[actionjack]

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.

The new palace will 100% fix that, the issue is we have to waste two more long seasons at the Coliseum.

[max]

From Rich Hammond....

FILL THE SEATS

The playoff loss showed the potential of the Rams in Los Angeles. Approximately 70,000 people came to the Coliseum and provided an electric home-field atmosphere that hadn’t seen provided all season.

The Rams went 3-5 at the Coliseum this season and are 4-11 at home since the relocation from St. Louis. There are other factors, but clearly the Rams would feel more comfortable with a large, supportive crowd, rather than a group of 55,000 that is 25-percent filled (if not more) with fans of the visiting team.

There’s no perfect answer for this one. The Rams’ improvement in 2017 should motivate on-the-fence fans to buy tickets next season, but some people (understandably) just won’t spent big money to spend an afternoon at the century-old stadium.

The Rams need to figure out a way to make the Coliseum more hospitable. Raising the sound system to ear-splitting levels and parading celebrities on the video board isn’t the answer.

[Hacksaw]

COC will bring in the casual fans. Does that = HFA though? More fans = louder. Is that what HFA boils down to, louder?

[St. Loser Fan]

The question is will a shiny new stadium in Inglewood mean fans in the seats cheering for the team and home field advantage? Or will the seats be 1/2 to 2/3rd full?

The beauty of the Coliseum is that if you want to watch the game, you have to do it from your seats. There's no place to "hang out". What happens in Inglewood when there's hundreds of thousand of square feet of public areas on the concourse (all with huge HDTVs) with bars, restaurants and places to gather with friends?

Look at the issue at Atlanta's new stadium:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/dan-qui ... saints-nfl

or Detroit's new arena.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports ... 107393976/

[TomSlick]

The 49ers new stadium has many distractions for the casual fan not to be in his seat.
Also, the high PSL encourages some 49er fans to sell their game day tickets for extra dough to help pay their PSL costs. They sell to anyone, 49er fan or not.

I assume most of the RAM PSLs will be pricey...as to what type of fan purchases those tickets...rabid lunatic RAM fan or casual fan remains to be seen. Sure would love to see a boisterous gonzo crowd cheering on this exciting team.

[PARAM]

The question is will a shiny new stadium in Inglewood mean fans in the seats cheering for the team and home field advantage? Or will the seats be 1/2 to 2/3rd full?

The beauty of the Coliseum is that if you want to watch the game, you have to do it from your seats. There's no place to "hang out". What happens in Inglewood when there's hundreds of thousand of square feet of public areas on the concourse (all with huge HDTVs) with bars, restaurants and places to gather with friends?

Look at the issue at Atlanta's new stadium:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2017/12/dan-qui ... saints-nfl

or Detroit's new arena.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/sports ... 107393976/

That can be a conundrum. But also the Falcons had the same problem as the Rams....they were 3-2 at home before that Viking game...3-3 after.

At the time the Lions article was published, they were 3-4 overall, 1-3 at home.

And the other question I have is will SRO space be sold? If the place sells out with all that concourse area to watch from, I'm sure they could sell SRO tickets. Baseball does it. I'd pack as many people into that place as fire laws will allow.

And even if it's just fans going to buy food/beer and consuming in the concourse area, that produces empty seats, if they're standing around the concourse they can still get loud. At Yankee Stadium there's all kinds of tables to sit at and railing to lean on around the outfield. Don't see why it can't work the same in football stadiums.

As far as the headline of the article goes, I agree it's all in the translation. A fan is going to read a headline how they want to read it. Not quite a Rorschach test but give different people the same few words and you could get a number of translations. Optimism sees it one way, pessimism sees it a completely different way. I think that's what happened here. When I read that headline I immediately thought about all the slipping on the turf. HomeFIELD.

[azramsfan93]

Plus Stan doesn’t strike me as the statue of himself type of guy.

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.

Now there is a reason to put the statue up!

[Hacksaw]

ESK doesn't remind me of a pretentious guy. I'd love to see a statue of him right outside the Chargers offices though. 'Good morning Dean'.

[DirtyFacedKid]

And the other question I have is will SRO space be sold? If the place sells out with all that concourse area to watch from, I'm sure they could sell SRO tickets. Baseball does it. I'd pack as many people into that place as fire laws will allow.

And even if it's just fans going to buy food/beer and consuming in the concourse area, that produces empty seats, if they're standing around the concourse they can still get loud. At Yankee Stadium there's all kinds of tables to sit at and railing to lean on around the outfield. Don't see why it can't work the same in football stadiums.

I would totally pick up an SRO ticket if I knew I could somehow contribute to the crowd/noise while being a close-by onlooker hanging out at a concourse bar with a big screen TV.

[St. Loser Fan]

I would totally pick up an SRO ticket if I knew I could somehow contribute to the crowd/noise while being a close-by onlooker hanging out at a concourse bar with a big screen TV.

Dallas has SRO tickets for like $35 where you can only see the Jerrytron but can't see the field. Or when they held the Super Bowl there Jerry fudged the numbers by selling tickets for the public areas outside the stadium.