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Spanos, Chargers stumble amid unprecedented NFL PR blunders

Stop trying to wrap your head around what the Dean Spanos-led Chargers did Thursday when he announced the team would jettison its hearts-and-wallets supporters of 56 seasons to move to Los Angeles.

Consider, instead, how they did it.

This will go down as arguably the biggest public-relations fumble in NFL history. It’s that epic, that tone deaf, that cold, that distant, that delusional, that entitled and that ham-handed.

Yes, Robert Irsay’s Colts left Baltimore for Indianapolis in the middle of the night. This, though, was so much more.