Timsup2nothin
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Chargers are playing two years while they wait for the stadium in a 30K seat stadium in Carson. Someone raised the very ugly question: what happens if they can't sell that out?
Meh, regional naming seems to have worked out OK for the Pats and Panthers and Golden State. When I was a kid my Dad's bar downstairs had pennants of local teams on the wall, including a "Boston Patriots" pennant and a "New England Whalers" pennant. I guess winning is probably more important than naming.That went really poorly for the California Angels. Placating the few by snubbing the many is not the best business plan ever devised.
We. Don’t. Want. You.
LOL...just saw an ESPN talking head saying how sad this is because "San Diego always supported this team. Some places the fans stop turning out, but even with just one superbowl appearance that stadium was always full."
I'm thinking that this guy has never seen a San Diego Charger "home" game. Let's use Pittsburgh for example. If the Steelers come to town the only question is whether the fans coming from Pittsburgh for a weekend of fun and sun and seeing their team will be outnumbered by the expatriate Pennsylvanians driving down from LA for the rare opportunity to see their team. There is no question that either group, by themselves, will outnumber the Charger fans.
The response in LA is hilarious. The top sports columnist at the LA Times started his column today with this::
Nobody seems inclined to dispute this.
I dunno if I'll stick with them. A Chargers Super Bowl win that was for Los Angeles and not a drought-breaking and curse-breaking win for San Diego would feel very hollow.
Maybe they'll rebrand and make things simpler.
Well now that depends on where the two LA teams train and put their offices I guess
Until Hawaii gets a team...San Diego is the closest team to Australia.
The Los AngelesAngels of AnaheimChargers of San Diego
They should rename themselves the Los Angels Ewes
EDIT: They do have a cool new logo though.
...you mean the Dodgers logo?
The Raiders are about to fill in the paperwork in order to move to Las Vegas...So, the NFL team carousel isn't quite over yet...They would still need to have the proposal voted by the other owners, and the Raiders would probably still play the next 2 seasons in Oakland, but it seems like the move is happening...