Hollywood stars on the field and 15 minutes of fame, fine, let Jerry bring in a team...but if you want to get stupidly rich, it's the Raiders.

 

That couldn't be more wrong. The Raiders couldn't hold the Rams jock when it came to attendance. The Raiders struggled to get 40,000 to 50,000 a game...well below the NFL average. I believe i read somewhere that 1994 was the only season the Raiders had a higher attendance than the Rams?

The Rams led the NFL in attendance several times throughout their history. Not something the LA Raiders can say.

Point is that the team can be glamorous to draw crowds...it doesn't have to be the Raiders. Look at the attendances at UCLA and USC. USC is totally "Hollywood."

 

well, whichever owner moves his team to l.a. will soon find himself losing money every year so if this is something that the league is wanting done just to say they have a team in l.a., then they may need to convince the other 31 owners to chip in money to prop up the l.a. team.

 

Thing is there would be 3-4 teams fighting for the same dollars at that point...there's only so much that can go around...lol.

 

so, what you are saying is the Cowboys will be moving to LA? Sweet...

 

now that i think about it, i'm fairly certain that even the teams with lower revenue streams (st. louis, jacksonville, oakland, buffalo) probably don't need to be propped up secretly by the other owners. the sport is so popular, even the crappily-run teams are making craploads of money so maybe someone could make it work in L.A. now.

 

What the heck are you talking about? The Rams record attendance days were in the 50's. When The Raiders were in LA the Rams weren't even in the same building (both figuratively and literally) when it came to attendance. They were good for a couple years in Anaheim but once the Raiders came to town their attendance plummeted.

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Wrong Again. The Rams attendance didn't plummet (under 50,000) or dip until 1992, 93, 94. Ironically, so did the Raiders - actually not in 1994...the Raiders averaged 51,195 to the Rams 43,312. The Rams attendance was pretty solid/consistent from 1982 to 1991. Of course it took a decline from the numbers in the 70's and early 80's because there was another team in the market and now there are 4 teams battling for dollars. It's a natural progression and no matter who it is, if another team arrives in the market, attendance will dip.

During the time span (1982-1994) both teams where "in" Los Angeles, the Rams had a higher average attendance 8 out of 13 times...so I was wrong in what I thought I read, the Raiders had a higher attendance 5 times.

Yeah...those attendance records were "because of the Raiders"...even you know that's not true. The Raiders big "attendance games" came from one of the following: Broncos, Seahawks, Chargers, Niners, Steelers or Rams. I think there was a Bears one in there too. But for the most part, if the Raiders had a decent stadium, it was when 50% of the fans arrived from one of those above mentioned teams...which is understandable...but don't act like it was all the Raiders...lol. 50's or not, the Rams posted record numbers...in a less popular time. That says something for the team and the city.

Anyway, to say that the Raiders would always draw more than a team that caters to "glamour stars" is false based on the time that the Rams and the Raiders were in Los Angeles.

 

well, the raiders are kind of an oddity. the raiders had trouble consistently drawing fans in l.a. and they continue to struggle in oakland. regardless of where they land, that entire organization needs a complete image/marketing overhaul to be able to attract more mainstream fans in whatever city they are in.

correctly or not, the raiders are viewed by many in mainstream america as the nfl team for the felons, drug dealers, bikers, thugs, etc. A middle-aged accountant, for example, is not going to buy season tickets for he and his wife and kids if he has that perception so they end up losing a lot of potential customers. THAT is the raiders problem right now. They probably just need to move that team to a lily white town like Oklahoma City that will give them with a new persona instantly and they won't have to worry about re-inventing themselves.