The Chargers present an interesting problem, however: There's NO WAY you can have a playoff home game in a 30,000 seat soccer stadium in which most of the fans are those of the visiting team.
But one thing is clear: The league appears to be ready to make an effectively-fanless team possible Super Bowl champions for the express purpose of CREATING a fanbase in LA.
EDIT TO ADD BEFORE BED: Some interesting stats on today's lines at the William Hill from Ben Fawkes at ESPN, through Brian Tuohy:
- 87% of the money bet as of this morning on Pats-Steelers was on New England. LOST OUTRIGHT
- 82% of the money bet on Bills-Lions was on the Bills. DIDN'T COVER.
- 77% of the money bet on Raiders-Cincinnati was on the Raiders??? HA!! NOT CLOSE.
- Hey, at least Minnesota covered for the 75% of the money bet on that game.
- 71% on the Sunday nighter -- on the Rams. LOST OUTRIGHT.
With You on Philip Rivers and the Chargers narrative.AFC will be upside down in the playoffs.1 through 3 will lose.Chargers are better on the road also. Boy the NFC is interesting.Can't overlook the Eagles Hollywood script.The NBC announcers alluded to this last night.
ReplyDeleteThe scariest thing about it is to remember that the Chargers pretty much CANNOT have a home game in this year's playoffs with the state of their fanbase -- a state of the fanbase so counter to the LA Experiment that the league might just do the unthinkable: Super Bowl Championship FIRST, then bandwagoner fanbase!
DeleteAnd as for Philly... Dallas still has the ratings, but I wonder, if the NFC gets down that far, we might not see them toss the entire narrative of the first twelve weeks of the year and give us JJ Watt vs. Khalil Mack: Texans vs. Bears!!