Los Angeles Chargers in 2017
@Deepizzaguy (122379)
Lake Charles, Louisiana
January 12, 2017 6:02pm CST
San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos on Thursday made an announcement that has shocked the fans of the football team when he broke the news he is moving the team he owns to Los Angeles California.
The Los Angeles Chargers will return to their original home since 1960 when they played one season before moving to San Diego California in 1961.
The main reason the San Diego Chargers are bolting to Los Angeles (pun intended) was that the citizens of San Diego voted down a proposal to help finance a new football stadium to replace Qualcomm Stadium in the November elections.
The likely stadium that the Los Angeles Chargers will be playing their home football games will be the StubHub Center in Los Angeles until the new stadium that both the Chargers and Los Angeles Rams will share starting in 2019.
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@teamfreak16 (43685)
• Denver, Colorado
13 Jan 17
I guess we won't be hearing the "San DIego Super Chargers" song anymore.
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
13 Jan 17
I am afraid not. I understand that Dean Spanos is being billed as the main villain in San Diego after the news broke out today by Chargers fans.
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@JohnRoberts (109841)
• Los Angeles, California
13 Jan 17
I am proposing to trade both the Rams and Chargers to Oakland to bring back the Raiders, the only team to bring LA a Super Bowl win.
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
13 Jan 17
@JohnRoberts I like the sound of that name Los Angeles Raiders.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
13 Jan 17
I am on the side of the taxpayers of San Diego. Why should the taxpayers foot the bill for a new stadium so a billionaire owner and his millionaire players can have a newer place to play? If it were up to me, municipalities would be banned from spending one tax dollar on facilities for professional sports teams unless, like the Green Bay Packers, the team was community owned.
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@DWDavis (25797)
• United States
13 Jan 17
@Deepizzaguy When pro teams threaten to move if the taxpayers don't ante up, it is akin to blackmail.
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
13 Jan 17
@DWDavis That what ticks me off. The owners of the pro football teams think the fans of the teams they own have money growing from our trees in our backyard.
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
13 Jan 17
I agree with you on this matter. The talking heads at Fox Sports 1 are saying that the tax rate in California is very high for the people in San Diego to be taxed more just to build a new stadium for Dean Spanos who can use his money to build his own stadium.
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