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Surprise, surprise. Rams have to cancel 'Rams Legends' game due to poor ticket sales.

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So this is a bit awkward.

I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if you were planning on seeing the best Rams players of past and present suiting up against a team of NFL All-Stars at the Rams Legends game on Aug. 14, well, keep an eye out for that refund. Because it gone.

The Legends Game, which was ostensibly scheduled to pump up fans and symbolize a return to form for the returning franchise, has been called off due to poor ticket sales, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Jim Thomas.

The game was originally slated to kick off at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, and included Rams greats Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt and others.

This, of course, stands in contrast from the Rams' St. Louis leg of the Legends series. That game, hosted back in the Edward Jones Dome, drew out more than 10,000 fans in July.

Now, Rams fans will have to content themselves with Saturday's training camp scrimmage at the Los Angeles Coliseum — an event that could draw as many as 80,000 fans. Maybe.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/rams-cancel-rams-legends-game-due-to-poor-ticket-sales-080216

Their owner will be begging to get out of that football poo hole in LA in about 10-15 years.  

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2 hours ago, cookinwithgas said:

I really don't get it. San Diego has a team with the same coastline and weather. San Fran does well. What is it with LA? Do they think they are too hip for football?

They're given hand-me-downs of shitty teams. I think that's the main reason. They've never been allowed to birth a team that they could really call theirs. No team that has played there has been first and foremost a "Los Angeles" team, born and raised there.

If the Jaguars tomorrow announced they were moving to a stadium next to my house to be the Rodeo's House Jaguars, I'd shrug and keep rooting for the Panthers. Because I couldn't care less about the Jaguars no matter where they play.

But if a team was awarded to here, was formed here, created here, named here, I would be far more likely to support them.

Nobody gives a crap about the Rams no matter where they play. If they want LA to support a team, they have to create an LA team, not transplant one of the worst teams nobody cares about and expect them to suddenly become a big success.

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Poor ticket sales has nothing to do with the "team" as it is with the lack of marketing.

How many people in Los Angeles knew about this Legends game? I've heard of the game once and i get daily/weekly emails from the Rams for being a Season Ticket holder. Poor planning and execution from their marketing team. 

 

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3 hours ago, thebigcat said:

So you're telling me that L.A fans are flaky... Who would have thought

LA needs to pay a few stars to show up at games in Rams gear, then everyone would flock to the games. It worked for the Lakers.

 

edit: Plus their best player is coaching our receivers!

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4 hours ago, nctarheel0619 said:

The Legends Game, which was ostensibly scheduled to pump up fans and symbolize a return to form for the returning franchise, has been called off due to poor ticket sales, per the St. Louis Post-Dispatch's Jim Thomas.

The game was originally slated to kick off at the StubHub Center in Carson, California, and included Rams greats Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, Torry Holt and others.

1) Should have been free like our Fan Fest. Make an investment in drumming up interest

2) Kurt Warner, Marshall Faulk, or Torry Holt never played for the LA team, so...

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2 hours ago, rodeo said:

They're given hand-me-downs of shitty teams. I think that's the main reason. They've never been allowed to birth a team that they could really call theirs. No team that has played there has been first and foremost a "Los Angeles" team, born and raised there.

If the Jaguars tomorrow announced they were moving to a stadium next to my house to be the Rodeo's House Jaguars, I'd shrug and keep rooting for the Panthers. Because I couldn't care less about the Jaguars no matter where they play.

But if a team was awarded to here, was formed here, created here, named here, I would be far more likely to support them.

Nobody gives a crap about the Rams no matter where they play. If they want LA to support a team, they have to create an LA team, not transplant one of the worst teams nobody cares about and expect them to suddenly become a big success.

It also doesn't help that LA is a very transient city, nobody in LA is actually from LA and they come to town with a rooting interest in another team. 

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This doesn't surprise me, the team has been gone for 22 years and guys like Faulk, Holt and Warner never played a down for an LA team so why would the fans want to pay to see a flag football game with a bunch of "legends" that were on the team when they played in another city? 

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