Dean Spanos forced to sell Chargers?

[Kiimo]

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.

I don't think Fredo would have done worse in the family business ..it's about time we quit insulting Fredo by using his name to refer to Dean@sdutCanepa pic.twitter.com/Vnh7LcPJFc

— Burt Grossman (@burt_grossman) May 25, 2021

[ToxSocks]

My bad, 35,000 seats: https://aztecstadium.com/

[Kiimo]

Wow that link has a live camera at the dig site.


It is not at all too late to make modifications in my opinion. Of course this whole mess could take years to play out so that's probably a pipe dream

[Dunerdr]

The sdsu stadium thing is a pipe dream unless they could sell the team and agree to shit really ****ing fast. They will be a toronto expansion team. Orrrr Mexico City.

[Sofa King]

Elon Musk would be an interesting owner. Too bad California ran him out of there. Maybe he could buy the Texans for cheap.

[jettio]

The Jets and Giants have shared a Stadium since the 1980's.

SoFi Stadium was built with field turf playing surface. Even if the team is sold, the Chargers will play their games there.

[Valiant]

I don't see mexico ever being viable long term. Too much safety issues for players, fans let alone quality issues with the fields.
Then imagine what some of the gangs would try doing.

I low-key want to see all these cities say **** off to billionaires. Build your own shit, taxpayers see no benefit s, that money cities dole out could be better used. Or let cities bid and own the teams.

[DaneMcCloud]

The Chargers have a 20 year lease with two 10 year options and owe $200 million for the construction of the stadium on top of the $650 million dollar relocation fee.

San Diego has already destroyed The Murph and the residents will not, under any circumstances, allow additional hotel and car taxes to be implemented towards funding a new football stadium.

Jeff Bezos would be the absolute worst possible owner for the NFL, as his net worth and income literally dwarf the entire NFL's yearly revenues. It would take nearly 20 years of the NFL's total revenues to match Bezos' net worth at this point in time and the other 31 owners would become his puppets, so I just cannot see that happening. Those owners enjoy the spotlight and treasure being one of 32 of the most powerful men in all of sports. All of that would disappear if Bezos bought the Chargers.

Maybe the NFL can find another person willing to eat almost $1.5 billion in relocation fees while spending another $2 billion on a stadium and at least $2.5 billion on the team itself but I find that to be unlikely as well.

The bottom line is that the Chargers franchise is royally ****ed for the foreseeable future.

[ChiefsCountry]

No offense but if you are a billionaire you are buying it because of them being in Los Angeles. Chargers would have been better served to be in Orange County and market themselves as SoCal team but stadium cost issues wouldn't allow that.

[RedinTexas]

Originally Posted by Valiant

I low-key want to see all these cities say **** off to billionaires. Build your own shit, taxpayers see no benefit s, that money cities dole out could be better used. Or let cities bid and own the teams.

Amen.

[RedinTexas]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

Jeff Bezos would be the absolute worst possible owner for the NFL, as his net worth and income literally dwarf the entire NFL's yearly revenues. It would take nearly 20 years of the NFL's total revenues to match Bezos' net worth at this point in time and the other 31 owners would become his puppets, so I just cannot see that happening. Those owners enjoy the spotlight and treasure being one of 32 of the most powerful men in all of sports. All of that would disappear if Bezos bought the Chargers.

And yet they had no problem allowing Paul Allen to buy the Seahawks.

[jettio]

Chargers will find a buyer and are better positioned to be successful than many NFL franchises.

They have decent scouting department, Justin Herbert looks like a keeper. game attendance might be a bit of a mystery, but they should just set prices that will get tickets sold and make money with TV money. If they put good teams on the field, they will grow their fan base and there are not that many NFL games a year. Chargers fans in San Diego can sign back up if the team becomes a team that fans would want to root for.

Having a new owner will be a re-branding opportunity.

[SAGA45]

Originally Posted by Detoxing

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.

Off topic but your mention of the Aztecs reminded me of how badly I wanted the Chiefs to draft Kirk Morrison when he came out...

[FloridaMan88]

It should have been Rams/Raiders in LA and Chargers to Las Vegas.

[ChiefsCountry]

Originally Posted by KCChiefsFan88

It should have been Rams/Raiders in LA and Chargers to Las Vegas.

If the Raiders fan base weren't ****tards this is what should have happened.

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by RedinTexas

And yet they had no problem allowing Paul Allen to buy the Seahawks.

Paul Allen and Jeff Bezos are polar opposites.

Paul Allen had a net worth of $20 billion at his death, not at the time of his purchase.

Bezos is not only worth nearly $200 billion, his influence is absolutely everywhere, especially since he owns the Washington Post, Amazon Prime and now MGM studios.

His ownership would overshadow the other 31 owners, something their egos just could not handle.