Boss_Hogg Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/chargers/sd-sp-chargers-move-possible-20170111-story.html Chairman Dean Spanos has called an 8 a.m. staff meeting for Thursday, at which time he is expected to inform his employees that the franchise is moving from San Diego, its home of 56 years, to Los Angeles. A spokesman for Mayor Mayor Kevin Faulconer had no word from the team about a move. “The Chargers have not contacted the city,” spokesman Matt Awbrey said in an email Wednesday night. The Chargers have been seeking a new stadium in San Diego for more than 15 years, and a year ago were given a deadline of Jan. 15 to move to a stadium the Rams are building in Inglewood. Earlier Wednesday, the NFL extended that deadline by two days, to Tuesday. The lack of a modern football stadium in San Diego — and the additional revenues generated by such elaborate facilities — prompted the departure of the team, which has been one of the region’s most popular and recognizable civic institutions. The Chargers have agreed to become tenants in a $2.66 billion stadium Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke is building in Inglewood. It has not been announced where the Chargers would play before that stadium opens in 2019, but most speculation has been it will be at StubHub Center in Carson, which seats fewer than 30,000. Chargers plan to play in 30,000-seat StubHub Center for next two seasons http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/chargers/2017/01/12/chargers-stubhub-center-los-angeles-relocation-mls-la-galaxy/96479520/ SAN DIEGO – As part of their relocation plan for Los Angeles, the San Diego Chargers have an agreement to play at the StubHub Center in nearby Carson for the next two seasons before moving into their permanent new home in Inglewood with the Los Angeles Rams, a person with knowledge of the situation told USA TODAY Sports late Wednesday. The StubHub Center is a soccer stadium used by the Los Angeles Galaxy of the MLS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 New Logo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rictus58 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I'm happy SD didn't cave to the pressure to fund a stadium for a team worth nearly $1B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobandweave Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 Horrible rip off logo from the Dodgers. Will be happy every time those guys lose. Feel bad for the fans in San Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
srtman04 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 WHY???? Why is everyone moving to LA of all places?? Just doesn't make any sense.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobandweave Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 5 Decades flushed down the drain for greed. **** them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 I wouldn't say it was just greed. The city wouldn't give them a stadium complex, and Qualcomm is incredibly dated. It makes sense from a business perspective. That being said, since the Skins play both the Rams and Chargers next year in LA, and I'm only an hour away, I'll be at both games. Hell yeah. 12 minutes ago, srtman04 said: WHY???? Why is everyone moving to LA of all places?? Just doesn't make any sense.... Uh, LA is a pretty big market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busch1724 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 8 minutes ago, ExoDus84 said: I wouldn't say it was just greed. The city wouldn't give them a stadium complex, and Qualcomm is incredibly dated. It makes sense from a business perspective. That being said, since the Skins play both the Rams and Chargers next year in LA, and I'm only an hour away, I'll be at both games. Hell yeah. Uh, LA is a pretty big market. With the current team that played there last year playing to empty seats halfway through the year when the team was not out of the hunt yet. I just don't get why these rich guys think it will be any different than the last time there were two teams in town? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 3 minutes ago, Busch1724 said: With the current team that played there last year playing to empty seats halfway through the year when the team was not out of the hunt yet. I just don't get why these rich guys think it will be any different than the last time there were two teams in town? There's more revenue to be generated with these stadium complexes now. Not just sponsorships and licensing, but the teams can rent and lease out facilities to other teams in the offseason, bring in a bunch of businesses and tenants for additional revenue, get tax breaks for creating a certain amount of new jobs, etc. Even if their attendance isn't vastly superior to what it was in St. Louis/San Diego, the team could still make more money. There are still a lot of Rams fans in LA. As for fan excitement, winning cures everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onedrop Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 38 minutes ago, srtman04 said: WHY???? Why is everyone moving to LA of all places?? Just doesn't make any sense.... LA seems to be the easy place to move to yet very hard to stay in. otherwise that city wouldnt be the revolving door location of the NFL. id bet that one of the two teams is gone within 10 years and the other before 20. props to SD for realizing that its kind of messed up that the tax exempt, for (HUGE) profit NFL expects the people that DO pay taxes to foot the bill for a space to spend even more of their hard earned money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooleyfan1993 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 that new logo is such a ripoff of the dodgers logo looks like we'll be playing in LA twice next season! although in the twitter thread I saw a tweet that theres a rumor that one of those games could go international. would that be a game in mexico city on MNF? