San Diego's stadium saga has been long and bruising, beginning when Alex Spanos said in 2000 that the team needed a new stadium. That was just three years after the city expanded what was then Jack Murphy Stadium to accommodate the Chargers and Super Bowls.
They've never been back.
San Diego Stadium opened in 1967 and was renamed Jack Murphy Stadium in 1980 for the former San Diego Union sports editor who was instrumental in bringing pro sports to the city.
Now the franchise of Jack Kemp, Dan Fouts,WBC Jerseys 2017, Lance Alworth, Kellen Winslow, Junior Seau and LaDainian Tomlinson could be heading back up the freeway to L.A., where it played its inaugural season in 1960 before relocating to San Diego's Balboa Stadium.
"It could be emotional. I mean,China Jerseys Football, it really could be," Rivers said. "Certainly not knowing, and not going to know right after the game, either. I think I'll even soak in the drive over there a little more than the past 100 something times I've done it for a game."
It's gotten downright nasty this year. Spanos attorney Mark Fabiani has constantly attacked Mayor Kevin Faulconer, the only leader in years who has presented the team with a plan.
The Chargers walked away from negotiations in mid-June and have focused efforts on Carson. Spanos has had the right to leave since 2008, but efforts became more aggressive when Kroenke announced plans to build a stadium in Inglewood. The Chargers claim 25 percent of their fan base comes from north of San Diego County, although they've declined to offer proof.
"I hope it's packed with a bunch of fans who want to cheer us on," said safety Eric Weddle,Discount Jerseys, who will be playing his final home game because the Chargers won't extend his contract.
And then it could be all over after 55 seasons.
Heck, even quarterback Philip Rivers knows it's going to be a different feeling as he wheels his Ford F-250 down the hill and into the parking lot for what could be his last game at Qualcomm in his 12 seasons with the Bolts.
It was where Air Coryell first took off behind Fouts, Charlie Joiner, Winslow — all Hall of Famers — and John Jefferson. Seau's fist-pumping histrionics were honed after every big hit. Tomlinson was carried off the field on the shoulders of his offensive linemen after breaking the single-season touchdown record in 2006, en route to winning the NFL MVP Award. A capacity crowd roared when Miami's Pete Stoyanovich pushed a field goal attempt wide right, extending the magical 1994 season by sending the Chargers to the AFC championship game.
It has hosted three Super Bowls, including John Elway's breakthrough first title victory in January 1998.
RVs will jam into section A1 and smoke from tailgate barbecues will rise from all around the massive parking lot that circles the aging stadium.
Wearing their replica jerseys with Rivers or Gates — or even Seau — on the back, fans will make their way inside to watch the Chargers (3-10) face the Miami Dolphins (5-8). If the Chargers find the end zone, the cannon in the southwest corner will go off. If rookie Josh Lambo kicks a field goal, the disco ditty "San Diego Super Chargers" will blare from the one thing that still works well at the Q, the sound system.
Rivers raises a good point. No one knows how it will play out next month when NFL owners gather in Houston to try to decide whether it's the Chargers, Raiders or Rams, or some combination, who get to return the NFL to L.A. after an absence of two decades.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — Come Sunday, those San Diego Chargers fans who haven't been turned off by bad football or ownership's hardball attempt to bolt to a Los Angeles suburb will head to Qualcomm Stadium, perhaps for the final time.
Two weeks later they were embarrassed by Steve Young and the San Francisco 49ers in the Super Bowl.
While wanting the Chargers to stay, Faulconer has insisted that the voters have a say. He also wants a deal that protects the taxpayers,Cheap Football Jerseys, and thus is offering far less of a public contribution than what the Chargers and the NFL expect.
Now they might be off to L.A., a city most San Diegans love to hate.
No one knows quite how to approach Sunday's game. Some fans will be nostalgic. Some will be angry at team Chairman Dean Spanos, who, through an attorney who used to be deputy mayor of Los Angeles,Air Max 97 Super Scontate, has seemingly been trying to beat St. Louis Rams owner Stan Kroenke to the perceived riches of L.A. Fans were stunned in February when the Chargers announced a partnership with thei