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  1. I know of one in Belleville, New Jersey...
    9 points
  2. Every city in America has one Miami Dolphins fan and he's usually annoying.
    8 points
  3. The Chargers are going to exist solely for Los Angelenos whose favorite teams aren't the Chargers. They're going to play 16 road games a year. If you're a Los Angeles based Broncos fan this is probably great because your one game a year just moved 2 hours closer to you. The Steelers will come to town, fill the stadium, and Al Michaels will say "you know Steelers fans travel well." No, those Steeler fans live in LA and have probably never been to Pittsburgh or have any connection to Pittsburgh.
    7 points
  4. A.G. Spanos: "If we make a mistake, we own it, learn from it, and move on without looking back." That's in reference to the logo, but shouldn't it apply to the move already as well?
    5 points
  5. From what I can pick up, it's more like "we don't want them, not this way." I'd say it's sort of like when someone tries to sell you speakers that "fell off the back of a truck," if only because I cannot bear another franchise/wife analogy.
    4 points
  6. More bad news for the Chargers. Had to cancel their fan rally at the Forum tomorrow. No fan interest.
    4 points
  7. Lynn's nickname should be Shockmaster.
    3 points
  8. The Chargers are the hormonal teenager that ran away from home because his/her parents wouldn't buy them a new car and decided to move in with the drunk uncle who can't stand him/her and is having enough issues dealing with his own hormonal teenager. YOU WANT ME TO GET A JOB AND BUY MY OWN CAR? YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!
    3 points
  9. Can the Chargers just change their name to the Los Angeles Schadenfreude?
    3 points
  10. You act like this is something new. They've been bumbling around San Diego like this since the day they fired Marty Schottenheimer. Just they were in a small market and hadn't pissed off pretty much everyone on Earth so no one noticed except us San Diegans. Welcome to the show!
    2 points
  11. Mark would rather die than give up the Raiders name.
    2 points
  12. Love it. That's absolutely beautiful.
    2 points
  13. I just figured out how to fix and transport the San Diego Super Chargers song San Di-eh-uhh, L-A Chargers San Di-eh-uhh, L-A CHARGERS! San Di-eh-uhh, L-A Chargers San Di-eh-uhh, L-A CHARGERS, CHARGE! Go. Home.
    2 points
  14. I guess I'm out of my bloody mind. Holy cow. Those stripes were huge then and they're still huge now
    2 points
  15. So the Chargers haven't yet played a down in Los Angeles and are already the most hated team in the NFL? "I LOVE IT!!!"
    2 points
  16. Here's another. Giants and Chargers 2005. Only time this one happened:
    2 points
  17. It is. People in Las Vegas at least wanted that team. That the logo and merchandise unveiling was such a mess was due in part to anticipation for the team. (Though how much of that was WE WANT HOCKEY vs WE WANT PRO SPORTS AND HOCKEY WILL DO FOR NOW? We'll see when the Raiders move.) The Chargers' move to LA, to steal a phrase, has gone over like a fart in church.
    2 points
  18. My facebook newsfeed is asking whether I might like to win a chance to have coffee with Bobby Hull at Dunkin Donuts. I'd rather not, and not just because I hate both coffee and Dunkin Donuts. It's really time to start easing Bobby Hull out of active marketing campaigns of this sort. We're ten years in, the fences have all been mended, that's all fine, but enough's enough. I think what's made it so hard is that Stan's not there with him anymore. When it was Bobby and Stan, you could avert your eyes from the bad stuff a little bit because Stan Mikita is one of the game's great gentlemen, so psychologically, you can't help but think "well, he can't be that bad." In my opinion, the thrust of McDonough's whole ambassador campaign in the first place was that the Blackhawks were making a guy everyone liked welcome again; Hull, Esposito, and Savard were incidental. But now, seeing Hull sans Mikita is just a sad reminder that his old teammate, the guy everyone liked so much, is at home (or in a home) dying of dementia, about as awful a fate as anyone can have, so it brings me no joy to see Hull alone. I don't think the Blackhawks need to publicly condemn Bobby Hull or ban him for life or anything. Outside of a small group of people who all talk to one another online, I don't think there's really an appetite for that, and even that may not be unanimous. But you can start to set apart the player and the person. Let him come to games for free, sure, and if the Hawks win the Cup again this year (which, even though we're in love with the East now and the Hawks have switched to IDGAF mode for the next three months, they have as good a chance as anyone of doing), have him on the ice for the ceremony. But I'd shy away from promotions like this one. You can acknowledge Bobby Hull as one of the greatest players in the history of the Blackhawks, which he is, without selling him as a person I might care to spend time with, which he isn't. I would want to eliminate the possibility, however infinitesimal, that a woman and/or a Jewish person wins this contest and throws delicious Dunkin Donuts coffee right in his face.
