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Post by ragin'aztec on Jan 13, 2019 20:29:58 GMT -8
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Post by FAULK U on Jan 14, 2019 11:48:20 GMT -8
Thanks for that link. Screw them. I haven't lived in SD for 20 plus years, but the Chargers no longer exist to me and I was a diehard fan for thirty years. Ungrateful loser organization. Horrible. Those dorks can take a long walk on a short pier.
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Post by retiredaztec on Jan 14, 2019 12:06:47 GMT -8
Where were you when, after the city voters approved the construction of the new Padre's stadium, and Alex Spanos immediately wanted to open dialogue for a new stadium for his Chargers but was rebuffed year after year, (and spare me the "expansion" of a stadium already on the clock)? Certainly by the time
the boy took over, the team was pretty much dead man walking in San Diego, a third major league franchise to depart the city.
I'm sure the players couldn't possibly care less what the honks in San Diego have to say at this stage. They had a great season, 'nuff said.
Maybe this hostility stems from the fact you guys have to wake up next to Aztec football.
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Post by survalli on Jan 14, 2019 12:31:03 GMT -8
#metoo
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Post by aardvark on Jan 14, 2019 13:51:43 GMT -8
Where were you when, after the city voters approved the construction of the new Padre's stadium, and Alex Spanos immediately wanted to open dialogue for a new stadium for his Chargers but was rebuffed year after year, (and spare me the "expansion" of a stadium already on the clock)? Certainly by the time
the boy took over, the team was pretty much dead man walking in San Diego, a third major league franchise to depart the city.
I'm sure the players couldn't possibly care less what the honks in San Diego have to say at this stage. They had a great season, 'nuff said.
Maybe this hostility stems from the fact you guys have to wake up next to Aztec football.
Cool story, especially if "immediately" means about 16 months, as that is the time frame it took Alex Spanos to inquire about a new stadium (allegedly off the record) for the Chargers after the Padres got Prop C passed in 1998. Also, if Dean Spanos was really serious about building a new stadium in 2004 along with other private investors, all he really had to do was offer to buy his 60 acres at the current stadium site and build his stadium and ancillary development. When the Padres gave in to the stadium expansion, they knew what they were doing, as it got them their ballpark downtown. The Chargers were outmaneuvered in the long run by the Padres. Even Dean Spanos admitted back in April of 2000 that, given the current climate (in 2000), the Chargers didn't expect the public to pay for a new stadium. Now, the Chargers are a laughingstock--playing in a 27,000 seat rented soccer stadium that they can't sell out.
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Post by ragin'aztec on Jan 14, 2019 14:35:09 GMT -8
"They had a great season" Well it was alright i'll give em that. Still no SuperBowl ring. But that's just the Spanos legacy, of course.
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Post by cmonaztecs on Jan 14, 2019 18:15:36 GMT -8
And the way they lost being totally dominated was truly an embarrassment of epic proportions. Proved only that they barely belonged and maybe only because of Rivers and after he's gone they will recede into mediocrity where they most likely belong in posterity of half filled Stadiums for fans suffering from an identity crisis, the only thing better would be to see the look on Spanos face when he realized that he doesn't belong with the elite but with the wanna be's.
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