Rams getting better ratings in St. Louis than in L.A.

The Rams may have left St. Louis without a football team, but you wouldn't know it by looking at the television ratings. More fans in the team's old city are tuning into see its games than fans in Los Angeles.

Via the St. Louis Post-Dispatch:

Nielsen, which tracks viewership, reports that 10.6 percent of homes with a TV in St. Louis tuned in to see the Rams trudge to a 24-3 loss Thursday night to Seattle in their most recent contest. The figure in LA was 10.2. (The game was shown on NBC and NFL Network in both markets, and the ratings cited are the combined numbers for those outlets.)

Either fans in St. Louis are sticking with the team even after the move, or they just love watching the Rams get blown out. We've seen enough proof to assume it's probably the latter.

This isn't a new trend either. The television ratings for Rams games haven't been good in Los Angeles all season.

The high point was the 16.1 rating their opener generated, but it has been straight downhill from there. The team now is averaging a 9.4 rating in LA (9.7 if a game in London that began at 6:30 a.m. in Southern California is thrown out). That is worse than what the Rams drew in St. Louis for any game, not season, while they were based in the Gateway City.

Even more concerning is the team's underwhelming attendance. Yes, the Rams have been difficult to watch, but teams moving to a new home usually have no problems selling out their stadiums in that first year. At the same time, Los Angeles is no ordinary city. The Rams have a ton of competition for their fans' attention. Right now, they are doing a bad job of capturing it.