    2 points
  19. They'll be playing in a 30,000 seat stadium, and I haven't looked at their home schedule for next year, but I fully expect road team fans to be the vast majority of their attendance. Especially if they host some of the more popular NFL teams. I seriously expect road team fans to buy out virtually the whole stadium. It's gonna be hilarious.
    2 points
  20. Imagine the tailgating. Lots of milk and green Jell-o being pounded.
    2 points
  21. I think it's more a matter of building a brand. Simpler logos that are the same every year are more recognizable as the same event. It wouldn't be so much of a problem if the logos weren't so bad and allowed for more variability from year to year. They certainly made the atheistic choice for Super Bowl XXXIV which would be nice if they did now a days. But now they just follow a formula and a pattern for what ever reason. Anyways, modern-retro mix style fields, with some other changes. Really would love to see something like this. Won't happen of course.
    1 point
  22. Oh it goes WAY further back than Schottenheimer. Minus one season in which they got absolutely killed in the Super Bowl against the Niners they've basically been garbage since the end of the Fouts era. Which, not surprisingly, kind of coincides with the beginning of the Spanos era. And, honestly, they were't particularly amazing even back before then. The Chargers have basically been a joke since the beginning.
    1 point
  23. Ooh, has the Chargers/Shockmaster convergence been explored in gif form yet? It's too perfect.
    1 point
  24. 1 point
  25. I really can't blame Lynn for the gaffe, I mean I still catch myself saying "San Diego" too. It's going to take some getting used to.
    1 point
  26. As a huge fan of the NFL and being extremely interested in the design of the Super Bowl field since I can remember my first, Super Bowl 18 (Raiders/Washington), I must say I am SO disappointed with the direction of the field/logos for the most important game the league plays. Since Super Bowl 45 starting with the generic logo template, it just gets worse. I really wonder who is making these decisions. It's like league execs are getting together before every super bowl and saying "How can we make the field less and less aesthetically appealing?" Is it a cost cutting move or are they really that boring? How can a field design get worse over time? Anyways...I sincerely hope they go back to a end zone design featuring the team helmets and conference logos. The SB 50 end zone design was so bad. You would think you'd at least do a throwback field design or something extra special for the 50th! No Conference logos and the symmetry of the word marks were off! I think it looks so much better when they outline the numbers with team colors and have some personality to the Super Bowl logo (does the league not want to pay an artist to design a new logo every year?), not the same template with some small changes. The best looking field ever was SB 33, even though my Vikings should have been there:( Doing something similar to that and the earlier SB fields would be the best IMO. Can I please have the job to design the field? Sorry for the rant....Come on NFL!
    1 point
  27. LOLA Chargers. All of a sudden they can't do a single thing right.
    1 point
  28. I'd almost think this is San Diego trading up.
    1 point
  29. That's a bonus rate uniform and rare stadium matchup. That game is from 2000, when the Seahawks played at Husky Stadium in between the Kingdome and Century Link.
    1 point
  30. This is an interesting article. I'd laugh if the Raiders moved to San Diego. All of the old Chargers fans would be Raiders -- and all of the old LA Raiders fans would be Raiders fan, leaving the Chargers in LA with pretty much nothing. HAHAHA!
    1 point
  31. Got an MLS sized crowd of media out to their coaching unveiling too. Absolutely pitiful. Looks like cancelling the big "Fan Rally" was their first good idea since moving to LA.
