Move to StubHub Center shows Chargers desperation to leave San Diego

The move to the 30,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson shows just how desperate the Chargers are to leave San Diego behind.

San Diego Chargers owner Dean Spanos can’t stay another minute in San Diego.

He’s so desperate to move his team out of America’s Finest City that he’s willing to move into a soccer stadium until Sam Kroenke’s new $2.6 billion football palace in Inglewood is completed.

Let that sink in for a minute, folks.

The Chargers, which will move two hours up Interstate 5 to Los Angeles beginning in 2017, are, according to brent Schrotenboer of USA Today, planning on using the 30,000-seat StubHub Center in suburban Carson until they move to Inglewood with the Los Angeles Rams in 2018.

Mind you, the StubHub Center was never meant to host an NFL franchise. It’s a soccer venue that will be overwhelmed when the Chargers arrive for the 2017 season. It will be the smallest venue in the NFL, and one that has no business hosting this tattered franchise.

This is yet another embarrassing move that has Spanos’ DNA spattered all over it. The Chargers will already be the Clippers of the NFL by playing in someone else’s stadium and being the second-banana to the Rams, but to put them in a soccer stadium in a non-descript suburb of LA makes little sense, if any.

If Spanos had a heart, he would, at the very least, give the Chargers fans a “farewell season” in San Diego, a chance for the fans who have been with this snake-bitten team for 58 years to say goodbye to their football team.

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But the deal to play at the StubHub Center proves that Spanos was never committed to making things work in San Diego. As soon as a stadium deal in Hollywood came through, he jumped on in like a fly jumps on horse manure. Come to think of it, that’s what the Chargers move to the StubHub Center reeks off.