Comments on: Chargers want out in San Diego

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 16:30:04 +0000

Good point! Obviously clueless billionaire Spanos ET AL haven’t thought much about the move. They don’t care about fans showing up games, or leasing sky boxes to corporations, or selling more, higher-priced tickets, or increasing the resale value of the team.

Your “dump” insight should be sent special delivery to the Charters forthwith. THAT revelation will cause them to drop the Carson project! I suspect they will reward you well for your brilliant observation.

By: ernie ladd

ernie ladd — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 15:28:55 +0000

I only heard it once that the Carson site was an old landfill. would they have to dig it all up . could they get the proper permits and who would want to go to a garbage dump?

By: Ulysses Uhaul

Ulysses Uhaul — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 20:42:48 +0000

Hazee

My Gosh! Never had a girlfriend like that…..

What have been doing????

By: Rex the Wonder Dog!

Rex the Wonder Dog! — Sat, 21 Feb 2015 04:56:27 +0000

In reply to Richard Rider. Is there any firm indication that the NFL will LET the Chargers relocate to LA? Richard, the NFL has NO legal authority to stop ANY team from relocating to anywhere they want to relocate to. I think Al Davis proved that in spades back in 1982-85 when he sued the NFL under anti-trust law and won treble damages. Once reason is because the NFL is STILL requiring a 75% approval rate of the owners to move a team, and the courts in the Raider anti-trust litigation flat out said that was illegal. If the NFL changed that to a simply majority vote, anything over 50%, then that would be legal, but the NFL is full of knuckleheads who still cannot add 2+2= and come up with 4....

By: JHayes

JHayes — Fri, 20 Feb 2015 16:53:08 +0000

Let me get the door for you Chargers. My son and I used to love the Chargers in the 1990’s and early 2000’s. I get that you can’t make the playoffs every year, even though the team had far more than enough talent. I just got sick of all the bitching and finger pointing by the owners, managers and coaches. I have been hearing forever about the Chargers leaving San Diego. They have just become that annoying girlfriend that always wants to break up, but never actually leaves. If the Chargers want to know why they can’t fill a stadium and why there is no fan loyalty, maybe they should first look at all the loyalty they have shown their fans.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:11:16 +0000

Is it a surprise that the Charger owners are again threatening that they’ll would leave unless they get a new taxpayer-subsidized stadium? Can you IMAGINE the Chargers telling the city “Ether way, we’ll stay in San Diego”?

Is there any firm indication that the NFL will LET the Chargers relocate to LA? How and who will pay for that LA stadium?

And even if the league puts out such hints, isn’t that all part of the ongoing NFL subsidized stadium ruse that has been foisted on city after city? Is such a huge subsidy for millionaires (players) and billionaires (owners) a proper function of government? Should America’s Finest City cave to such blackmail?

If the Chargers stay and they get their new subsidized stadium (largely for fewer, higher-priced seats and opulent sky boxes), who is going to pay for that luxury when LA gets an NFL team — considering that probably 30% of current Charger sky box renters are LA-area companies that will stop doing so when LA gets a team?

THOSE are just SOME of the questions that the Charger commission should be considering.

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:44:00 +0000

Charger attack dog/attorney Mark Fabiani and his masters want to (further) rig the Charger Task Force — having already booted Steve Cushman off the panel.

The Mayor should counter that the city will not longer deal with Fabiani. Period.

But then, that might just be playing into Fabiani’s strategy of blaming the local San Diego politicians — assuming the team plans to move to LA (not that the NFL will LET them move).

By: Richard Rider

Richard Rider — Thu, 19 Feb 2015 20:40:36 +0000

If the Chargers leave, one little-understood benefit is that the “LA Chargers” would likely sell out every game (the LA Basin is SIX TIMES the size of the San Diego region market). That means “our” Charger games will no longer be blacked out.

Blackouts will get WORSE if the Chargers get their new stadium and massive ticket price increases. Too many locals simply can’t afford a $100 price INCREASE per ticket (my guess as to the average ticket price increase).

By: Dyspeptic

Dyspeptic — Wed, 18 Feb 2015 18:22:13 +0000

Frankly who cares if the Chargers leave San Diego. They can fly to the moon as far as I’m concerned. I just hope they don’t end up in Orange County, where we have enough sense not to host a subsidized, over hyped, meathead sport like American Football.

Hypothetically, if the Chargers did abscond from San Diego, wouldn’t that result in a significant drop in wife beating, illegal dog fights, concealed deadly weapons charges and homicide?