5 reasons the Chargers relocating to Los Angeles is the right move
By John Buhler
With the Chargers opting to relocate to Los Angeles, it means that the beast of burden that was trying to finance a new stadium in San Diego is no more. The Chargers weren’t going to play at outdated Qualcomm Stadium forever.
It was strange in the last few years to see the Chargers actually have a negative home-field advantage while playing at Qualcomm. Most of the time, half of the stadium would be filled with fans of the opposition. There may have been more Oakland Raiders fans at Chargers games that Chargers fans in recent meeting between these AFC West rivals.
By the end of the decade, the Chargers will play in the same state of the art stadium in Inglewood with the Rams. It doesn’t really matter that they’ll be playing in a soccer stadium the next two years.
If Spanos would have told stayed in San Diego for the next two years with the intentions of taking up the Rams’ Inglewood offer, nobody would be going to the games any way. It would be as bad as the demise of the Houston Oilers once their late owner Bud Adams announced he relocating his team to Nashville.
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2017 will be strange to not have an NFL franchise in San Diego, but the Chargers deserved better than having to jump through hoops of fire to keep their team in town. The NFL has always been a business and a great one at that. It’s full steam ahead for the Chargers in Los Angeles, or whatever the team is going to be called going forward.