Cali Wolverine

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.

CoverZero

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?

Rabbit21

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.

MGoRob

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.

The Dreaded Re…

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.

SD Larry

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.   

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Sambojangles

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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mgoblue0970

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.

taistreetsmyhero

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.

WestQuad

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.  

True Blue Grit

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.