OT: Chargers Moving to Los Angeles

[TBR]

Much better version of the logo.

 

[RobertWeathers]

Lol! I thought that logo was a troll job by aggrieved chargers fans. That's a horrible logo!

Looks like something that goes on the side of puddle-jumper that goes from LA to Tijuana.

 

[MrNathanDrake]

Cool logo. From 0 teams in LA, to 2 teams in just a couple years.

 

[FrodoBagginz]

Cool logo. From 0 teams in LA, to 2 teams in just a couple years.

And back to 0 teams in another few years.

 

[varjao]

Man are you guys this logo stort, memes and other teams tweeting making fun of the chargers? They could not even make a good decision with a ****ing logo, talk about incompetence, the Chargers are trash, I hope they go 0-16 next season.

 

[rochrist]

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

Yeah, that's what I was thinking. They've proven they can't support one team, so let's give them two.

 

[Bill Lee]

There but for the grace of Kraft go I.

Grace? I hope you're joking. Krafty Bob had his bags packed for Hartford.

Those loyal to the Chargers laundry will find themselves driving about the same distance that the (remaining) Pats fan base would have found itself driving to Hartford.

 

[Deus Irae]

But sad for loyal San Diego fans...

Yeah, they're both gonna be pissed.

 

[Deus Irae]

I agree.

The downside, of course, is that now they don't have an NFL franchise.

It's San Diego. They don't need an NFL franchise.

 

[Bill Lee]

Very interesting read:

The Chargers' pending move to L.A. exposes the NFL's truth when it comes to fans | FOX Sports

The NFL really doesn’t need people in the stands for anything but optics. Fan money doesn’t add up, corporate dollars do — and with the way the NFL and its teams do business, that corporate cash is going to be rolling in for decades.

So as long as millions of people tune into games every Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday, the NFL and its teams will continue to see multi-billion-dollar team values annually increase by an average of 10 percent.

Oh, and if you want to pay $100 to sit and watch just one game for three-and-a-half hours, you can do that too — the NFL certainly isn’t averse to taking your pocket change. Buy a sweatshirt while you’re at it.

The article made the point that the value of the 49ers doubled since they opened their stadium. They basically they got the stadium for free after all the PSLs and the corporate boxes were sold. The Chargers have it even better because they're not even having to build the stadium and they get to sell all the PSLs and boxes all over again. You can say the LA market can't support two teams, but it's twice as big a market as SD and much bigger in terms of corporations.

 

[AtomicDawg]

 

[Jackson 2]

Grace? I hope you're joking. Krafty Bob had his bags packed for Hartford.

Those loyal to the Chargers laundry will find themselves driving about the same distance that the (remaining) Pats fan base would have found itself driving to Hartford.

He wasn't going to Hartford. It was a power play to get the Mass legislature to pony up for a stadium. The legislature, wisely, told him " see ya." When push came to shove, he told CT no thanks (and CT was going to build it for him) and stayed here and built his own. He played CT like a bass fiddle. I don't blame Kraft for trying, but MA played it smartly.

 

[Patjew]

Grace? I hope you're joking. Krafty Bob had his bags packed for Hartford.

Those loyal to the Chargers laundry will find themselves driving about the same distance that the (remaining) Pats fan base would have found itself driving to Hartford.

I don't give a **** about Hartford, which is still in New England. I care about St. Louis.

If it weren't for Kraft the Pats would have been the St. Louis Stallions twenty years ago.

So no, I'm not joking.

 

[PatsPwn44]

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

As a patriots fan when I was a kid, my parents bought me a Connecticut Patriots sweatshirt, licensed by the NFL. Too bad it went missing. I doubt it would be worth anything, but the hilarity of wearing it would be great. I would just need to lose a few lbs to do so.

 

[Brady_to_Moss]

Twitter wins today

 

[Bill Lee]

I don't give a **** about Hartford, which is still in New England. I care about St. Louis.

If it weren't for Kraft the Pats would have been the St. Louis Stallions twenty years ago.

So no, I'm not joking.

Fair enough, it's quite reasonable to feel that his role in keeping the Pats in NE is paramount.

In my mind, he's sullied himself so much since then that I have to question the whole narrative that he did it because he was a season ticket holder, yada yada. Bob does what's best for Bob. Luckily for us, that involved keeping the team in New England.

 

[Patjew]

Fair enough, it's quite reasonable to feel that his role in keeping the Pats in NE is paramount.

In my mind, he's sullied himself so much since then that I have to question the whole narrative that he did it because he was a season ticket holder, yada yada. Bob does what's best for Bob. Luckily for us, that involved keeping the team in New England.

I understand where you're coming from. Certainly Kraft has done things I don't like AT ALL. On the other hand I recognize that almost no one is pure good or evil, right or wrong, and in this case I think Kraft really did what was best for the region and took a big risk keeping the team in N.E. He could have walked away in the early 90s with $75 million for doing nothing but letting the team leave. And though that amount seems like a joke now, back then there weren't many people willing to cough that up for the joke of the franchise that the 1-15 Pats were.

Anyway, the point is... the Chargers' new logo SUCKS.

 

[woolster22]

Twitter wins today

Does the NFL understand it has been screwing up so bad that maligned nhl and mlb teams are publicly humiliating them? That back and forth is great btw, if only "The 32" had a semblance of clue as to the optics with all this crap, and what long time fans think of the state of the league. The NFL is rapidly becoming a caricature of its older, glorious self.

 

[Pessimistic Pete]

Is it just me or did the media not act nearly as outraged when the Rams moved to LA?

Both are ****ed up, but the Rams moved there and the entire media just acted like it was no big deal at all and hardly expressed concern for the fans of St. Louis.

 

[SVN]

Very interesting read:

The Chargers' pending move to L.A. exposes the NFL's truth when it comes to fans | FOX Sports



The article made the point that the value of the 49ers doubled since they opened their stadium. They basically they got the stadium for free after all the PSLs and the corporate boxes were sold. The Chargers have it even better because they're not even having to build the stadium and they get to sell all the PSLs and boxes all over again. You can say the LA market can't support two teams, but it's twice as big a market as SD and much bigger in terms of corporations.

Well, partially true about Levi's but the york's cheaped out on the locals when they let harbaugh go .It wouldve been easy to sell PSL when your team just went to the SB.