In their Los Angeles venture, did Chargers owner Dean Spanos and his NFL enablers bite off more than they could chew, moving a football team to a dense sports market where it wasn’t wanted?
It’s a popular narrative in San Diego, and one that gained more support Thursday with fresh financial details reported by ESPN’s Seth Wickersham and Don Van Natta Jr., whose lengthy story on the uneasy Chargers-Rams marriage is a colorful read.
For instance, the Chargers have sold “a weak 25,000 seasons tickets to date” toward the 2020 season and the 70,000-seat Inglewood Stadium that’s to open next summer.