The demise this week of the San Diego Fleet football club is unfortunate, but not unfamiliar.
Decades ago when an indoor soccer league collapsed, the San Diego Sockers were pulled down with it.
Neither team — the football Fleet nor the futbol Sockers — deserved to fold in a pure sporting sense.
The Fleet served up interesting, if flawed, football, and from the second home game onward, each Fleet crowd exceeded the previous one.
Fleet fans seemed unbothered that at the old Mission Valley stadium, the food-and-drink options and video displays paled in comparison to Padres home games.