OT: Chargers officially moving to L.A. negbang thread
January 12th, 2017 at 12:57 PM ^
Oh, you don't say???
January 12th, 2017 at 12:58 PM ^
Repeated. It moves the stupid countdown thread further down the list.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
Their new logo
January 12th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
Not sure if serious, but if so thats pretty terrible, IMO.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:08 PM ^
ESPN OTL just said it's placeholder until they put out the new official mark. I've never heard of anything like that.
I call bullshit, Bob Ley.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:14 PM ^
Looks like they took the Dodgers and Tampa Bay Lightning's logos and combined them.
January 12th, 2017 at 2:40 PM ^
*checks mentions*
*squints*
*clears throat*
for the record, us & the @dodgers are just friends https://t.co/jBoJhZlYVD— Tampa Bay Lightning (@TBLightning) January 12, 2017
January 12th, 2017 at 2:33 PM ^
Excited about the new 4H club in LA
January 12th, 2017 at 2:35 PM ^
From: Los Angeles
Re: Move to LA
Fuck your and your money grab. Nobody in Los Angeles other than former Charger players living in LA, and/or San Diego translplants living in LA for work, want to see the Charges move to LA or even remotely like the Charges. We don't want or need the Clippers of Football.
The only positive for us Raiders fans is if you move to LA, you have essentially added a Raiders home game to the schedule for us. Boy will it be embarrassing playing in Los Angeles as the home team against a team that plays in another city...and seeing 90%-95% of the stadium wearing silver and black.
January 12th, 2017 at 3:28 PM ^
the Raiders thank you, Deano
January 12th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
Again?
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January 12th, 2017 at 1:06 PM ^
WTF THIS SHIT HAS NOTHI....
Oh, you put OT. THANK GOODNESS. That being said, I cant wait for the officially official thread.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:02 PM ^
As someone who lives here in LA, this sucks! I wish they just gave LA a expansion team.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:05 PM ^
They would do better to locate in Anaheim and work the OC. Inglehood is a cesspool. LA is an odd market. Can it support 2 NFL teams?
January 12th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
Yeah, I agree. Haven't had a team here in ages and now they have two crap squads.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
Agreed. This is a really odd move. I can't see both teams getting the fan support they need to survive for very long.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
Can't support one team.
That's why people move out of there in the first place.
Chalk up another "holy fuck, what a stupid idea this was" moment in a year or so.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:41 PM ^
Rams used to play there last few seasons in Anaheim back in the day. I used to go watch them but it was always kinda empty. Expansion team would of been the winning ticket
January 12th, 2017 at 1:07 PM ^
Stupid, just completely fucking stupid. No-one in LA gives two shits about the Chargers, so they just destroyed one fan base in the interest of building one in a city that doesn't give a shit about them.
Raiders to Vegas makes a certain amount of sense(if you are a product of an inbred gene-pool the way it appears Mark Davis is), but this is just stupid and it's going to come back to bite the Spanos' HARD.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:13 PM ^
Can you explain why? Are they just replacing one apathetic California city with another (albeit much larger) one?
January 12th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
From what I gather the main problem is the fact that the stadium is like 50-60 years old and needs to be renovated badly. They want a new stadium but the city keeps voting it down. Honestly, I don't know why they can't just charge extra for parking and tickets to make up the difference, but I guess it's a money-in-hand problem at that point.
January 12th, 2017 at 3:31 PM ^
back in the day. and the access to it is far better than what they'll have in LA. bad move.
January 12th, 2017 at 8:48 PM ^
Who the hell wants to go to Inglewood for a game? I don't want to hear shit about Detroit anymore.
January 12th, 2017 at 3:44 PM ^
I commented on this in the other thread, but Dean Spanos proposed a $1.8B stadium complex downtown, of which the Chargers would pay $350M and the NFL would provide as a $300M loan. Spanos sees other owners soaking their cities for public funds (such as here in Seattle), and wants some of those sweet sweet public dollars, but the taxpayers called his bluff. This is after a decade of ticket guarantees in which the city paid for every single unsold home game ticket.
My opinion, as a Chargers fan growing up, is don't let the door hit you on the ass, Dean.
January 12th, 2017 at 6:38 PM ^
and Metropolitan Transit Board dropped about 800 million on a trolley line and station at the stadium in the late 90's , and renovated the stadium for football before the Padres left if I remember correctly. I think they also built Chargers park for the team headquarters. It's true the stadium is no longer in great condition, but the City would have worked a favorable deal to rebuild on that site if Spanos would not have insisted on going downtown. Aside from easy freeway access to two major insterstates and the trolley station, it has the 3rd largest parking lot west of the Mississippi River.
