Thats how we do college sports. Always been weird to me that pro sports dont

I went to a split v Zagreb football match back in like 2017 (Croatia rivalry clubs) and that was the wildest shit I’ve ever watched, flares, massive fucking flags just each end of the pitch screaming constantly. There was a brawl after the match in one of the nearby bars too. Insane experience wpild be fun to see some of that atmosphere without the maliciousness in some NBA games

A lot of us grew up without a team so obviously we arent all rams fans. A good mix of Niners, Packers, and Broncos fans in LA.

LA is 80% SF/Raiders fans

Part of the reason the panthers crowd was so good vs the rams is we have zero rams fans in charlotte

LA just doesn’t really care about football all that much. And those that do either follow USC or, if they hate themselves, UCLA

I live in LA and know a lot of Rams fans. But I met them all after the move and can’t possibly tell you who they rooted for before

Rams live so rent free in the VHS Super Bowl 49ers that ur hating in the NBA subreddit while pretending to be neutral.

As a native Angeleno, this isn’t true at all. There are tons of older folks who are Rams fans since before they left, and there are tons of younger people walking around the city daily in rams gear. It’s the Chargers that don’t really have a big local fan base.

Hello - it is me, a Rams fan.

It’ll take a generation (or two) to undo the damage Georgia Frontierre did to Rams fandom in SoCal, including fracturing NFL rooting interests amongst Millennials who were elementary aged when they left.

Fuck that harlot bitch.

Back In My Day the Rams were Orange County’s team – L.A. County was all Raiders fans. Then both teams left. Most people I knew from O.C. switched to the Chargers. I think the L.A. people stayed with the Raiders or went with random teams that were doing well.

There’s way more Rams fans you see now than when they first moved or even that game 4 years ago. I see more Rams gear than Niners gear in the wild but Niners have more fans that show up to games. You see more Raiders than anything for NFL though

Yea there’s a lot of talk about Knicks fans priced out of MSG hopping on the subway, but the main issue is all the Knicks fans that were priced out of NYC and moved to philly area post covid. We live amongst each other now, zip code restrictions won’t do anything about that.

I worked with multiple people that commuted from Philly to Manhattan daily. They had quicker commutes than some of my colleagues going back to Suffolk County.

True! I’m a certified Clippers hater but I’ve been to a few games there and the wall is pretty cool

Does the ticket purchase agreement say you have to be a Clippers fan?

if a ticket bought with a Philadelphia address is used by someone who shows up wearing Knicks gear

Rip any Knicks fan living in the Philly area then 😂

At least the locals are profiting then

The goal isn’t to fully stop, it is to reduce, and it seems like this policy would help with that even though, sure, you can’t fully prevent out-of-towners from getting tickets if they’re so inclined

It will most definitely mitigate the issue. Sure, some will get around the rules, but it’ll take more money and effort that others won’t be willing to give up.

I think a lot of the Knicks fans were traveling just because it’s that much cheaper than a MSG game.

“We’re tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!”

You’re not the only one - I’ve got a lot of family in Philly (some of the ‘awful fans’ I was talking about lol) and some of them will just flat out deny the size difference between the two cities. Or they’ll start to claim Trenton and shit lol

Either way, I am born to a Brooklyn parent and a Philly parent myself, spent most of my life between the 2 cities, and I can say for certain that NYC feels endless at times. Like I can specifically recall times growing up where we’d enter Manhattan and I’d think ‘We’re here!!’ only to then have to take another like 2hrs to get to my aunts place on Flatbush lol

Exactly.

That’s one of the things with Knicks fandom - we’re Yankees fans and Mets fans, Giants and Jets, Rangers and Islanders, uptowners and downtowners, trust fund babies and housing project residents, wall st traders and artists - but everyone comes together for the Knicks. For better or worse, sometimes lol

Also yeah it does suck for the Nets, especially with how they got screwed over by the merger and had to sell Dr J to the 76ers all those years ago. I have family in Brooklyn and I essentially don’t know any Nets fans there. My North Jersey friends still support them though, and I know a dude from Long Island that loves them, too. I’m the rare Knicks fan that doesn’t outright hate the Nets or the 6ers - I save that for the Celtics and the Pacers lol

I don’t know Chicago well enough to compare, but I appreciate that info, cause I find this shit fascinating.

I remember when I lived down South that the physical size of the cities there surprised me. Like we’d be driving in the woods and you’d see a sign that says ‘Winston- Salem, city limit’ or whatever - and its like dude, I haven’t seen a person or a house for like 10mins - what are we doing here how is THIS the ‘city limit’ lol

I don’t even think it’s a few, more like 1.5 hours most 😭

Nice and convenient

They still will, Knicks fans are gonna drive up prices on the secondary market realistically

And factor in all the fans in New Jersey. Philly stadium is barely 45 minutes from me in jersey.. was hoping they didn’t do this so I could go lol

Eric Andre “Let Me In” meme applies here

And it’s not really even that far

Money is kinda a problem but it’s backwards. Tickets at the Garden are so insanely expensive that going away to Philly is a far more affordable experience for a Knicks fan

Knicks are second to nobody the lakers fans aren’t close to the Knicks fans

Lakers have more fans than Knicks, but Knicks have legit die hard fans. Lakers fans nationally are just star-f’ers and bandwagoners.

Also a lot of people are living in Philly from NYC area. I joked with a friend that NYC is gentrifying Philly lol

Same with the Hawks, and Celtics to a lesser degree.

Ain’t no one wants to go to Indiana though so they didn’t get the same treatment.

The flight and tickets was probably still cheaper than going to a game in the Garden. lol

I drove up from DC just to see some playoff basketball but it was the game they got massacred so it’s smart to keep me out

People in NYC are closer to Philly than Pittsburg residents

Do you know how big Pennsylvania is?

New York is closer than Pittsburgh.

South Jersey Knicks fans about to eat

No one lives in Central Jersey

A price we’re willing to pay

Lmao fair enough 

Like an hour and a half by train

When you can make 20% more, you find ways to make that time productive/worthwhile

yes…

They probably all Knicks fans out there too traitorous ass mfers

They don’t sell tickets and then randomly take them back. They just restrict the sale from the start.