OT: Chargers Moving to Los Angeles

[Gator Mike]

Already reports on Twitter that the team will play their first season in LA at the 27,000 seat Stub Hub Center.

 

[Joey007]

Just sad, really. Can empathize, hard to believe how close we were to losing our team a couple decades ago.

 

[captain insano]

sad. the chargers belong in san diego.

 

[Tunescribe]

What a shame. Screw Spanos. That team will have no identity going forward.

 

[Gator Mike]

I mean, shouldn't LA show they can support one NFL team before they get another?

 

[Wheelman]

I applaud the people of San Diego saying no to handouts to the corrupt 32. More cities need to follow in the footsteps of San Diego.

Congrats San Diego! You did the right thing! I salute you!

 

[Armchair Quarterback]

$650 million relocation fee, of course it got approved. Raiders up next. The other owners will make an extra $40-50 million in relocation fees alone this year.

 

[Joey007]

Both the Chargers and Raiders belong in San Diego and Oakland.

 

[meatface]

Just sad, really. Can empathize, hard to believe how close we were to losing our team a couple decades ago.

to me this seems like when the Pats wanted to move to CT, but granted im from CT so maybe you massholes were a lot more upset

 

[Nikolai]

Yeah, the Rams really boosted the bottom line out there in LA. Dumb NFL...

I applaud the people of San Diego saying no to handouts to the corrupt 32. More cities need to follow in the footsteps of San Diego.

Congrats San Diego! You did the right thing! I salute you!

I agree with this point of view, but it's still a damned shame the team is leaving.

 

[deroc5050]

The LA market may be huge but most of them are transplants and its not a huge NFL market.. I don't understand why you would want multiple teams there. In SD's case the owner wanted public funding for a new Stadium in SD, they got less than half the vote and apparently chargers fans aren't that great.

I think its pretty ****ty for billionare owners to ask the public to help them pay for a stadium. Thats like totally taking advantage of people. It got 43% of the vote which is actually pretty damn high, but for that kind of public funding SD residents needed a 75% vote in favor of the 650 million.

 

[juny]

Sucks for SD, but at the same time, Qualcomm wasn't exactly selling out consistently either

 

[SalemPats]

so dumb, why does LA a non-football city need 2 teams?

 

[Koma]

2 NFL teams in LA? I've seen this movie before.

 

[YOUGOTMOSSED]

This really sucks! I really enjoyed visiting SD for Pats road games.

Did they wind up in that sh*thole Inglewood?

 

[AtomicDawg]

The good news is that there should be plenty of P.F. Changs in LA.

 

[SammyBlueCat]

to me this seems like when the Pats wanted to move to CT, but granted im from CT so maybe you massholes were a lot more upset

There was also an attempt to move to St Louis.

 

[varjao]

The games in SD were unwatchable, this team is a total dumpster fire and Rivers is 3 times more choker than Tony Romo and no one calls him for that.

 

[pheenix11]

What a bunch of money grubbing corporate welfare queens. So the Chargers have enough money for a $650 million relocation fee but not enough to build their own stadium without gorging themselves on public money? The NFL and Goodell disgust me more and more every day. When Belichick & Brady retire I may join them.

Two teams in LA? They can't even support one! What a joke.

 

[Delicate Genius]

2 NFL teams in LA? I've seen this movie before.

It's the only way that city is gonna win eight games next season.