FWIW, don't think it is a good thing when taxpayers and fans are getting shafted. Spanos and Fabiani have ruined and buried something special and some nice sports history for greed, but I doubt they will ever be supported in L.A. like they were in San Diego. Maybe someone will buy the Chargers and move them back. I know the fans in St. Louis have had a raw deal losing two NFL franchises, and I feel for them as well. It sucks but at least they have a great baseball franchise in the St. Louis Cardinals.
January 12th, 2017 at 8:47 PM ^
If the owners vote on expansion, do they vote on relocation too (before the fee is paid)? I cannot imagine that all owners are okay with how this is going down. It looks really bad for the league.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:16 PM ^
Going through downvoting, especially this???
January 12th, 2017 at 1:45 PM ^
Well it is labeled a negbang thread.
January 12th, 2017 at 5:42 PM ^
So who's the jerk going through and upvoting? Sheesh.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:10 PM ^
2/3 of the seats in the stadium will be empty in 2 years.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:12 PM ^
The Los Angeles Chargers will win the Super Bowl in 2018 with Tony Romo as their starting QB.
Incredible logo and all.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:14 PM ^
My favorite part is they'll be playing in a 30,000 seat stadium for 2 years
January 12th, 2017 at 1:19 PM ^
imagine if they couldn't sell that out
January 12th, 2017 at 2:22 PM ^
it's only 60,000 Cokes
January 12th, 2017 at 6:04 PM ^
I think it's actually kinda cool for an NFL team to play in such a small stadium. Better a small crowded atmosphere than an huge empty bowl (like the Rams in the Coliseum)
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January 12th, 2017 at 8:43 PM ^
30K is generous. That's not the current capacity. It needs some work to get that many in there.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:16 PM ^
but it is heading down a dark and stupid road. And like it or not, that doesn't bode well for college football.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
Please.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:27 PM ^
that is too big to fail. but it's been making idiotic decision after idiotic decision, and viewership is down, attendance is down, etc.
i don't expect the nfl and professional football to go anywhere any time soon, but i'd rather not worry about that possibility in my lifetime. and if the nfl goes, i can't really see a world where college football isn't significantly gutted as well.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:28 PM ^
You will be an old man like myself. I wouldn't worry about that happening anytime soon.
The concussion stuff is a bigger deal.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:40 PM ^
They were playing college football long before the NFL was created and it had rabid fans then. College football may be helped by a downturn in the NFL if anything.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:46 PM ^
doubt many kids will be working tirelessly to play college football without the allure of nfl $$$. for every vincent smith there are 100 cardale jones.
January 12th, 2017 at 2:03 PM ^
There seem to be plenty of kids who want to play college football at division 3 and even division 2 schools who understand there is no prospect of NFL money out there.
January 12th, 2017 at 2:11 PM ^
division 2 or division 3 football.
January 12th, 2017 at 4:16 PM ^
EH, I would watch Michigan division 2 or 3 football, just like I watch other random Michigan sports like softball when it's on, or bball/ hockey even when we are terrible. Realize I might be in the minority though.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:18 PM ^
I lived in LA in the early 2000's with no team. On the whole people in LA don't seem to care about spectator sports. There are enough people that you still get as many fans as say GreenBay/Brewers/Bucks, but I didn't know a lot of sports fans and when they were, it was usually for their home state team. There was some love for the Lakers and Dodgers, and I know a few hard core Kings fans, but it isn't like the rest of the country. I used to date someone at UCLA and would hang out in her lab and no one ever mentioned the football team. Ever.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:29 PM ^
watch them change the draft system to a lottery and gift the chargers or rams #1 pick after #1 pick a la the Cavs.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
There really are a lot of very loyal Chargers fans. But there are far more apothetic, non-NFL fans in San Diego from other parts of the country who don't want to pay anything for a new stadium. Especially the high-priced ultra-luxury one the NFL wants.
I'll always a bit of a soft spot for the SD Chargers. My first job out of U-M was in SD right when the whole San Diego Super Chargers thing was going on - Dan Fouts, Chuck Muncie, Wes Chandler, Charlie Joiner, Kellen Winslow, et al. One of the really explosive offenses in NFL history.
January 12th, 2017 at 1:22 PM ^
There is a serial neggist up in here.
Show yourself!