This was written 6 months ago and is still valid!
The Rams should come back to Los Angeles. The fans are waiting. And not just for sentimental reasons. The team last played IN LA in 1979. Anaheim, where the team moved to 1980-1994, IS NOT Los Angeles. While it is only 30 miles away, so is Parsippany, NY from New York City. Orange County, where the Rams went in 1980, is 70% the size of LA county. As far as I am concerned, the Rams were mostly dead to me when they left LA . That was 36 years ago. I followed the team closely from the time I was 8 years old. I went to plenty of games in the Coliseum and never attended a game in Anaheim. Roman Gabriel, Willie Ellison, Bob Klein, Jack Snow, Alvin Haymond, Kermit Alexander, Coy Bacon, Deacon Jones, and Les Josephson were my favorite players and I preferred the blue and white Rams too.
The fan base clamoring for the Rams to return is all over the age of 45. That’s fine. The average age of an NFL fan is 43. It works. When the Rams played in LA , they had more fans going to their games than the average NFL city 29 of 33 years. And, the fans loved the Rams so much, they chased the LA Chargers to San Diego. The Rams held the all-time single season attendance record for 49 years from 1957 until 2006. LA loved the Rams.
Anaheim?
9 of the 15 years the team wasted its time at the Big A, a baseball field for the Angels, they didn’t even have average NFL attendance. Of course, the Raiders had moved into the Rams old home from 1982-1994. So, the Greater LA area, with Anaheim only 30 miles away, was averaging 100,000 fans combined who went to games. LA is a gold mine. Don’t be fooled by anybody who says otherwise. There are 10 million plus people in LA county, the largest in the USA.
