The NFL’s Los Angeles Derby Is A Shameless, Repulsive Shitshow

[El Supremo]

The Raiders are playing the Chargers tonight in what may be… say it with me… the final home game for the Oakland Raiders as you know them. This is the last in a trilogy of “potential final home games” for the three teams all vying to move to Los Angeles after this season. The Rams and the Chargers both had their tentative farewell parties last week. The Chargers’ goodbye was particularly heartbreaking because, of the three teams involved in this disaster, they’ve been in one place the longest, and because the Chargers are just as snake-bitten and allergic to ultimate success as the Buffalos and Clevelands of the world.

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Every week, the NFL goes out of its way to remind you how much it CARES about you, the people of America. They’re working hard on preventing concussions! They’re suspending wife beaters into oblivion! They’re reuniting military families (Awwwwww)! They’re trying to get your kids to not be fat by doing Play60 drills!

They’re doing all that, and yet this Los Angeles effort is proof of how hollow and disingenuous it all is. This fiasco, right here? THIS, more than anything, is the real heart of the NFL. This is what really matters to the 32 gray-haired buttplugs who give Roger Goodell his marching orders. They’re fucking over three fanbases and not even bothering to hide it, forcing one of them to play their potentially ultimate home game on Christmas fucking Eve, of all days. Charles Woodson’s final home game, no less.

At least drunk-ass Robert Irsay had some semblance of shame when he moved the Colts. At least he felt compelled to run away under cover of darkness. Everything here is being done in broad daylight, bathed in brand-speak (second largest TV market!), surrounded by worker bees to help scatter the fanboy anger, and handled with all the emotional delicacy of an automated train reservation system....

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[Auggie]

1. Excellent rant ... K&R

[KamaAina]

2. L.A. was supposed to have had an expansion team years ago

but there were two rival groups competing for it, and they couldn't get together, so the team went to Houston, which had been similarly screwed over by gray-haired buttplug Bud Adams.

[madinmaryland]

3. Aww, fuck it...

Let the St. Louis Rams move back to Cleveland and become the Cleveland Rams, and send Manziel and the Cleveland Browns to LA repeating what happened in the 1960's. Then you move the Cheatriots to Tuscaloosa, Alabama and the Raiders to Boston and the Chargers to Hartford.

Seriously. I've only had one glass of eggnog!!

[El Supremo]

4. Move the Chiefs back to Dallas!

And the Cowpies can go to hell. At least Dallas would have a good team again.

[madinmaryland]

5. You make a good point...

Two teams in Dallas and move the Houston Texans who stole the Chief's name from Dallas to Oklahoma City. Hey, if an NBA team can do it, so can an NFL team!!!

Hey! At least the two Dallas teams would actually play in Texas, unlike the two "New York" teams!!

[Elwood P Dowd]

6. Tuscaloosa already has a pro team, and Saban can now exceed the player salary cap.