Could the LA Chargers return “home” to San Diego?

If the Chargers move to Los Angeles continues to embarrass the league, perhaps Spanos could actually return to San Diego (with apologies of course), So far, the team’s move to LA has not been so smooth. As you probably and most likely already know, Los Angeles has enough teams already and they really do not seem to care much for “San Diego’s” Chargers. Perhaps with tons more embarrassment, Mr. Spanos simply decides to make a U turn, and just like that it is the San Diego Super Chargers again! Do you like my writing? It gets even better:

San Diego as a city, needs to grow up and start acting like they really want a world class stadium, and get it built. Forget trying to get the NFL or a Spanos type to pay for it. Just get it built. Mr. Spanos may come crying home in the near future after his major failure in Los Angeles. Is that so hard to imagine? Perhaps it is not that hard to imagine at all. It just might take a few years, (for Spanos to wake up) by then, San Diego’s new stadium is ready (or almost ready) and looking great!

If San Diego is a true world class city, it needs a world class venue, not just for an NFL team, we are talking major league soccer, the Aztecs, monster trucks, motocross, future conventions, (comic con etc.) the list goes on and on. Perhaps San Diego’s civic leadership can finally figure out a way to build a beautiful new stadium in Mission Valley, where it belongs. Something their citizens can all be proud of. Let’s face it, their Qualcomm Stadium is a dump that keeps cracking and leaking.

Is San Diego finally ready to step up its game? If the city of San Diego and the County of San Diego, and also the Port of San Diego all get together and chip in, the new Mission Valley stadium would be a reality sooner than you think, and Mr Spanos would have to come off of his high horse and bring the Chargers back to Mission Valley where they truly belong. Really strong city leadership is what the city of San Diego desperately needs. Here is a hint to their mayor: Pave the streets and build a new stadium. It is not rocket science.

Now lets get back to the subject of the Los Angeles Chargers. Dean Spanos’ decision to move the San Diego Chargers to Los Angeles was an unpopular one. Surprisingly, the move angered not just loyal fans in San Diego but, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, “a ton of owners” as well.

As much as the Chargers’ move to Los Angeles angered San Diego, it angered NFL executives and owners just as much, if not more.

Since the move was announced, the NFL has been “besides itself,” in the words of one league source. “There are a ton of owners very upset that [the Chargers] moved,” one source said. The source added that the NFL wants the Chargers to move back, though nobody believes that possibility is realistic.

But some NFL owners and some league officials are still hoping that, now that the move has been made official, Chargers chairman Dean Spanos will wake up one morning soon, recognize this situation has been “bungled so bad” and take his team back to San Diego, where it spent the past 56 years. Again, the chances are at best remote that this happens, however it may take even more “failures” from the Chargers to get a clue just how bad this may turn out. So far, it has been a debacle.

For now, there are NFL owners and league officials still praying that the longest of long shots comes in and the Chargers bolt back to San Diego. Hopefully the Chargers organization, wakes up from their stupor, and stops sniffing glue. In other words, lets all hope they come back to planet earth.

While neither Schefter nor his sources specify why, exactly, they disliked the decision, the idea of owners being down on the Chargers move to Los Angeles it was surprising. It does not serve the NFL to be at odds with other teams and sources. I think the most obvious reason would be the fact that San Diego simply had way too many loyal fans, and whenever you uproot and alienate that many people, it can never ever be a good thing, and that is exactly what happened and as Clint Eastwood once said “its gonna get fucking ugly.”

Can the Chargers really get the respect (from LA) that they will need to survive in Los Angeles?

The initial stages of the Chargers’ transition to Los Angeles have been rough. First, the team announced the move, drawing fans to their San Diego headquarters to drop off their gear in the parking lot. Then, Twitter made enough fun of the team’s new logo that they changed it on their social media sites multiple times.

Tight end Jeff Cumberland was booed by a crowd at Staples Center when shown on the video screen during a Lakers-Clippers game. Two dozen San Diego moving companies banded together and agreed to not help the team make the two-hour trip north to L.A. And at the LA Forum, While the team held a lame looking rally, Spanos got a real earful from a San Diego fan. And don’t forget, the team made the unconventional choice to make a 30,000-seat soccer stadium its temporary home for the next two seasons.

Lets hope the Chargers stop drinking their bath water and head on home. We all know they were in la la land even before they actually went to la la land, and it would feel great to straighten things out, and bring the team back to San Diego where they belong.

It can only get better from here, right? San Diego, are you ready to take them back?