    1 point
  32. It'll be the NFL's most intimate venue. Then again, football's one sport in which "inimate" is not great. The vast majority of seats will be too close.
    1 point
  33. It's adorable. I can't wait to see a real-live game there.
    1 point
  34. Looks like a high school field. Wait it is.
    1 point
  35. Conference Championship week is upon us, so it's time for some Super Bowl LI field predictions! I'm thinking they will keep the same endzone structure as last season. Same height on the Super Bowl logos as well. All in all nothing too exciting is expected from me. Field 1 - AFC (1) New England Patriots vs NFC (2) Atlanta Falcons Field 2 - AFC (1) New England Patriots vs NFC (4) Green Bay Packers Field 3 - AFC (3) Pittsburgh Steelers vs NFC (2) Atlanta Falcons Field 4 - AFC (3) Pittsburgh Steelers vs NFC (4) Green Bay Packers I'm glad we won't be getting blue on blue endzones this season. I would like to see Steelers - Falcons, as a Steelers fan. My guess though is that the Patriots will win by simply out coaching Pittsburgh. The NFC game will be high scoring for sure, and it will be a matter of who gets the ball last, like in Dallas last week. But right now Aaron Rodgers is really hot, so it is hard to see Green Bay losing right now, although Atlanta has a team that can certainly keep up offensively.
    1 point
  36. Boo'ed a Chargers player too. This is going to be a total :censored:show next season. I look forward to watching them fail.
    1 point
  37. 2-3 lame duck years does appear to be their plan for now. But I have a feeling that will change. The NFL's history is littered with reasons you do not play lame duck years, worst example being the Oilers last year in Houston. Given they've allowed the Chargers to play in a 27,000 seat soccer stadium, I have a feeling Sam Boyd Stadium will end up looking mighty appealing.
    1 point
  38. Chauncey was traded to Orlando from Denver as part of the Ron Mercer deal in 2000. Didn't play for them, but was in the team photo. He was officially assigned jersey number 2. Yep, Chauncey and Ben Wallace were Magic teammates lol.
    1 point
  39. From the one season when neither was known as the Hornets [2013-14]
    1 point
  40. The white helmet Bills and striped helmet Bengals only met 3 times in the 3 seasons these uniforms coincided. But 2 of them- 1981 regular season, 1983 regular season were blue Bills jersey vs. white Bengals jersey- according to http://www.gridiron-uniforms.com/) Thus, the Bills-Bengals 1981 AFC Divisional Playoffs were the only time ever these specific jersey/helmet combinations met up
    1 point
  41. Not exactly, it's more that overtime had devolved into a dog humping a pillow because no one wanted to make a mistake. Hockey has been consumed by a complete and utter fear of making mistakes. Losing in overtime and losing in a shootout both count the same, they count as half a win, but a shootout, despite the stripping away of numerous variables, is seen as random chance while losing in overtime is seen as having screwed up. And no matter how many people are on the ice for overtime, it's all pillow-humping in the late stages of most tie games because no one wants to give up that guaranteed point. The only way to truly end this mentality is to say that wins are wins and losses are losses, because none of this happens in the playoffs.
    1 point
  42. I just saw that the NHL TV deal is $200 million/year (through 2021) and the MLS deal is $90 million/year (through 2022). I think a fun game which league has the better deal in the next contract. (Paging @dfwabel to add in context I'm likely missing). MLS has seen its best success when it stopped jerking around and focused its product on its core audience. (That more people people are part of that core audience than before is just gravy.) MLS expansion has also been pretty thoughtful and not outwardly antagonistic toward key markets, which is a nice thing. And MLS franchises can announce team names without tripping over their dicks. "Grow the Game" means something, but it could mean more if the league exercised more care in, well, basically anything. As a one-time fan who could potentially be interested in the product again, I don't see what the NHL has to offer me. Just confusing rules, confusing conferences, confusing playoffs, and the noise around ruining the Olympics. I don't get it.
    1 point
  43. Congratulations to the NHL for getting a team's trademark application denied without it involving an ethnic slur.
    1 point
  44. So then does this mean that the turning Gila Bend Arena into a parking lot project is a go?
    1 point
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