Dean Spanos "The Era Of Mediocrity

I  know this is long. But I wanted to review the entire era of Dean Spanos so people can see what really happened in November 2016. The city did not say no to Chargers football. It said Hell No to the owner of that team. Our mistrust and anger over your mediocrity way of thinking and ineptness business dealings over the years. We decided as a city that our hatred of you was larger than our love f0r football. Next Saturday, My article on Measure C will be out. No secrets kept and no one protected. A true glimpse behind the scenes of what a complete scam Measure C was.

Mediocrity is defined as ” A person who does not have the ability to do something well.”

Charger fans have been given a label by some as being bandwagon fans, Laid back with no loyalty, lacking compassion for their teams or to blame for the team relocation. That is a giant load of bullshit. Charger fans deserve a Medal of Honor for their commitment to their team.

Using a formula of fan loyalty and devotion VS The rewards and benefits of being a fan for a certain team. You will see that being a San Diego Charger fan isn’t for the weak of heart. Actually, being a Charger fan is great.! Being a fan of a team owned by the Spanos family is a living hell.

It all began in 1984 when Alex bought the team for 70 million dollars from Gene Klein. The Chargers were admired nationwide for the Coryell years of high powered offense that NFL fans has never seen before. Fans would pack the Murph wearing their Charger Power shirts. Charger football would became a family tradition of tailgating with friends and family then to go into the stadium to root on the hometown heroes. These memories would be passed down from one generation to another. Then their kids who do the same and pass that tradition onto their kids. It was a treasured tradition and one Charger fans cherished in the massive parking lot. The Murph was a dual stadium used by the Padres, Aztecs and Chargers. It was like a home away from home to many families.

Then things began to change

Two years into the Spanos regime as owner. Alex fired Don Coryell and announced it as a resignation. It was in the middle of the 1986 season. The team started the season 1-7 so Coryell was replaced and at that time was the right thing to do. But announcing his termination as a resignation was the wrong thing to do. It was disrespectful to a coach/player heading out the door to treat them with such little respect. In what would become a Spanos future signature mark. Who they replaced him with was the furthest thing from being the right choice. Alex Spanos fired Don Coryell and replaced him with Al Saunders. The greatest coach in Charger history was just replaced by a man who would go 17-22 in three years. “Never under estimate this family ability to make a bad decision.”

Alex was a billionaire making his fortune as a real estate developer. He owned properties throughout the country and lived in Stockton ,Ca. Alex who was a proud Greek. He had a good ole American dream story. He came here with nothing and achieved the American dream. He married Faye and made billions in real estate. Alex family consisted of Dean and Michael Spanos and their two daughters Dea and Alexis. The Chargers it seemed to be merely a profit ran soon to be a family owned business .He didn’t really care if they won nor did he really know how to operate the day to day operations of a NFL team. Alex son Dean Spanos had no right to even talk football in a room with grown men. He was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and had his daddys billions to take care of his future. Alex who bought 60% of the team later would buy out the other owners. Over the next 10 years he brought his ownership up to 97%. George Pernicano also owned 3 % of the team.

In early 1994, Alex turned the day to day operations over to Dean Spanos. Later on that year the team went on to being in their first and only Super Bowl. The 1994 season would be the best year of the Spanos era as the teams owner. Coryell was hired the same day that the PSA plane crashed into North Park. Don Coryell would later turn his misfortunes around from that terrible San Diego day. Dean was different then Alex. He would never catch on with the fans. Soon that relationship became a crash in itself. Under Alex, the team went 68-91. Dean was always considered to be the rich snob from Stockton among the fans. Even though, his many charity contributions over the years to San Diego charities added up to the millions. He never became was one with the fans. Fans just could not relate to Dean. The fans loved the team in spite of their odd owner who they felt didn’t share the same compassion for their team as they do. Through all the wins and losses that came with the emotional roller coaster of a ride that happens during the NFL season.

