Chargers moving to LA
 

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">A stunner: Chargers plan to announce as early as Thursday they are moving to LA, ending 55-year stint with SD, league sources tell ESPN.</p>&mdash; Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/819376593734946816">January 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Not really a surprise at all

This X 100.

Who is stunned?

Talk about a Chiefs/Raiders/Broncos home game in LA.

And also Vegas probably soon.

No kidding.SD voters rejected deal after deal to keep them there. Finally they said fine, we are leaving.

Not enough people in LA care about football. That city can't support two football teams, particularly two teams that happened to arrive within one year of each other. If you live in LA and like football, odds are you were already a fan of some other team. And if you're an old-timer resident of LA, you've seen so many football teams come and go from your city that you gotta be laughing at the notion that a couple of windbag owners think THIS time it's gonna work out in the long run.

Going to seem really strange to play the Los Angeles Chargers and the Las Vegas Raiders.

The AFC West is being shaken up again.

I don't know. Vegas is filled with Raiders and Cowpies fans.

In before all three charger fans.

Ok. Now what?

Moving Oakland to Las Vegas will be the final sign, as if we needed another, that the nfl has completely sold out. Ugh.

It's actually kind of sad. Now they're going to have to re-record this song. "Los-An-Gel-Es" does fit the number of syllables, but it just sounds like crap

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I think the Rams won a lot of fans back by moving back.

The Chargers don't inspire anyone.

Hey, it's a diddy sighting! How's it going buddy?

Wow, I attended the last Chargers home game in San Diego.

What was the city of San Diego thinking in not forking over millions of dollars?!?!?!

Are you in LA County now? If so, call me!

Now I can guarantee at least one Chiefs game per year in my own backyard... ;)

Sorry, Chargers fans.

They came out better than st Louis fans.

This article says they're expected to play in the StubHub Center (capacity 27k) until the Rams stadium gets built. That's hilarious and sad, but would be a fun way to watch a game.

http://www.foxsports.com/nfl/story/c...angeles-011117

Cool

Not the Coliseum?



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Those "fans" sure didn't show up for games. Did you see that stadium?

That'd be an experience to see an NFL game in a stadium that small.

I just heard about the preseason being full. I'd rather kill myself with a dagger made of dried semen then watch a Rams game.

It's going well man. How's things with you?

Doing great.

Come around more often. You still in south mo?

I'm confused, How would that be any different than Qualcomm?

Now Oakland to LA and then Cleveland to LA.

It will be complete.

ROFL
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I wonder if they'll be able to sell it out.

the chargers can't play at wimbeldon :D

there should be a rule in the nfl, that if a team leaves a city, that city should not be allowed to petition for another franchise for 20 years.

the new cleveland browns are a perfect example...

You're the perfect example of a raging dumbshit.

Cleveland will never lose the Browns.

K

every time you burp do you pop a cum bubble? admit it, you do don't you ROFL

I think this was true when the Rams and Raiders left, but now there is a whole generation that grew up without a team and may be interested. I think things are different now. Time will tell.

If they really are playing at the Stubhub center, this is fukin awesome! I can't wait to go see the Chiefs play there. :)

Adios!

There would be 80,000 empty seats at the Coliseum if they played there. Intimate, rowdy 20k crowd much better optics.

Normally I would point and laugh but I feel bad for San diego fans, I don't hate them as much as the other 2 shit teams. Reading their forum today gave me instant depression

It's definitely a stunningly stupid idea

I bet it would kind of rule

Depends on what your idea of stunningly stupid is. The value of the franchise is rumored to increase by over a billion dollars by relocating to LA.

With the increase of International Games, the taxpayers footing the bills on these extravagant dumps lose 1/8th of their home games on any given season for.....reasons.

I know it's awful to watch the Chargers bolt to LA, but good for you San Diego on sticking to that billionaire prick.

I've been to probably 10 games in SD over the last 20 years.
Shit stadium? Yes.
Loud fans filling the stadium? No.
But it seems like they do have a smaller group of real diehards who really love the team, show up early, put on a decent tailgate scene, and really are into the games.
I feel bad for them. It would suck to lose you team, even if they suck. It's pathetic that the billionaires who run things can't figure out a way to stay put, even if means not making an extra nickel that moving might bring in.

Let's go to the game next year. Right down the 405. Of course that could still mean a three hour commute haha

Yup

Exactly. Or even putting some of that money into impriving the gameday experience somehow

Great idea. Punish a city if an idiot owner decides to **** it over.

:facepalm:

A horrible, terrible, no good decision... they're going to fail miserably in LA

The Murph may not be all that great, but its a helluva lot better than a 27k seat venue and then moving on to share a stadium they played no part in building

Its a disgrace for the NFL and a real shame for good fans of the Chargers

The talking heads on the radio this morning said they are even moving away from the Chargers name. A whole new mascot etc...

