Los Angeles 2024 chairman Casey Wasserman claimed the Chargers’ move is a sign the city offers strong commercial and sporting opportunities.
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“LA is a remarkable place, and while we played our first season there in 1960 and have had fans there ever since, our entire organization knows that we have a tremendous amount of work to do”, Spanos wrote.
That didn’t make it any easier Thursday, when the San Diego Chargers ceased to exist after 56 seasons. But there’s always the television that can still lead you to Philip Rivers, Antonio Gates and the rest of the players that became your favorites over the years.
My take: It will be important for Lynn to create an environment of unity and a sense of team as the franchise transitions from San Diego to Los Angeles.
Even among die-hard National Football League fans, the Chargers will be at least a distant third-place team in their two-team market next fall.
And Lynn said he was eager for the challenge ahead later this year: “I want to make sure San Diego fans know how much we love San Diego, how grateful we are and how many great memories we have”.
The Chargers will play the 2017 and ’18 seasons at StubHub Center, the 30,000-capacity home of soccer’s Los Angeles Galaxy, before moving to Inglewood, California, to share a massive new stadium with the Rams. “But today, we turn the page and begin an exciting new era as the Los Angeles Chargers”.
Everything he could to fleece the people of San Diego.
“San Diego will get a team back”, he said.
If his proud declaration to “Fight for L.A.” goes anything like his pathetic fight for a way in San Diego, the Rams have nothing to worry about. Teams were spread more evenly across the country, but now there are two clear epicenters in LA and NY. “I think within the next three to five years, you will see someone making a move”. The NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and some of the owners were against this move, but the league did not exactly help the Chargers stay either. “We have a lot of Clippers fans, and there’s a lot of Lakers fans”.
So if that is what they’re doing: For the record I think the second logo above is actually pretty killer.
So, too, does the fact the Chargers will be playing virtually rent-free in a stadium fronted by Rams’ owner Stan Kroenke.
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“I practiced against him for four years and he was never ‘live, ‘” Emanuel said, referring to a no-tackling policy of Bison quarterbacks in practice. We must get back to winning.
