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Posted on 01/29/2016 10:43:55 AM PST by EveningStar
Full title: The Los Angeles Chargers of Santa Ana? Sort of. Team acquires land for training, offices as first step.
The National Football League franchise took another step closer to moving from San Diego to Los Angeles on Thursday by announcing it has acquired land and office space in Santa Ana. The idea is that the land could become home to the Chargers' team operations and training facility.
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The Chargers also deleted “San Diego” from social media sites, referring to themselves as just “Chargers” now.
The best guess is that they are moving to LA.
But you wonder, will they always be the “other” team in LA??
Time will tell.
Do they intend to use the Big A as their interim home? (The Rams played there once.)
I’m guessing that they’ll join the Rams in the crappy Coliseum until the new home is ready.
For the amount of money it would take to get Angel’s Stadium to convert to a dual use facility again, it would be money better spent either sharing the colosseum or bribing home owners near the Rose Bowl.
Los Angelinos never have been great football fans.
Angel Stadium is still used occasionally for high school games. It’s capacity for football would be in the 40000 seat range and a lot of the seats have obstructed views, especially along the third base side where the view would be blocked by people on the field. That probably will not be acceptable for a NFL team.
Oh well.....now I have to pick a new fav team.
Los Angelinos never have been great football fans.
LOL!...You know very little of football history in SoCal...at one time from HS to Collage to Pro... SoCal at one time time rival anything you see in Texas...
HS CIF championships games would fill the Coliseum....late 1960’s El Rancho and St Paul...Go Dons!
USC vs UCLA....
the Rose Bowl ..the original and first Bowl game
the Coliseum... fill for the USFL in the middle of summer?
Bingo. And except for the Lakers, they're not very good sports fans at all. They've treated the Dodgers, Angels, Ducks, Kings, and Clippers like ****, all while the owners rake in the dough.
The Spanos Family Crime Syndicate could have had a new stadium in San Diego if they had bothered to put a good product on the field...as the Padres did to get their new stadium. Now that Alex is 92 and in advanced dementia, his worthless, money-grubbing son Dean is in charge, and he could care less about America's Finest City. After scores of millions of taxpayers dollars were spent to expand Qualcomm/Jack Murphy stadium multiple times, plus a sweetheart lease deal that required the city to use more taxpayer funds to buy unsold tickets at full price, the Spanos' are ******* the fans in the ***.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The Los Angeles Mediocres can go suck and get booed by the thousands of Raiders fans in the City of Angels.
Not to mention the lingerie team...
Well, PRO-football hasn't been the success that college football has been. I guess I should have been CRYSTAL clear or you would ASSUME that I didn't know what I was talking about. All those teams you mentioned were COLLEGE games, not PRO games.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_National_Football_League_in_Los_Angeles
There is NO money suck like a pro-football team. The zillion dollar stadium the city tax payers get to build gets to host all of EIGHT home games, more with pre/post games, if the teams win.
From Wikipedia: The National Football League regular season begins the weekend after Labor Day in early September and ends in December or early January. It consists of 256 games total in the league, where each team plays 16 games during a 17-week period.
That would be eight home games and eight away games.
At least baseball has 180 games, 90 at home. THAT is also a money suck but not such a large one.
And yes, I know, I know. There are always promises of how MANY other entertainments will go on in said stadium, but THEY don't draw like football games. Nothing is sadder than having a "gig" in a half empty stadium.
Lol right back to 2fat.
The Spanos Family Crime Syndicate could have had a new stadium in San Diego if they had bothered to put a good product on the field...as the Padres did to get their new stadium. Now that Alex is 92 and in advanced dementia, his worthless, money-grubbing son Dean is in charge, and he could care less about America's Finest City. After scores of millions of taxpayers dollars were spent to expand Qualcomm/Jack Murphy stadium multiple times, plus a sweetheart lease deal that required the city to use more taxpayer funds to buy unsold tickets at full price, the Spanos' are ******* the fans in the ***.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. The Los Angeles Mediocres can go suck and get booed by the thousands of Raiders fans in the City of Angels.
That is a shame.
Lol. That reminds me of when the great Joe Namath posed in PANTY HOSE, lying in a provacative side-lying-down pose.
It was hysterical.
Only HE could get away with that.
Are they going to keep the name?
Well, PRO-football hasn’t been the success
AGAIN LOL!...on what planet..The Rams came to LA in 46...the first NFL team on the west coast...they were huge. ...they set NFL the attendance record in 57 that was not broken till 2006...that 49 years....
the Charger started in LA
the Raiders and Rams both played in SoCal from 82 to 95....one at the Coliseum Anaheim Stadium those two stadium are 32 miles apart...so two NFL teams in the greater LA area at the same time....other then NY... I can think of no other metro area in the US that supported two NFL teams at the same time
And both left in 95...and the reason was politics and money about new stadiums and where that be located
Look i followed pro football the Rams intently most of my life until they move down... my family was involved with the Rams first moved to LA....
The problem with pro football since the mid 90’s in So California has been politics politics politics and it always has been politics
LA politics is some of the most corrupt in the nation you just don’t know it and it and power play politics that have driven teams out and kept teams out
I agree
So Cal is or was a good sports area....
In the greator LA metro area (if you include Orange County)
You at one time had:
Two NFL teams Rams and Raiders
Two MLB teams Dodgers and Angels
Two NBA teams Lakers and Clippers
Two NHL teams Kings and Ducks
That’s a lot of ProSport teams at one time for one area
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