During this “alleged” lull before the offseason goes into full swing, three stories caught my attention.
Philip Rivers’s quiet ending in L.A.
One of my adages about the business of sports is this: Even for the best of the best, it rarely, if ever, ends well. This week’s illustration of that adage is embodied in the unusually quiet exit of Philip Rivers from the team he guided for a decade and a half.
Rivers has been the signature player for the San Diego/Los Angeles Chargers since the mid-2000s. And now, two years after the team’s clumsy relocation to a soccer stadium and months before it starts playing in a sparkling new venue in Los Angeles, Rivers and the Chargers have “mutually agreed” to separate, which translates to: “The Chargers are moving on.