L.A. Chargers to Vancouver

[butteredbiscuit]

https://www.10news.com/sports/sports-new...-rising-between-rams-and-chargers-owners

The L.A. Rams ownership is angry with the Chargers because they cant sell a lot of Seat Licensing seats to help out with Rams new stadium. The Chargers lease with the Rams new stadium is $1.00 because the owner of the Rams hates the Chargers owner. He would want them out of his

Just a side note, the Chargers are looking to move to London.

https://www.sportscasting.com/nfl-could-the-los-angeles-chargers-make-a-permanent-move-to-london/

Now if we were to remodel B.C. Place, Could you support the Chargers and could the CFL coexist with the NFL at the same time?

[bluefox]

Originally Posted by butteredbiscuit

https://www.10news.com/sports/sports-new...-rising-between-rams-and-chargers-owners

The L.A. Rams ownership is angry with the Chargers because they cant sell a lot of Seat Licensing seats to help out with Rams new stadium. The Chargers lease with the Rams new stadium is $1.00 because the owner of the Rams hates the Chargers owner. He would want them out of his

Just a side note, the Chargers are looking to move to London.

https://www.sportscasting.com/nfl-could-the-los-angeles-chargers-make-a-permanent-move-to-london/

Now if we were to remodel B.C. Place, Could you support the Chargers and could the CFL coexist with the NFL at the same time?

Toronto couldn't make the Bills Series last and they were supposed to be the next "big market" jump for the NFL outside the continental US. Why would anyone think Vancouver, the king of fair-weather sports cities, could make an NFL franchise work? The Chargers "could" move to London, but they "could" move to any number of places. They're more likely to move back to San Diego with their caps in hand than anything.

I appreciate the aspirational side of things but the reality is Vancouver is not a prime destination for many sports and it's for a good reason. If we were a sports town we'd have a MLB team by now, we'd have kept the Grizzlies in town, and so on and so forth. The reality is that Vancouver is not a football town: the Lions' attendance is not stable, rather proportional to how well the team is doing.

Besides that, the public appetite for a second major overhaul of BC Place in a decade is likely zero, especially given the ridiculous cost overruns the BC Liberals allowed Pavco to run up on the roof replacement.

[logan5]

It's not the BC Lions that are in decline, it's the whole CFL. Even in the stronger markets like Edmonton and Calgary, attendance is down. If the CFL doesn't survive the Covid crisis, the NFL would most certainly go into Toronto, the 4th largest market in NA sports. They would seriously have to look at Vancouver as well, to capture Western Canada.

[WarrenC12]

You guys are hilarious.

The NFL levied $645M against the Chargers to move to LA. Who is going to pay that to bring them to Vancouver?

The NFL will not accept BC Place as a place to play games. The Raiders are spending $1.9 BILLION on a new stadium in Vegas.

Zero chance.

[svlt]

Originally Posted by logan5

It's not the BC Lions that are in decline, it's the whole CFL. Even in the stronger markets like Edmonton and Calgary, attendance is down. If the CFL doesn't survive the Covid crisis, the NFL would most certainly go into Toronto, the 4th largest market in NA sports. They would seriously have to look at Vancouver as well, to capture Western Canada.

Methinks the CFL will be an entity that will certainly get bailed out by the government if it came down to that. As frankly poorly as it has done over the recent decades, it's made enough of a lasting impact on the country that I highly doubt a solvent Canada would just let fold and fade into history...

[libtard]

Originally Posted by logan5

It's not the BC Lions that are in decline, it's the whole CFL. Even in the stronger markets like Edmonton and Calgary, attendance is down. If the CFL doesn't survive the Covid crisis, the NFL would most certainly go into Toronto, the 4th largest market in NA sports. They would seriously have to look at Vancouver as well, to capture Western Canada.

No

The NFL’s current model works perfectly and they will not change it. The owners simply won’t allow a team in Canada. Buffalo and Seattle would be against it because it would cut into their revenue share and the other owners will simply vote in their favour. Regardless of how many people want it. Have you seen the new stadiums they’re building in LA and Vegas??? Multi billion dollar state of the art buildings. For a new team to relocate here, at the LEAST the NFL would expect a brand new stadium and Vancouver simply doesn’t have the economic muscle from big corporations to get that done.

[s211]

Originally Posted by libtard

No

The NFL’s current model works perfectly and they will not change it. The owners simply won’t allow a team in Canada. Buffalo and Seattle would be against it because it would cut into their revenue share and the other owners will simply vote in their favour. Regardless of how many people want it. Have you seen the new stadiums they’re building in LA and Vegas??? Multi billion dollar state of the art buildings. For a new team to relocate here, at the LEAST the NFL would expect a brand new stadium and Vancouver simply doesn’t have the economic muscle from big corporations to get that done.

And then one top of that add the volatile exchange rate, and likely perpetually lagging Canadian dollar. Hockey has a hard enough time paying players USD wages.

[benp]

Originally Posted by libtard

No

The NFL’s current model works perfectly and they will not change it. The owners simply won’t allow a team in Canada. Buffalo and Seattle would be against it because it would cut into their revenue share and the other owners will simply vote in their favour. Regardless of how many people want it. Have you seen the new stadiums they’re building in LA and Vegas??? Multi billion dollar state of the art buildings. For a new team to relocate here, at the LEAST the NFL would expect a brand new stadium and Vancouver simply doesn’t have the economic muscle from big corporations to get that done.

The Bills played a "home" game in Toronto for several years (with thoughts of maybe moving there one day), and NFL never caught on there like it does in US cities. The last game attracted only 38,000 people in Toronto (and even though the Bills weren't really good, at home they still attracted 70,000). I just don't think the cost to team owners, and the price of tickets to fans, is worth it to Canadians.

[Nites]

I'd rather see an NBA team here instead. With the rise of basketball in Canada within the last decade it would just do so much better this time around. I'm actually in for Seattle obtaining a ball team before us as well.

As for football youth interests here in BC has been dwindling down year by year. With there only being 8 home games a season I think most NFL fans here in the lower mainland are fine with making the trip down to Seattle for a game or two a year.