[Snickering Hound]

[C19fan]

LOL!!!! Spanos paid a franchise move fee of $500 MM. You are telling me he could not build a useful, maybe not full state of the art, stadium for that amount of money in the SD area???

[JohnyBoy]

How about they ship anyone disrespecting America out of the league?

[Alberta's Child]

LMAO. California has an economy that is larger than most countries in this world, but they can't keep a franchise in place in one of the most lucrative professional sports leagues in the world?

I have a better idea. Move the 49ers to Istanbul and the Chargers to Baghdad. That'll do wonders for attendance.

[Huskrrrr]

Rearranging the deck chairs?

[Seaplaner]

I would like to see the Chargers return to their San Diego roots. A new stadium might help them out quite a bit.

[blueunicorn6]

It usually takes at least four times the effort, time and resources to build an organization back up as it did to destroy it.

[Defiant]

What if we don’t want them back?

[KC_Lion]

Gotta recycle my own joke.

All this backtracking is how The Chargers stay in shape.

[thorvaldr]

Did not know they left. Don’t care they are coming back. Protest MY national anthem anywhere you want, you damn commies. #boycottnfl

[dfwgator]

Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke pretty much outmaneuvered Dean and Mark Davis with the Raiders to be the first in line for LA. So it was almost as if this was a bit of a make up.

Jerry also wanted to make sure they didn't move to Austin/San Antonio.

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[Obadiah]

In management circles this type of action or consideration is known as pushing the PANIC BUTTON!!!!

[Mr. Jeeves]

I don’t know - “Compton Chargers” has a nice ring to it, and decorating StubHub Center in Crip colors would be perfectly in keeping with the NFL’s new social agenda. :)

[Billthedrill]

This one isn't hard to understand. San Diego voters turned down a massively expensive playpen and the owner took off in a snit. The long-suffering Charger fans are furious and everybody in LA who wanted to see this happen is currently attending their games, which amounts to a dozen or so. What did they expect?

[Vic S]

What they really need is a new field goal kicker.

[Red Badger]

LA is just not a football town.

That’s why the Chargers left, The Rams left, The Raiders left.

The Chargers and Rams came back, but LA hasn’t changed.

The Raiders are moving to Las Vegas, getting out of Oakland.

The 49ers has so few show up at their games the cameras won’t show the crowds.

Perhaps it’s CALIFORNIA is really not a football state...............

[Finalapproach29er]

San Diego fans should tell em to stick it.

[SDShack]

Every Charger fan knew the team would implode in LA. The game last week at the StubHub Soccer Stadium that only seats 30M had at least 25% of the fans in attendance supporting Miami. Wait till this Sunday. I predict at least 50% of the fans will be KC fans. The same will happen with the Broncos. And the Raiders, it will be 90%+ Raider fans in the Charger Stadium. Hell, it was about 75% Raider fans at Qualcomm (old Charger SD home) last year.
Spanos has killed his franchise. Best thing for everyone would be for Spanos to sell the team and let a real owner rebuild the franchise back in SD in a stadium the new owner and NFL pays for. SD voters have shown time after time that they will not be extorted by NFL billionaires to use taxpayer money to fund a stadium. Build it yourself NFL, or let the Charger franchise die in LA.
This is just a harbinger of the decline of the NFL. Spoiled millionaire players that can’t perform on the field except to do celebrations or protests. Coaches that can’t coach. Players that can’t block, tackle, catch or throw passes. Announcers and networks that sermonize liberal talking points constantly. Owners that rape fans and taxpayers constantly. I’ve been an NFL fan for almost 50 years, but the last few years I could care less and would rather watch college games. At least those kids and coaches show some love for the game.

[Rebelbase]

It’s like the Chargers are the red headed step children of the NFL.

[Buckeye McFrog]

At this point why don’t they just build 50,000 seat stadiums on wheels?