Anyone else hear this?

Yep. Said they have had some discussion about rebranding...:shake:

Wow. Jsut wow. Plaschke lays the boom.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-...111-story.html

They're going to have even more Eli Mannings refusing to go there after being drafted, and they're gonna pay out the ass for any free agent they want... they just became the ultimate NFL dead end

Didnt Rivers say he'd retire if/when they moved? So add finding a new franchise QB to their list of woes

LOL.. No shit!!

A 650 million relocation fee? Yikes..

Really dumb move to rename the Chargers. They should be able to keep 50% or more of their existing fanbase by keeping the name, while getting all of LA. Changing the name just alienates San Diegoans more than needed

Hopefully this will scare Toub away.

Harsh, but it's hard to disagree with any of that.

Garbage franchise that has won 0 SBs and lost to the crappy Browns that were on pace for 0 wins not to long ago.

Anyone surprised that the fans didn't vote for them to stay is crazy. It is actually expected IMO. SD isn't even a sports city anyway it's more a party/beach city.

I hope so. I'd rather see the Chargers buried than to live this terrible half-life. Their fans at least deserve that closure.

That's a good point. I think that situation would make a lot of coaches pause.

"I'm stunned" said no one ever.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Chargers?src=hash">#Chargers</a> owner Dean Spanos will tell his staff that the team is moving to LA at 11 pm ET and it will be announced shortly. It’s happening.</p>&mdash; Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) <a href="https://twitter.com/RapSheet/status/819566557701533696">January 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Wow. That is not a lot of time to pack!

Well, technically the fans didn't vote for them to move. They voted to not give a handout to a billionaire who owns one of only 32 teams in the most profitable sport in North America.

I am proud of SD drawing a line publicly for refusing to be held hostage of doling out corporate welfare in exchange to ransom demands by some obscenely rich prick trying to force their hand by threat of taking away the team.

They paid a steep cost to stand on principle of there is absolutely zero justification why the general public should subsidize a new stadium unless they have an equity stake in seeing future profits on their investment. Especially in today's age, the profitability of the modern NFL, and the fact that these stadiums today aren't multi-use municipal facilities to enrich the community otherwise.

This is the pinnacle of Goodell blunders

The NFL should have put the Raiders in Los Angeles and the Chargers in Las Vegas.

Toub is not a proven head coach. If he gets offered 4X his current pay to go show he can be one he will take the job.

Yeah San Diego looks like the noble city that did not blink to this kind of corporate welfare. Except you have the case of the Padres. Who are the Padres you say? They are a MLB franchise that NOBODY in the US, let alone Southern California, even knows exist. Yet when the Padres were crying for new digs, the city ponied up. To me this looks like a repeat of Cleveland. Cleveland took care of the Cavs and Indians, but neglected the Browns. Modell left and the city paid twice as much to get back into the game than they would have had they met reasonable requests earlier. San Diego can do what they want. Many believe they care less about any sports team for the most part. However, if a city outside the huge metro areas want the prestige and exposure that comes with major league sports, they need to keep reasonable care of their home teams. On the principle I totally agree that this stadium extortion is BS, but that is how the game is currently played. If history is any indicator they will feel good about flipping the Chargers the bird then be lining up for a new NFL franchise in 5 years IMO.

Yup.

I hate the raiders. But they have a fan base worth building around. I don't want that stadium to be bastardized with a bunch of drunk tourists, many of whom may not even be raisers fans. Give that to a fan base that doesn't give a shit about their team, like the chargers. This is what happens when owners care more about greed than what's right for the nfl.

Ironic that the first year the NFL is back in LA in 20+ years and the overall NFL TV ratings for this season were down, even with the post-election bounce.

So what happens to Buck?

New Chargers logo will be great on a hat.

I know that the Rams have the history, but I can see the Chargers establishing themselves well there.

Absolutely... if moving was unavoidable, then that was the way to go

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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-partner="tweetdeck"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Based on the quality of their new logo, the Chargers literally decided to move to L.A. last night.</p>&mdash; ProFootballTalk (@ProFootballTalk) <a href="https://twitter.com/ProFootballTalk/status/819583066331119616">January 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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The response below the original tweet basically sums it up.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="und" dir="ltr"><a href="https://twitter.com/NFL">@NFL</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/Chargers">@Chargers</a> <a href="https://t.co/uThSF9XbGh">pic.twitter.com/uThSF9XbGh</a></p>&mdash; Mark Dalton (@TheMarkDalton) <a href="https://twitter.com/TheMarkDalton/status/819582496513921026">January 12, 2017</a></blockquote>
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I think every diehard chargers fan should buy season tickets to the Rams now.

Congrats to the Los Angeles Shockers.