cheesemoney

Seriously, you guys remember in Major League when they hired the manager of the Mud Hens to coach at the major league level? Its obvious to me that the Charger's want out of San Diego, they're doing everything to move to LA, and will probably do it in 2008. So are they trying to screw up on purpose to move the date up?

Christ I'm glad I'm not a Charger's fan but I do feel sorry for the seven on 'em.

Peetster

Did they move LA to Florida while I wasn't watching?

thespian86

Hahahaha, smart ass

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Peryn

Yes, the Chargers do want out of San Diego, and with the dumbass decisions our city counsil has made in the past, the teams performance, cost, etc. as far as im concerned L.A. can have em.

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JoeyB

I understand the financial aspects of life in the NFL, but have you been to San Diego? That place is gorgeous!! Why does everyone want to avoid SD???

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djtestudo

Because it's so gorgeous. There is so much OTHER stuff to do that when the team's bad, you can go to the beach, or play golf, or visit the mountains, or a thousand other things. In a place like Green Bay, or Pittsburgh, there isn't that much else to do in the fall and winter other then watch football.

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crow_daw

Well, Maxim printed two seasons ago that the NFL knew that not having a professional football team in Los Angeles was preposterous, and that San Diego would be that team. So, once again, Maxim was correct it seems. But I'm a member of the Raider Nation, so personally, I don't really care, just thought I'd share the Maxim story.

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djtestudo

Technically, it's not preposterous. Because of there not being a team in LA, they get a guarenteed game every week on TV. If they got a team, and LA fans acted like they have historically, they wouldn't necessarally even get any game due to the league blackout rules.

That's why the league hasn't pushed harder for a team, and why there wasn't much effort to quell the fighting among ownership groups when LA lost to Houston for the expansion team a few years back. They really want the second-biggest market in the country to always have games on, so they get that extra revenue.

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goddfather40

As a person living in the LA area, I can tell you that it would be tough for an existing team to get any following here. Everyone has either already switched allegiance to another team or are still Raider fans. Raider fans by far are most prevalent here in LA and I can't see many cheering for the Chargers, in fact it would be like adding one more home game to the Raiders schedule. On the down side, a lot of people like me find it hard to pick a favorite team, even though I am still a football fan.

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Peryn

Yeah, LA wouldn't work out for the Chargers. A) cause they suck. And B) the Raiders. San Diego is absolutely a Raider-hating town. No question about it. And it is my understanding that most of LA still hates the chargers.

Or you could have a city council with a ticket garauntee. While back, decided to buy out all the unsold tickets so that the games would be televised. Since they were all on TV, they seemed surprised when people stopped showing up to the games to watch our home team lose game after game.


San Diego is a nice place and all, but Sports have never been our strongpoints.

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Mondak

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out of town Chargers.

They don't deserve their fans. There are a lot of Charger fans out here (I am not one of them) who are loyal, knowledgeable and passionite. They are good fans that have not had a decent reason to cheer for years. The organization is a piece of driftwood. Move to LA already and get over it.

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SAM821

Im confused, so are they moving to Los Angeles, or Florida???

alot of posts are talking about them moving to Los Angeles (which is reasonable, considering that LA wants a team since the raiders left)

but to move to Florida??? where in the hell would they go? Miami WILL NOT have two NFL teams, tampa bay is covered, and so is Jacksonville... Only reasonable area would be Orlando, which would never happen either...

Im confused...

djtestudo

He either made a mistake, or is stupid. I think it's the former...

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silent_jay

Myself as a Chargers fan will be the ones getting screwed again, I got to watch 3 or 4 games last year, and now to hear they are blowing games that just pisses me off.

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crow_daw

Well, granted, I don't live in LA or even close, but I still think that you may be wrong. I'm from Tennessee, and everyone here that was a football fan already had a team a few years back. I loved the Raiders. Most everyone else was split between the Cowboys and the Niners. And I mean I knew many many fanatics. When the Titans(actually the Oilers to be technical about it) came to town, they switched sides like it was nothing. I now love the Titans as well, but I remained loyal to the Black and Silver. But I know many people who completely dissed their old teams in favor of the new gig in town.


Its just people showing regionalism.

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cheesemoney

Its a reference to "Major League", where the chick that owns the Cleveland Indians wants to move the team to Florida, and has to destroy the team by selling less than 10,000 tickets or so--therefore makes poor hiring decisions purposefully. In the movie the Indians do well and win with minor league and washed up talent--in real life the Chargers will do no such thing.

The Spanos family fucking blows.

djtestudo

My fault...I was WAY off on that one

Juuuuuuuuust a bit outside, you might say...

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