Dean Spanos forced to sell Chargers?
 

This is amazing.

Imagine owning a company that prints money for every other owner, in a stadium you didn't even build and still you bounce charity checks.


Watch Jeff Bezos buy this team and move it back to San Diego where he doesn't have to rent out a stadium to a competitor. This is all over the radio in LA right now.


<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">I don&#39;t think Fredo would have done worse in the family business ..it&#39;s about time we quit insulting Fredo by using his name to refer to Dean<a href="https://twitter.com/sdutCanepa?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@sdutCanepa</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vnh7LcPJFc">pic.twitter.com/Vnh7LcPJFc</a></p>&mdash; Burt Grossman (@burt_grossman) <a href="https://twitter.com/burt_grossman/status/1396992222202007559?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 25, 2021</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

SD is logical.

It could also go to Canada or London.

Lulz **** Dean Spanos.

The Chargers are one of the up and coming teams with a promising young QB and nobody cares here. There are Rams fans but nobody wants the Chargers here.

They're building a new stadium already in place of the old one in Qualcomm. It seems like a no-brainer to get someone with actual money involved, upgrade that stadium to NFL level and just play there.

That ship has sailed.

Qualcomm is a pile of sand and we're well in motion to build a 40K seat stadium in place of it for the SDSU Aztecs.

Jesus. This is definitely one instance where I'm pulling for Bezos to make the move.

How have the other owners not forced this turd out before now? Surely they have been aware of the Chargers' financials? Mark Davis thinks Dean Spanos is terrible at money, lol.

Yet they all fully supported the move to L.A.

Right I knew that, I don't actually know if it is too late to just make that stadium NFL ready?

New stadiums may only need 40k moving forward. I know that if someone like Bezos was involved he'd probably not want to have a landlord like the Chargers do now.

Basically I just really want the Chargers to go back to SD so it's more hope than actual logic

Very true. They got greedy thinking about that LA market.

I mean part of it was not wanting the Raiders here to pollute the property values in Inglewood.



At least that's my biased opinion

If new ownership bought the Chargers and moved them to San Diego they'd have an instant fan base again. Chargers fans get a bad rep that is undeserved. In the early 2000s I lived there and they were loud and proud with respectable tailgating before games. Gave me good-natured hell every year when I went to watch the Chiefs. Spanos destroyed that by making clear he would be moving the team, which led to fans saying "screw it then" and disappearing. But they'd come back in droves.

I want them back in SD too. The city is better when the NFL is in it. Though im not sure how much of that fan base still exists, or how many will return. I know several who've jumped shipped and found new teams to root for.

As far as Aztec Stadium goes, it's suppose to be built in a way to allow seat expansion. But with SDSU's plans to basically turn the surrounding areas into, essentially, an extension of a college campus, im not sure how suitable it will be for an NFL team and an owner like Bezos.

I'd guess SDSU might be willing to negotiate faced with the prospect of Bezos level money but I'm just speculating.

That's dumb

I can't imagine San Diego not welcoming back the Chargers if they showed back up without any Spanos influence connected to them. The Chargers ARE San Diego.