How is size important when the two of the three largest cities in this country can't maintain a team and the smallest town to maintain a professional team owns in attendance?
How can Nebraska sell out 80,000 seats for over 40 years straight?
Nebraska has horrid weather, so weather isn't as much of an issue, where as LA has great weather and people won't show up for games.
When I went to the Rosebowl, I bought a scalped ticket, two actually. Face value was $125 per ticket. I bought them for $30 a piece well before kickoff, for one of the major BCS Bowl games. No one cared. There were empty seats, and I nabbed two cheap.
There are no sports fans in LA. The Lakers are the one major franchise out there that people support, and it has nothing to do with sports. It is a celebrity status to own Lakers tickets. Ask people in LA to name the 5 starters for the Lakers last year, and I bet you they can't.
The size of the city doesn't matter.