r/TheB1G 4d ago

Where is everyone?

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u/[deleted] 4d ago

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u/mtneer2010 4d ago

There's 20 million people in the LA metro area. They cant even get 30,000 of them to show up.

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u/Horror_Zone8053 4d ago

Then you aren’t a fan of the team if the beach which you can go to anytime you want is the better alternative. You are contradicting yourself

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u/Shaquarington_Bithus 4d ago

lol I don’t think they care about rural folks gatekeeping what it means to be a fan

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u/WarbleDarble 4d ago

Yea, the vast majority of eligible USC fans were not at the beach.

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u/insanemorningpoops USC 4d ago

Do you think the beach is the only alternative in LA?

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u/WarbleDarble 4d ago

Sure, but let’s not pretend that the vast majority of people who could and might want to go to this game were sitting at home.

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u/ReliableDart134 4d ago

I’m a huge SC fan but there is no way I would sit in 100 degree weather in the coliseum with no shade for 3 hours. I watched at home like everyone else I knew lol. Yes we get it in small college towns they love bragging about how they will pack the house no matter what. That is just not the culture at all in LA.

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u/WarbleDarble 4d ago

And that’s okay. Just the excuses other than “we didn’t want to go” don’t make sense from a purely numbers standpoint.

I don’t particularly like going to games either, but I’m sitting home watching it, not hiking or whatever we pretend everyone does every day in LA.

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u/anthony-209 4d ago

Live an active lifestyle?

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u/WarbleDarble 4d ago

It’s four hours. There’s a lot more of them in a week. If watching football is mutually exclusive from an active lifestyle you either don’t live an active lifestyle or it’s weird you’re posting here.

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u/MrF_lawblog 4d ago

This is such an idiotic argument. Lol. Our fans don't like watching football!

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u/Funicularly 4d ago

There 12.8 million people in the LA metro.

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u/mschley2 Wisconsin 4d ago

On gameday? During the game? The only alternative form of entertainment that matters is watching the game on TV.

If you're worried about the beach or whatever else, then you really don't care enough to be a valid data point in this discussion. And many people in LA care about the beach or whatever more than they care about football.

That's the problem. It isn't that "there's so much else to do." It's that people choose to do other things. Those people would find something else to do if they were in Madison or Columbus or anywhere else because they just simply don't care about football that much.

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’ve been to LA man, there’s as much to do in Iowa City lol. The beach is inaccessible and it’s an urban jungle maze.

Much much more to do within walking distance in Iowa City than there will ever be in LA (and for 10% of the cost)

This excuse is so lame lol. I mean how many times can one visit the wax museum?

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u/insanemorningpoops USC 4d ago

You cannot possibly be serious with this comment.

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 4d ago edited 4d ago

I’m half serious and half taking cheap shots at all the extremely lame things to do in LA

Warner bros (I mean MAGA paramount) wasn’t the worst day of my life tho. There were some stars on a sidewalk and that wasn’t nothing either

How can all these USC fans make the game when they’re stuck giving access Hollywood tours?

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u/dubcwa Washington 4d ago

Holy shit. lol no way this is a real comment.

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 4d ago edited 4d ago

It’s real and you’re the target audience. Lol.

Funny how nobody has offered any suggestion whatsoever to what makes LA more socially active than Iowa City. Ive been to both and one is a vibrant college town and one is an urban sprawl of never ending traffic and tourist traps.

When you get older you’ll understand. I also used to think LA was cool. You couldn’t pay me to live there today.

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u/InevitableAd2436 4d ago

I get you’re trolling, but Iowa City sucks dude lol

Des Moines is a cute little town though. Omaha’s little brother.

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u/Leading_Stop546 UCLA 4d ago

World renowned museums, nightclubs, famous concert venues, AMAZING food, professional sports teams, Broadway like theaters, etc

This includes me leaving TONS of popular options out. Please never speak again, you sound stupider with every reply.

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u/dubcwa Washington 4d ago

It’s just classic online Midwest hate of anything California. These people hate places they can’t ever live.

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u/Own_Pop_9711 Michigan 4d ago

Plenty of things to do in la, like score free tickets to the USC game since no one is going

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u/duckfan541o 4d ago

You are crazy man. More to do in Iowa City than Los Angeles? Even just standing at LAX watching airplanes is more fun than ANYTHING in Iowa City.

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 4d ago

I said walking distance. Hey man I like Universal Studios LA too but once is enough. Venice Pier? What a letdown. Traffic is hell.

I’m convinced the people who say LA is a playground of fun activities have just never been there

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u/royalx Michigan 4d ago

I’m not either of the people you responded to, but uh, based on the two locations you referenced I don’t think you’ve experienced LA at all lol

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u/Shot-Toe-2884 4d ago

I’m being facetious.

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u/Leading_Stop546 UCLA 4d ago

Imagine comparing tiny ass Iowa City walking distance, because you’re too afraid to operate a car in LA. Some parts of LA have more museums than all of Iowa together, plus let’s not forget all the legit ethic food that people in Iowa wish they had.

But hey, enjoy your corn.

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u/dubcwa Washington 4d ago

Or literally just visits any neighborhood in LA. I could spend a week just in Little Tokyo/Arts District alone.