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NFL Possibly considering forcing Chargers to Move Back to San Diego?
Sites low attendance in soccer Stadium so far. Duh. Yes, nice distraction as we come into town.
https://www.yahoo.com/sports/nfl-rep...010040080.html Could the NFL really send the Chargers back to San Diego? It's something being discussed, according to longtime NFL reporter Don Banks. The former Sports Illustrated reporter, who has worked for NFL Media and currently writes for The Athletic, told a San Diego radio station on Thursday the NFL never wanted to lose San Diego as a market and could force Chargers owner Dean Spanos to take the team back. "I have been painted a picture from people I’ve talked to that the league was sympathetic … to Dean Spanos’ plight," Banks told The Mighty 1090. "Feels like he had been a ‘league guy’ feels like he had waited kind of his turn on the relocation front, thought he had the votes the year before — Jerry Jones and Stan Kroenke pretty much outmaneuvered Dean and Mark Davis with the Raiders to be the first in line for LA. So it was almost as if this was a bit of a make up. "There are people in the league — including the commissioner — they did not want to see San Diego forsaken. They would rather there be a team in San Diego. If there’s anything viable that they could find to put the league back in to San Diego, I think they will be in that camp strongly." The Chargers failed to sell out their temporary home, the 27,000-seat StubHub Center, in their home opener last Sunday. Banks wrote at The Athletic the NFL is shocked by how quickly things have gone south for the Chargers in L.A. As the Rams struggle to draw fans to the L.A. Coliseum, Banks said the NFL does not want the bad "optics" of empty stadiums for three years before the Rams and Chargers are scheduled to move into a new Inglewood stadium in 2020. |
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10-01-2017, 09:06 PM | #106 |
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Could move them to Richmond, VA but Synder would try and block it. Richmond is a decent size metro area and the Hampton Roads metro area is in easy driving distance.
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10-01-2017, 09:07 PM | #107 |
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Owners gonna sell soon, they may end up back in SD
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10-01-2017, 09:08 PM | #108 |
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Canada? It would be competing with hockey but I think it would do well there. Better than LA/SD.
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10-01-2017, 09:14 PM | #109 |
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10-01-2017, 09:34 PM | #110 | |
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10-01-2017, 10:29 PM | #111 | |
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The raiders made more since in LA. Hell the rams make good sense too seeing as how they played there before moving to st. Louis. The chargers are jist unnatural there.i dont see why they left san diego. Maybe itll get better once the stadium is built. But with all thefans of the raiders, 49ers, ect i dont see LLA being that viable for them. |
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10-01-2017, 11:06 PM | #112 |
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They should either go back or move to a football hungry market. LA barely likes football enough for 1 team.
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10-02-2017, 06:39 AM | #113 |
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10-02-2017, 11:42 AM | #115 | |
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I'm sure that huge fan base they cultivated 57 years ago was very loyal and extremely happy to have them back in LA this year. |
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10-02-2017, 12:57 PM | #116 |
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Instead of sharing a stadium in LA, they should move Vegas and share a stadium with the Faiders.
I mean, as long as you are counting on the other teams fans to fill seats... The only time it wouldn't sell out is when the Chargers and Faiders played each other. |
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10-02-2017, 12:59 PM | #117 |
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I don't see why they don't move to St Louis. Does St Louis not curr if they have a team or not? We could have the Governor's Cup twice a year and actually have a rivalry instead of pretend.
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10-17-2018, 10:07 AM | #118 |
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10-17-2018, 10:10 AM | #119 |
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They should definitely consider moving back to San Diego. It would also be cool if they moved to St. Louis and created a divisional in-state rivalry.
Mexico City or Vancouver would be interesting, too. Just get out of LA, ya dummies! |
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10-17-2018, 10:12 AM | #120 | |
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