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carex Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 the chargers uniforms are awesome, they are one of the last teams in the NFL that needs any sort of rebranding Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boss_Hogg Posted January 12, 2017 Author Share Posted January 12, 2017 Can confirm the #Chargers will consider rebranding. Won't happen in time for 2017 - if at all - but absolutely under consideration Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Busch1724 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 1 hour ago, ExoDus84 said: There's more revenue to be generated with these stadium complexes now. Not just sponsorships and licensing, but the teams can rent and lease out facilities to other teams in the offseason, bring in a bunch of businesses and tenants for additional revenue, get tax breaks for creating a certain amount of new jobs, etc. Even if their attendance isn't vastly superior to what it was in St. Louis/San Diego, the team could still make more money. There are still a lot of Rams fans in LA. As for fan excitement, winning cures everything. Thing is the teams don't own the stadium...so who gets the revenue. Sure winning cures everything, but just don't get how they'll support two teams long term short of more corporate welfare. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ExoDus84 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 31 minutes ago, Busch1724 said: Thing is the teams don't own the stadium...so who gets the revenue. Huh? Owners do own the stadiums they build. They build it with private and public money, but they do own them. Who gets the money? The team does. Ticket sales, concessions, sponsorships, etc., all feeds into a teams revenue pool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 As a LA resident, this sucks so bad. More people, more traffic. Disgusting. Nobody wants the ****ing Chargers here. They are going to playing their first two seasons in Carson at Stub Hub center which is where the LA Galaxy play. That's like 25,000 seat stadium. It's a few miles from my house. San Diego is a great town (I like it more than LA) and deserves a team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooleyfan1993 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 14 minutes ago, abdcskins said: As a LA resident, this sucks so bad. More people, more traffic. Disgusting. Nobody wants the ****ing Chargers here. They are going to playing their first two seasons in Carson at Stub Hub center which is where the LA Galaxy play. That's like 25,000 seat stadium. It's a few miles from my house. San Diego is a great town (I like it more than LA) and deserves a team. I thought they were supposed to play at the LA Coliseum with the rams. it's just the new stadium they'd be sharing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 1 minute ago, Cooleyfan1993 said: I thought they were supposed to play at the LA Coliseum with the rams. it's just the new stadium they'd be sharing? Yeah just the new stadium. That will start in 2019. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooleyfan1993 Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 13 minutes ago, abdcskins said: Yeah just the new stadium. That will start in 2019. Ah ok. So two seasons in a 25,000 seat stadium? Isn't that a little bit small for an NFL game? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hail2skins Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 That 30000 seat stadium thing is interesting. Heck, the Vikings had to play in a college stadium for 2 years, but I think that was 50K. I'd the Raiders move to Vegas is approved, why couldn't they move to Vegas right away and play at Boyd Stadium, which at least seats more than 30K. Another interesting thing is that the Skins will play on the road against the Chargers next year, as well as the Rams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 2 hours ago, Cooleyfan1993 said: Ah ok. So two seasons in a 25,000 seat stadium? Isn't that a little bit small for an NFL game? Extremely small, smallest in the history of the NFL. I just looked it up and it's actually 27,000 - still small as hell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Sinister Posted January 12, 2017 Share Posted January 12, 2017 3 hours ago, abdcskins said: As a LA resident, this sucks so bad. More people, more traffic. Disgusting. Nobody wants the ****ing Chargers here. They are going to playing their first two seasons in Carson at Stub Hub center which is where the LA Galaxy play. That's like 25,000 seat stadium. It's a few miles from my house. San Diego is a great town (I like it more than LA) and deserves a team. So if they wanted it so bad then they should've ponied up. I don't like the idea of these punk rich ass owners strongarming cities for these ridiculous spaceship like football stadiums, but at the same time, if they leave, I really wouldn't give a damn. Money is the bottom line end all be all. Nothing else matters Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
88Comrade2000 Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 7 hours ago, Boss_Hogg said: New Logo... The Logo is ugly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onedrop Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 7 hours ago, Boss_Hogg said: Can confirm the #Chargers will consider rebranding. Won't happen in time for 2017 - if at all - but absolutely under consideration the new Los Angeles OVER Chargers? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wildbunny Posted January 13, 2017 Share Posted January 13, 2017 Great stuff from Philip Rivers regarding the move. Really classy from him. http://www.nfl.com/news/story/0ap3000000773666/article/philip-rivers-im-a-little-numb-about-chargers-moving Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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