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Post by sdsudevil on Mar 14, 2015 22:02:30 GMT -8
As a transplant, San Diego was always an afterthought when I thought of California. I think the Chargers do help to put the name out there. What the actual effect of the Chargers (as in do people go to San Diego vs somewhere else) in a non-football way, I doubt that is measurable.
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Post by The Aztec Panther on Mar 14, 2015 23:42:47 GMT -8
The Padres do little for the image of San Diego nationally because baseball is broadcast locally for the most part. Since the Padres rarely make it to ESPN's weekend games they hardly get national coverage at all.
The Chargers, on the other hand, are broadcast regionally at the very least, and nationally fairly often with some pretty high ratings. San Diego definitely gets a boost thanks to the Chargers.
Losing the Chargers and Comic-Con at the same time would be a huge blow to the image of the city. Seriously, you'd have to be myopic not to understand that San Diego has only gotten negative publicity in the last few years, but when the Chargers are in the playoffs (as they were many times over the last decade, including an AFC Championship game appearance) that gives San Diego some positive national exposure - as does Comic-Con.
Lots of places have beaches. Lots of places have nice weather. And very few people come to San Diego just for the Zoo or Sea World - it's the whole package that they come for. And having the Chargers home games broadcast nationally, with shots of the beaches, downtown, and sometimes the Zoo or Wild Animal Park (errr... Safari Park) brings that home for people. Otherwise, as noted above, for a lot of people San Diego is an afterthought. Los Angeles has a lot more going on for tourists. A lot more.
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Post by podpeople on Mar 31, 2015 15:12:12 GMT -8
the more time goes by, the more I find myself not really caring if the chargers are in San Diego or not. It's a dysfunctional organization, and has been since I can remember. Then Mannings were correct in their assumption, and time has proved it as well.
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Post by ab on Apr 1, 2015 15:18:46 GMT -8
the more time goes by, the more I find myself not really caring if the chargers are in San Diego or not. It's a dysfunctional organization, and has been since I can remember. Then Mannings were correct in their assumption, and time has proved it as well. The want or desire to have the Chargers here or not should have NOTHING to do with how many Super Bowls they've won (or not) and who their owners are. If you talked to Cowboys fans in Dallas you'd find a hate towards Jerry Jones as well. I'm sure that happens in other cities too. There's no guarantee that the Spanos' will continue to own the team forever or not. It's also not as if they haven't tried to win. Remember they brought "god" in, Bobby Beathard and then he apparently turned stupid here when he traded away all the #1 picks. Things happen. Look at all the new energy w/ the Padres new ownership. Maybe that will happen too with the Bolts. I sure hope so.
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Post by zurac315 on May 27, 2015 16:38:06 GMT -8
Well, losing pro football was a death blow for LA. The people moved away and the city dried up and blew away.
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Post by zurac315 on May 27, 2015 16:41:09 GMT -8
the more time goes by, the more I find myself not really caring if the chargers are in San Diego or not. It's a dysfunctional organization, and has been since I can remember. Then Mannings were correct in their assumption, and time has proved it as well. I only care about the Chargers to the extent that their leaving might have an effect on the Aztec's stadium situation.
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Post by ab on May 28, 2015 13:38:22 GMT -8
From a pure dollars and cents standpoint, keep this in mind too. The San Diego Convention Center generated a $1.3 billion economic impact to the region while upkeep of Qualcomm Stadium came at a $10 million net loss to the City of San Diego. Comparing Economic Impact of one building to the operating expense of another isn't even close to apples to oranges.
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Post by ragin'aztec on Jul 1, 2016 19:36:26 GMT -8
San Diego is the greatest city on the planet... with or without the Chargers . I had a good laugh late last year when the NFL and those blood-sucking leeches (aka the Spanos family) thought they could bully us.
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Post by Spud on Jul 7, 2016 19:34:33 GMT -8
Nobody will stop coming to San Diego for vacation because the $#!+ Chargers are no longer here. Whenever I've visited the east coast and met people and told them I'm from San Diego, NOT A SINGLE ONE mentioned the Chargers...EVER. They ALWAYS ask about the weather. And come to think of it, I'd say 90% of the sales people I deal with all day mention the weather....the number 2 topic? SDSU hoops.... You dolts who think that the Chargers leaving will leave San Diego in the lurch are just plain ignorant.
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Post by Spud on Jul 7, 2016 19:35:46 GMT -8
From a pure dollars and cents standpoint, keep this in mind too. The San Diego Convention Center generated a $1.3 billion economic impact to the region while upkeep of Qualcomm Stadium came at a $10 million net loss to the City of San Diego. Comparing Economic Impact of one building to the operating expense of another isn't even close to apples to oranges. Fair enough...but the Stadium can't even come close to that level of economic impact...don't even try to get there.
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Post by Spud on Jul 7, 2016 19:37:24 GMT -8
The Padres do little for the image of San Diego nationally because baseball is broadcast locally for the most part. Since the Padres rarely make it to ESPN's weekend games they hardly get national coverage at all. The Chargers, on the other hand, are broadcast regionally at the very least, and nationally fairly often with some pretty high ratings. San Diego definitely gets a boost thanks to the Chargers. Losing the Chargers and Comic-Con at the same time would be a huge blow to the image of the city. Seriously, you'd have to be myopic not to understand that San Diego has only gotten negative publicity in the last few years, but when the Chargers are in the playoffs (as they were many times over the last decade, including an AFC Championship game appearance) that gives San Diego some positive national exposure - as does Comic-Con. Lots of places have beaches. Lots of places have nice weather. And very few people come to San Diego just for the Zoo or Sea World - it's the whole package that they come for. And having the Chargers home games broadcast nationally, with shots of the beaches, downtown, and sometimes the Zoo or Wild Animal Park (errr... Safari Park) brings that home for people. Otherwise, as noted above, for a lot of people San Diego is an afterthought. Los Angeles has a lot more going on for tourists. A lot more. Joan Embery probably did more for San Diego tourism in a few years on Johnny Carson than the entire existence of the Chargers in SD...
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