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ELI5: How/why did Los Angeles, the second-largest US city, not have a home NFL team for 20+ years?

I am not a very sports-savvy person and I feel like it might be the case for a number of reasons.
gpt
3 primary reasons. 1 - The NFL has TV blackouts in the area if the local team doesn't sell out their home game. LA had two teams in two different divisions, so games would be blacked out all the time when one of the teams wasn't great and didn't sell out. So when the two teams left, and LA could watch all the football it wanted, it was kind of nice.

2 - La refused to build a stadium. If someone wanted to move a team, the owner had to pay for it themselves.  Smaller cities felt it was more important for civic reasons to keep a team, so they would help build a new stadium.  When teams threatened to move to LA, the current city would offer help in building a brand new stadium and LA would not, so the teams would stay. And LA did not in part because...

3 - There's a ton to do in LA; lots of other professional teams, multiple high-level college teams, the beaches, hollywood, etc. So LA didn't care as much about having a team as a city that is more defined by its sporting program to get on the map. So in general, the attitude from LA was "sure, we'd like another team, but we're not going to make a huge effort over it because we're kind of too cool to show we care"