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San Dee-Ay-Go, make that Los An-Gel-Es, Super Chargers?

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by TigerVols, Dec 7, 2010.

  1. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    I'm not trying for snark.

    I think the owners thought the threat of L.A. would be enough to arm-twist the people of San Diego. They got that wrong in a huge way. And now they don't have a way out of it. (Or do they?)

    As a side note, that story about the TV ratings dropping in the Rams' first year was a gut-punch to the league. I think they're concerned and maybe even outright panicked that they are blowing their return to the second-biggest market.
     
  2. BurnsWhenIPee

    BurnsWhenIPee Well-Known Member

    Got it. There's little debating that whatever the league has touched in the last 5 (longer?) years has completely turned to shit.
     
  3. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    That's the biggest story of the NFL and LA in year one. They sold 82,000ish tickets to each game for a gawdawful team in a huge dilapidated shitbox stadium. No complaints there about attendance.

    That the NFL got better ratings last year in LA with no Rams, and that the St. Louis ratings for 2016 Rams games were better than LA had to be bruising.
     
  4. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    This. The NFL obviously thought the people of San Diego would be so concerned about losing their football team they'd happily pass a tax so a rich owner, who had already demanded and received several upgrades to the stadium as well as a sweetheart deal to buy up all unsold tickets before the blackout deadline. After all, they are the NFL and won't be effed with.

    But apparently this wasn't enough for Spanos. He wanted a new playpen, just like all the other owners. Pay for it himself? Dude, you're in California. How many times and in how many cities did the San Francisco Giants go the public route to replace Candlestick before going to the private sector, and ended up going from the outhouse to one of the top-5 ballparks in the country? It's not a coincidence the Warriors went the same route ... steps also trod by Walter O'Malley in the building of Dodger Stadium in the 60s.

    Perhaps the NFL forgot why there are no more Houston Oilers. Adams wanted so many changes to the Astrodome that taxpayers finally said enough. Yeah, they got a new team and a new stadium, and are back in the Super Bowl rotation, but they are free of the Adams (one d) family. How much of what we're seeing in San Diego is anti-Spanos, rather than anti-NFL?
     
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  5. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    For those who don't remember, several years ago, the city was responsible for buying unsold tickets to Charger games. The $ were comparatively peanuts, but it pissed off a lot of people.

    Pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Enjoy LA, Spanos, you hog.
     
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  6. JohnHammond

    JohnHammond Well-Known Member

    Any notion the NFL was desperately trying to keep the Chargers in San Diego are "alternative facts." Didn't the same outlets report the NFL gave Spano nothing at the finance committee meeting?

    Chargers' curious, shocking end
     
  7. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

  8. HanSenSE

    HanSenSE Well-Known Member

    Poor Spanos. It was everyone else's fault. Boo-effing-hoo.
     
  9. Starman

    Starman Well-Known Member

  10. LongTimeListener

    LongTimeListener Well-Known Member

    That was when they thought they would be greeted as liberators.
     
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  11. poindexter

    poindexter Well-Known Member

    Kevin Acee is the top NFL reporter at the UT, the only paper in San Diego. That story is three days old.. And there are 22 comments.

    San Diego is, as they say, over it.
     
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  12. dixiehack

    dixiehack Well-Known Member

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