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Originally Posted by tredadda
Understand, but they are a bigger city with a history with the team. If they did not have that history, I would fully agree that they are an awful choice. It's that history that gives them the edge over all the other places mentioned who are also either smaller, or just poor fits due to geography.
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Yeah but the history just isn't good and it's only in the minds of those who watch the Chargers on TV. The old stadium was hardly ever sold out because the people that live in San Diego just didn't care about football enough to show up in droves every Sunday.
They never had a parking lot filled with people grilling and drinking like at Arrowhead and the actual core fan base there was very small. When a hotel and car rental tax was proposed to build a new downtown stadium for the Chargers a few years back, it was easily defeated. Contrast that to the hotel and car rental tax that was proposed (and approved) for Arrowhead renovations. It passed and the stadium received nearly $400 million in upgrades.
San Diego isn't a sports town, period. The Chargers are a shit franchise run by a broke ass family whose only wealth is in the franchise itself. Los Angeles doesn't want them, nor does San Diego. They're stuck in LA for the next 20 years and if they did attempt to move again, the new owners would have to pay yet another $650 million dollar Relocation Fee.
They should have moved to Las Vegas and shared the Raiders stadium but that is no longer an option.