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Originally Posted by LA21st
We're talking about two different things here.
The value was brought up as evidence why the Chargers will stay put, since people here are arguing they should be forced to relocate. Which makes no sense, as Los Anglees Sports Fan said, they would lose a billion or more in value.
They're not failing in LA financially.
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Who is arguing that they should be forced to relocate? I've only seen people saying it's ridiculous they moved in the first place, no one wants them in Los Angeles or cares that they're here (see: poor tv ratings and very few Charger fans showing up to games), and, if they had to move out of SD, they probably would have been better received if they moved to a city that didn't have another team.
If the valuation of teams was all that mattered, why not stick 5 teams in NYC, 4 in LA, a couple in Chicago and Texas and tell the rest of the country to fuck off. Some of the most iconic and popular teams in the league are from small markets- the most obvious example being Green Bay. But Pittsburgh, Kansas City, New Orleans are all also small markets. Given the logic you're using to defend the move out of SD, should LA absorb the Steelers, too? They could surely get more people tuning into games in the ~20 million person media market of Southern California than they could in ~3 million person Pittsburgh. See how ridiculous that sounds? The valuation of the teams literally means nothing to 99% of sports fans. People want history and rivalries and, yes, geographic distribution of teams. Having everything clustered in a couple markets might make (temporary) financial sense, but that's not what people care about.