Skateboarding, Baseball, Red Hot Chili Peppers: these are just a few things Los Angeles has become known for. But just one year after the city of St. Louis was left without an NFL team, San Diego has also fallen into a near identical situation. On January 12th, 2017, the Chargers’ ownership group announced the relocation of the team to Los Angeles. This has given " The City of Angels" their second NFL franchise in as many years. This move has also come as a shock to many NFL fans, myself included. I almost immediately thought, why is a city that has struggled to care about the Rams moving to Los Angeles, getting another team?
If you weren’t aware, this isn’t the first time the Chargers will be playing in Los Angeles. Back in 1961, the Chargers spent their first season in LA. The next season saw them move to their now former home, San Diego. However, this wasn’t the first time that Los Angeles had a major football team. The Rams, who moved from Cleveland to LA in 1946, had already been in the city for 15 seasons. Following San Diego's departure, LA would later get another NFL franchise in 1981, with the then-Oakland Raiders making the move to Los Angeles.
These partnerships didn’t last forever. I.n 1995, both
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“The NFL returned to America’s second-biggest television market after a two-decade absence in 2016, but that didn’t result in more people watching the NFL. In fact, the NFL on FOX, the network that shows most of the Rams’ games, saw a decrease in its TV ratings in the Los Angeles market for 2016. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the 12 games shown by the Los Angeles FOX affiliate in 2016 reached, on average, 8 percent of L.A. households. In 2015, the Los Angeles FOX affiliate reached, on average, 8.3 percent of L.A. households. (The one Sunday Rams game shown on CBS this season also declined from CBS’s 2015 L.A.