The Chargers are moving to Los Angeles because the city chose to put its own needs before those of a sports franchise and its wealthy backers
Sooner or later the public welfare office for sports billionaires is going to close. American cities will look at the more than $7bn of taxpayer money spent in the last 20 years on football stadiums alone and say: “Enough!”
On Thursday, the San Diego Chargers announced they will be leaving the city where they have played for the last 56 years, and will move to Los Angeles. They are doing this because the politicians and voters in San Diego did not give Chargers owner Dean Spanos the same golden gift Atlanta and Seattle and all the other capitulating municipalities gave their ridiculously wealthy teams’ owners.
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Thursday is not historic; it is sad. The Chargers are an institution in a city that doesn’t have many
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