Sports & Politics Intersect: Mayor Garcetti rolls back the NFL red carpet
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Front Five: The top stories that shaped both sports & politics this week “We embrace any team that comes, we’re certainly happy to have the Chargers in L.A., but I think we could have been happy with just one, too.” – Los Angeles Mayor Eric GarcettSports & Politics Intersect: Mayor Garcetti rolls back the NFL red carpet
Front Five: The top stories that shaped both sports & politics this week “We embrace any team that comes, we’re certainly happy to have the Chargers in L.A., but I think we could have been happy with just one, too.” – Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti on whether he wanted two teams in L.A. Week 2 of the NFL season saw two professional football teams play home games in Los Angeles on the same day since 1995, and the attendance numbers were brutal. The Rams and Chargers combined for just 82,000 fans this past weekend, when USC hosted Texas that same weekend, attendance was nearly 85,000. Fans being apathetic is an understatement, especially considering the Chargers failed to sell out the StubHub Center, which has 27,000 seats – a number comparable to big college basketball arenas. It’s not just football fans who are seemingly unhappy with two NFL teams in the city, Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti told Dan Patrick that he felt Los Angeles would have been better off with just one team. Read more