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And they still won't sell it out.
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Isn't the field going to be far away from the stands since a soccer field is much wider than an NFL field?
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Blitz7x posted:gently caress That stadium has literally only twice the seating capacity as major Texas high schools
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Are there High School fields that are bigger?
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EugeneJ posted:Isn't the field going to be far away from the stands since a soccer field is much wider than an NFL field? I love the idea of the Chargers playing on an actual soccer pitch. It'll be good practice for when Spanos realizes that he's made a huge mistake and sends the team to London in 5 years.
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GOOD TIMES ON METH posted:I turned off the SD radio stream after a caller started weeping
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I still can't believe how dumb this is. It'd be one thing if the Rams had been a smashing success among fans since relocation, or if they had at least waited a few seasons to see how that played out. But what out of the available data screamed "This is a good idea" to immediately give LA two teams when the experiment with the first one isn't even over?a new study bible! posted:Maybe they wanted a logo that's crying Jordan proof. No logo is crying Jordan proof.
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Komet posted:Baltimore Colts -> Indianapolis is the gold standard for unpopular moves. "I have not any intentions of moving the goddamn team. If I did, I will tell you about it, but I'm staying here." —Robert Irsay, January 20, 1984 (they moved March 29th)
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seiferguy posted:"I have not any intentions of moving the goddamn team. If I did, I will tell you about it, but I'm staying here." That's one move that's kind of understandable though. The state was about to seize the team from him
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I wish the Chargers could fail and fold like one of those forgotten teams from the early NFL but the league sadly wouldn't let that happen.
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I think this will end up being the purest test of what the modern NFL product really means/aims to be. The NFL is feeling more and more like a fully packaged product to be consumed away from the actual field (HD broadcasts, fantasy football) than actually going to the game in person. Will it really matter if the Chargers play in a crap stadium for two years/end up playing second fiddle to the Rams in Los Angeles proper? They're still 1/32 of the NFL itself. (Note: I don't necessarily believe that this is unimportant, but this seems to be the hypothesis that will be tested)
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Ehud posted:idgi guys on san diego radio were joking about making the logo say lame, so i obliged
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illcendiary posted:I think this will end up being the purest test of what the modern NFL product really means/aims to be. The NFL is feeling more and more like a fully packaged product to be consumed away from the actual field (HD broadcasts, fantasy football) than actually going to the game in person. Will it really matter if the Chargers play in a crap stadium for two years/end up playing second fiddle to the Rams in Los Angeles proper? They're still 1/32 of the NFL itself. (Note: I don't necessarily believe that this is unimportant, but this seems to be the hypothesis that will be tested) Won't the owners be pissed because the small capacity means less revenue to share
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Intruder posted:That's one move that's kind of understandable though. The state was about to seize the team from him Yeah, true. Still, the fact that he got the Mayor of Indy to contact his neighbor who was the CEO of Mayflower to send moving trucks to Baltimore immediately, and then to have them take different routes to get to Indy is insane. As soon as they hit Indiana they got police escort.
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EugeneJ posted:Won't the owners be pissed because the small capacity means less revenue to share Maybe, but 1. they weren't drawing big in SD anyway and 2. being a second occupant of the Inglewood stadium effectively doubles the number of suites to sell to businesses (I assume).
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Can't wait to see the tifos.
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Blitz7x posted:Imagine if we didn't have twitter and we had to all find out this morning by newspaper or whatever A bit of a tangent, but my whole life I've fantasized about the Chargers or Padres winning a championship and framing the front page of the paper. Probably never gonna happen and today I'm gonna get rid of (put in storage) so much Chargers poo poo because I can't stand looking at it. gently caress Spanos.
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seiferguy posted:I feel like there are more Patriots fans in LA than Charger fans. Allow me to channel my inner programmer and say you don't need an if statement here.
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are the games going to conflict with the lingerie football and professional lacrosse schedules?
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The amount of people crying on the radio today is depressing. I'll have a big effort post this weekend
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Lost in the hilarity of the Chargers playing at the StubHub Center is that going to games there will actually be pretty sweet with how close you'll be to the field (insert joke about just being closer to touching the poop here). Edit: Jesus christ their 2017 home non-division slate: Bills, Dolphins, Browns, Redskins, Eagles 
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a new study bible! posted:I love the idea of the Chargers playing on an actual soccer pitch. I knew I shouldn't have wished on monkey paw that the Jags never move to London
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It's still amazing how two-faced an owner can be, even on the same day. After that whole "San Diego will always be home" letter this morning:quote:"I'm looking forward, not backwards," he told ESPN in a brief phone conversation. "I spent half my life here. I leave behind a lot of friends and lot of great memories, but life goes on. There are always a lot of changes in life, and we know this is not going to be easy. But we made a decision, we're committed to it, and our family is 100 percent behind it. What's happened has happened."
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pathetic little tramp posted:Allow me to channel my inner programmer and say you don't need an if statement here. They're getting a new coach, and a good draft could produce a decent outcome. Remember that the Chargers lost a bunch of games in the 4th quarter this year too. But again, their window is pretty small.
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EugeneJ posted:Won't the owners be pissed because the small capacity means less revenue to share I may be mistaken but if I recall correctly: -Media market money (TV ad revenue, basically) goes 100% to the league to be shared equally among owners/teams -Ticket sales is usually for the team, although sometimes part of that can go to the city/owner of the land/etc. depending on the deal that was done to get the stadium built -In-stadium concession + merch sales goes 100% to the owner -Non-in-stadium merch goes mostly to the owner, with a cut going to the league? I think? In any case, the #1 thing the league cares about is viability of the NFL on the whole, and the #1 thing the owners care about is total media market revenues. The owners have effectively a veto over any proposed team move, while the league has a lot of influence in that they can offer financing, charge relocation fees, etc. The above is probably not 100% correct but I'm quite sure about the media market factor being the thing the owners collectively care about the most.
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seiferguy posted:They're getting a new coach, and a good draft could produce a decent outcome. Remember that the Chargers lost a bunch of games in the 4th quarter this year too. But again, their window is pretty small. I think they can challenge for the division with a solid draft. They have the benefit of playing a very weak set of unique opponents (Browns/Jaguars) as compared to the other AFC West teams and their game against the Patriots is on the road (so they don't have to burn a home game on a lost cause).
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Intruder posted:I hope Rivers retires immediately after the draft Actually no, immediately after the third preseason game instead Leperflesh posted:Jags have a new coach too, and browns have the #1 pick. lol if you think the Browns are going to be anything more than a smoldering pile of poo poo for at least two more seasons (probably forever)
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Intruder posted:Actually no, immediately after the third preseason game instead Dickest possible move would be to quit two minutes before kickoff of the first regular season game wait no, quit literally after calling time out just before the first offensive snap. Just get out there, let the offense line up, call an unexpected time out, go over to the sidelines and be all "wait I just realized: I quit" and then strip off his gear and run naked as a jaybird through the half-empty stands while the stadium cops chase him around, batons in the air, while yackety sax plays.
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Intruder posted:lol if you think the Browns are going to be anything more than a smoldering pile of poo poo for at least two more seasons (probably forever) The Browns won't be bad forever, but it does seem like that right now
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Leperflesh posted:Dickest possible move would be to quit two minutes before kickoff of the first regular season game With Kevin Harlan calling the whole thing
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