[Hacksaw]

Kroenke said:
"We don’t have a good facility. It’s the Coliseum. This place is cavernous. It’ll swallow up 65,000, 70,000 people.’’

So, Kroenke was talking about the Coliseum but the headline implies he was talking about the fans. Shocker.

Kroenke said:
" And the city’s a wonderful place. They truly have embraced the team.’’

Kroenke said:
“In two years we’ll be in a new stadium, and I think we can have a true home-field advantage like a lot of the teams do,’’ ... “We don’t really have it now.’’

Kroenke quickly added:
“I shouldn’t say that because the fans were great’’

What's not to get?

[Hacksaw]

That headline implies no such thing.

Welcome to RFU Plumb.

[Elvis]

Mokler is saying it's a dishonest headline which knocks L.A. fans and he's defending Kroenke/L.A. here.

But the truth is it's neutral headline which can certainly be read more than one way...

[SoCalRam78]

Went to rams games against Philly and Atlanta. Both highly populated games fans wise. Two highest this year in fact.

1. Place was loud Saturday. Coliseum is a bowl though, not a dome or vertical stadium. So noise on TV will appear less.

2. The field condition for no rain or snow and for so cal weather was laughable. Like high school level garbage. Ryan almost tore an acl slipping and gurley was on ice skates.

3. The venue is garbage. Limited bathrooms. Ridiculously long lines getting in and out because not enough entrances and seating exits. Food is awful. Parking limited, a massive thing in LA. I parked in a tire store jammed in like a sardine.

Bottom line is, the new Venue can’t get here soon enough.

[Elvis]

Spot on.

How 'bout a decent field for Sean McVay's precision detail oriented offense?

[rams74]

And I know you guys loathe the Spanos family, but I’d guess they wouldn’t like a monument to Stan in front of the place they play.

Why not? The now-defunct Chargers/Raiders plan for that Carson project was going to feature all kinds of stuff in honor of Al Davis. The Chargers had no problem with all of that. Why would they not like a monument to their new dollar-a-year landlord?

(I'm kidding (I think))

[Hacksaw]

Mokler is saying it's a dishonest headline which knocks L.A. fans and he's defending Kroenke/L.A. here.

But the truth is it's neutral headline which can certainly be read more than one way...

Which is the point right? How you look at it. I think it comes down to the level of sound that escapes from that place. Birds flying over that loudspeaker to the sky surely get a fright.

Home town fans are often sharing the place with the transplants. Not sure why that would change in the new venue unless local Rams fans actually use all their tickets.
By the Inglewood opening, the team will likely have caught on helping that cause. Still having a roof on a gorgeous building isn't going to make the transplants any quieter or participate less..

[St. Loser Fan]

Why not? The now-defunct Chargers/Raiders plan for that Carson project was going to feature all kinds of stuff in honor of Al Davis. The Chargers had no problem with all of that.

IIRC the Carson landfill stadium had the giant flame for Raiders games and lightning for Chargers games.

[Elvis]

A holographic statue ought to solve this conundrum...

[ramsman34]

Stan is right and it falls on him. This is his team and his product. Last season, as soon as the losing set in, fans stayed away - that is LA non-die hard fans for ya. The Coliseum is not a good venue for all the reasons previously stated. It is not an elegant place for the non-hardcore fan to want to go let alone tolerate. USC has a storied tradition there. The college game and fan are different and they have accepted and embraced the coliseum as "theirs" We Rams fans are in limbo. We are waiting for that state of that art facility and game day experience that not only will satisfy the diehards, but be a "go to" event for the casual fans.

The Rams losing for so long - especially the hot garbage they were last season - and now finally winning has to be accounted for in this market. This is the toughest sports market in the US, IMO. Stan simply MUST field a consistent winner and contender to get and keep the casual fan. The Coliseum will probably get better between now and 2020 as long as the Rams are winners/contenders. We will probably see a better ratio of Rams fans to opposition fans as well.

But as it sits, playoff game notwithstanding, the Rams don't have that signature home field advantage. Consistent winning and the new palace should rectify that.