SAN DIEGO — The San Diego Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, where they will join the recently relocated Rams in giving the nation’s second-largest media market two NFL teams for the first time in decades.
Team chairman Dean Spanos made the announcement Thursday in a letter posted on the Chargers’ Twitter account.
A letter from Dean Spanos pic.twitter.com/rTNIvrsN1A
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Spanos cited the Chargers’ long history in San Diego. “But today, we turn the page and begin an exciting new era as the Los Angeles Chargers,” Spanos said in the letter.