Dang. I know SF has a great fanbase and the Rams are new but they just won the Super Bowl. I dont think I've ever seen a road crowd like this. It literally looks like there's no Rams fans at all in their own stadium.
OT: Largest road crowd ever (49ers @ Rams)
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Dang. I know SF has a great fanbase and the Rams are new but they just won the Super Bowl. I dont think I've ever seen a road crowd like this. It literally looks like there's no Rams fans at all in their own stadium.
As someone who has lived in Southern California for almost 20 years, I can tell you that the football dynamic here is very strange. The Chargers had a better fan base in San Diego than the Rams ever did in LA (the Raiders will have a huge following no matter where they play. Raiders fans are Raiders fans and that’s it). And then Spanos decides to move the Chargers to…….LA? Not even downtown LA or a new and experimental area, but the exact locale that the Rams already played in decades earlier with a minimal fan base that already supports the Rams. And I grew up a Redskins fan in the 80s and 90s until the worst owner in NFL history came along and destroyed everything. I threw in the towel about 4 years ago and will probably never go back. Most of you guys are Steelers fans but when you complain, just think about how much worse you could have it, lol
Steelers have had a lot of road games like that. Likely another one in Vegas Sunday. SF has a good fanbase combined with probably their best team in years.
I will say sometimes road crowds look a little inflated because the camera is usually facing the road side (just like it’s worse for empties at Heinz). The SF game here was like that to a lessor degree. A lot of SF fans, but it was mostly on that TV facing side. Still I’d say they had 15- 20k, which might be the largest road crowd I had ever seen here. More than WVU’s “70%”
I will say sometimes road crowds look a little inflated because the camera is usually facing the road side (just like it’s worse for empties at Heinz). The SF game here was like that to a lessor degree. A lot of SF fans, but it was mostly on that TV facing side. Still I’d say they had 15- 20k, which might be the largest road crowd I had ever seen here. More than WVU’s “70%”
Karma evens it out for us in Pittsburgh, because of our baseball's team ownership. Luckily we've had the Penguins, so 2 out 3 ain't bad.
At NFL games there is no such thing as a "road side" as far as the fans are concerned. Teams do not set aside thousands of tickets for away fans like they do in college. In the NFL the whole stadium is the "home side".
And I dont think they give any tickets to the visitor at all, maybe just a few tickets per players for their wives and kids. This is a policy they should change though. They should give visitors 5K or so tickets and have it heavily guarded like in Europe and ban visiting fans (defined as someone wearing the gear of that team) in the rest of the stadium....like in Europe. People cannot control themselves or their liquor anymore.
I think there's some elements of the Steelers fans dynamic at play, like when the Steelers fans take over the stadium in say, Arizona or Houston, the announcers say that ''Steelers fans travel well", when they aren't traveling, those people live there year-round. I know of this group of four 49ers fans that went to the game in Pittsburgh, posted pictures of themselves on Facebook in their 49ers jersey, they did travel, they traveled from their lifelong home, in Baltimore, they just became 49ers fans, probably in the 80s, when the 9ers where good and Baltimore had no team.
Missed the point. There is a propensity for fans of the road team to buy tickets on the secondary market behind the side where their team bench is.
For the most part, that side is on the far side of the main camera. A few exceptions (NE, CLE) come to mind. But you see the visitor fans more for that reason.
Yep, even the lightly attended game for road teams have most of the fans on the lower level behind the visitor's bench. The San Francisco crowd was the largest away contingent for a Steelers game and no one has even been close to that amount. Oddly enough it was also one of the quietest visitor crowds as well. Not much cheering until the game was out of control in the fourth.
You are right, but the 49er seriously looked 90%-95% red. That's just too many Niner fans for the Rams side to look much different.
BTW, I didnt buy that Pitt/PSU panorama they did because they ALWAYS take that shot of the visitor sideline where most of the visiting fans sit. It was probably like 70/30 Pitt on the PSU sideline but that was still too much for me to hang up in the man cave
