It’s not easy to kill myths that make us feel good.
But that’s what happened a year ago this week when Dean Spanos, with the NFL’s support, moved Chargers Football Company, LLC, out of San Diego.
San Diegans one and all were made to see the inconvenient truth that the San Diego Chargers belonged not to them but to the Spanos family headed by Dean and his three siblings.
The only approval the Spanos family needed to move their company, as it turned out, was that of the NFL.
It didn’t matter that San Diego, as other cities had for NFL teams in their markets, had aided the Chargers with hundreds of millions of dollars of public money toward a stadium and a training site, in return for having NFL football close at hand.