Posted on 01/16/2017 10:44:01 AM PST by ColdOne
The Rams returned to L.A. last year, and the Chargers CEO Dean Spanos confirmed last Thursday that his team is also moving back. Spanos' decision comes after years of haggling with the city of San Diego to secure tax money to build a new stadium, but the request did not receive public support. In November, voters went to the poll and rejected the measure asking for $1.15 billion in taxpayer funding for a new stadium and convention center annex in San Diego, 57 percent to 43 percent.
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San Antonio. The Alamo Done. Remember, they made a serious run at a couple of teams.
How about the Tijuana Chargers?
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Ike. It was 1960, the first year of the AFL. They moved to San Diego in 1961 after just one year.
How about the Baja Humbugs?
This also ruins a traditional divisional alignment that goes back to before the AFL-NFL merger. Before expansion, the AFL West was Denver, Kansas City, Oakland, and San Diego — which have comprised the AFC West now for a number of years. Then Spanos ruined that.
There are still two divisions in the NFC that reflect pre-merger groupings: The NFC East (Dallas, New York, Philadelphia, Washington) and the NFC North (the alignment of the pre-merger NFL Central — Chicago, Detroit, Green Bay, Minnesota.)
Well, his daddy was a liberal, Rockefeller Republican Congressman and Senator.
His father in law served in 41’s Cabinet, BTW.
Hillsdale, Michigan. The Hillsdale College teams are already called the Chargers. They’d fit right in.
Historically, LA has not been able to support one NFL team. Why does this putz think it can now support two?
As a opposite, the bulk of the funding for AT&T Stadium in Arlington, TX, aka Jerryworld, was put up by Jerry Jones. There were some city sales tax dollars, but it was eclipsed by Jerry’s investment, same thing that Arlington did for the Texas Rangers.
With SD, the taxpayers are already facing OMG taxes with Gov Moonbeam pushing for more and more taxes.
Yep, spanos is delusional if he thinks he will get fan base in Los Angeles.
It was in the early 90’s and the Oakland A’ s owner even transferred his rights to the San Jose area to the Giants to help out. Now the Giants are trying to screw the A’s over on that front. But I think the A’s should stay in Oakland.
There is only one team in New York state and it’s the Buffalo Bills.
St Louis officials are toying with the idea of building a new stadium—for professional soccer. They’ve pretty much admitted that a new NFL franchise is just beyond them. They built the TWA/Jones Dome on spec, hoping to lure an NFL team. They got the Rams, had a few good years and then started to slide. Unfortunately for StL, the lease agreement allowed the Rams to void the lease if the Dome wasn’t in the top 20% of league stadiums. More and more luxury skyboxes, etc. etc. St Louis and Missouri taxpayers (like SD taxpayers) finally said “Enough!”. That didn’t stop the politicians from trying to get around voters’ will, but the effort failed and the Rams left.
I don’t think St Louis misses the Rams as much as SD will miss the Chargers. SD was a football town with Charger emblems everywhere you look, whereas StL is a baseball town.
I can remember a similar situation (concerning MLB) with the Chicago White Sox. If my memory serves me properly, that team threatened to move to Florida if a replacement for old Comiskey Park was not built and other issues addressed. That I guess is one main reason why the old park was torn down and replaced by the current one and also MLB expanding to Miami and Tampa Bay when they did.
The ballpark in Frisco is beautiful and paid for by ownership. MLB. Nobody ever mentions that. They make billions and make taxpayers pay. Yeah moonbean has helped his ilk by making sure taxpayers pay for his deals.
I see what you did there...
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