I for one, am looking forward to watching my fantasy players shit the bed at a local bar in SD, as opposed to the Chargers shitting the bed at a local bar in SD.

I can’t even count the number of people I’ve heard say “I’m so glad dad/grandpa passed away before this happened.” That’s your legacy, Dean Spanos. Making people glad their loved ones died without seeing what you did. Congratulations.

You should probably slot in the Patriots, Packers and Cowboys in above the Chargers. It’s been a long time since LA had a team.

To all the angry charger fans:

The only football development that could make me feel good in the future is this: Spanos is reviewingthe new stadium construction, falls into a barrel of boiling roofing tar and spends the decades of the rest of his life like the guy in Dalton Trumbo’s Johnny Got His Gun.

I feel like that describes a lot of fans even here, outside San Diego. They broke lifelong fans in a way I don’t think any other sports team has.

Yes. There wouldn’t be 11 men in the box licking their chops in anticipation of Todd Gurley if the Rams had Phillip Rivers at quarterback, and if the Chargers had a pass rush they might actually be decent.

Fuck this ownership team for turning my favorite all-time Chargers moment from “the SD fans’ reaction when our only Super Bowl team (no need to repeat what happened at the actual game) returned to the city after the game” into...

...”my comment about punching my monitor being immortalized in an article that shit-talks…

$400mn in public financing gets you Mercedes-Benz Stadium, which robot anus jokes aside it appears like it’s going to be incredible. That would require having a competent, well-liked, actually wealthy owner to pull off, though.

So, a mere 7 teams down out of 32, and we’ve already covered 100% of the LA market, 50% of the Bay Area (the other 50% moving to Vegas), 50% of NYC (ok, fine, Jersey), and 100% of Chicago.

And the crazy thing is that we were probably willing to take it, to the tune of $300-$400 million public dollars, but that wasn’t enough for Spanos.

I refuse to click on NFL twitter highlights. Fuck the NFL.

I just moved with my wife to San Diego, from Minneapolis, and let me just say, as a Vikings fan, I admire this city for sloughing off it’s worthless team and not giving in to a butt-fucking of a stadium deal like my former hometown did. It’s refreshing!

To be fair, I’m sure there are a lot of Miami transplants in LA who’ll turn up for the game.

Gary Plummer, former Chargers LB, tells a story about how he had been with the team for 8 years and said hello to Alex Spanos in an elevator only to have Spanos look at him perplexed and say, “Hello, son”. After 8 years of playing for the Chargers Spanos didn’t even know his name. Plummer left the next season and won…

2. The Chargers will be the fourth-most popular football team in Los Angeles.

If they just combined the two LA football teams into one (the Los Angeles Helmetswirls) would they be able to field an actual honest-to-goodness NFL caliber squad with those rosters?

The Raiders @ Chargers game last year was one of the most amazing things I had ever seen in my entire lifetime watching sports- the crowd seriously appeared to be 90% Raiders fans. It was due to a number of factors, including Chargers fans reportedly making the conscious effort to sell their tickets to Raiders fans to…

You know who else needs to get fucked? The NFL for requiring you to view their highlights on Twitter’s app/website instead of allowing embeds on other websites. Fuck off with that shit.

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