In 1994, every NFL team wore their teams throwbacks jerseys from a past era. It was an idea conceived by Jim Steeg. Jim was in New York and busying revamping the NFL and making the Super Bowl a week long event as it is today. America loved the Chargers powder blues throwbacks uniforms. Chris Berman at ESPn was among the fans that adored the powder blues. The disconnect between Dean and Charger fans showed again here. Fans were dying to make the uni’s a permanent spot in Chargers football. However, Dean was never clever enough to make it their official uniforms. The year following the Super Bowl vs 49ers, the team went 9-7. Dean wouldn’t have another winning season after that for another 10 years.

Renewing the stadium lease

Right before Alex had turn the team over to Dean. Alex was renewing the lease at the stadium on May 30, 1995. He had previosly helped Mayor Susan Golding get the GOP convention to San Diego. The Mayor conducted the talks with Alex. She should have recused herself from the process. Instead she gift wrapped a gold nugget rewarding Alex with the a whooping present. The ticket guarantee! For every seat unsold under 60,000 and the tax payers would buy the empty seats from the team. This was a deal that required good faith. Which would have made the city profit from the agreement towards the end of the deal. The team took advantage of the deal though. The team was not marketing the team though as in previous years. The team actually made more money by 10% more if the seats went unsold. So they relaxed in marketing the team who was not fielding a winning product on the field either.

Alex also left a clause in the lease that after the year 2000 allowed the team to open talks with other cities for relocation. Alex knowing the Rams and Raiders had just left the mega market out of LA just 1 year before. Alex was way back in 1995 already eyeing the money that comes with playing in a market such as LA and the revenue a team can bring in.

After tax payers began to see the empty seats and know they were buying the unsold tickets, 1997 started too bring feelings of betrayal and anger towards the team. The team record was pathetic at 31-65. So much anger and regret swarmed city hall that the city demanded a renegotiations of the lease.

Alex also had set a termination fee of 52 million. But every year after the fee went down more and more. It was down to 12.5 million when they left in January for LA. Of course, this was right when the teams rent was due to going to baloon from 3 million a year to one of the highest rents in the NFL. This is where the city would make it money back and profit if the team kept the attendance at what is averaging in 1997. The team had took advantage of the city vulnerableness and changed the terms of the lease before it started to work against them.

Thus, the city learned never to trust the Spanos at their word. Marketing was suppose to be done by the International Sports Council, a group of fans to market the team. However, they never worked because they were never giving a budget. People wonder why Michael Aguirre was so hot and weary of any talks involving the team. It’s because the city got screwed in every single negotiation session. One man who read the lease was screaming with his hair on fire in a letter to the Mayor and city council. Bruce Henderson issued a dire warning in a letter that Section 31 “The Renegotiation Rights” which would start Jan 1, 2000. The team had the rights to began shopping the team to other cities. Henderson warned that the clause stated as it did in its lease gave the Chargers the right to relocate elsewhere. Henderson warned that the “The team is as good as gone”. Alex had maneuvered the team to relocate if they so desired. He even set the termination fee to reduce each year going from 52 million in 2000 to 12.5 million by 2016.

Chargers spark anger, mistrust, resentment and outrage

The ticket guarantee is the biggest reason the team is now gone. The anger and feeling of mistrust made way for resentment and outrage with city hall and the citizens of San Diego. Dean Spanos was the villain. The deal took 37 million from taxpayers and deposited it into the team’s bank account. Meanwhile, the team was becoming the laughing stock of the country and providing the late night talk shows with plenty of material by the team’s losing and inability to get out of their own way. The massive pileups of bad decisions by Dean and losing football teams that he assembled was wearing thin with even the most diehard fans.

Fan favorites such as Junior Seau, Rodney Harrison, Gary Plummer and Donnie Edwards were shown the door with so much disrespect from the organization. Adding to these mind boggling decisions was Dean hiring of head coaches. Years of pain for Charger fans as names like Kevin Gilbride, June Jones and Mike Riley were what Dean thought was the best names in the NFL at that time.It reached a boiling point with the mockery of drafting Ryan Leaf and the 1-15 season that followed.

Fans still kept believing that every Sunday could be a win. They lived Chargers football 24-7, and 365 days out of the year. Dean’s terrible business sense and reckless decisions were making the relationship between San Diego and Dean Spanos became like a loveless marriage. They would just stay together for the kids. Dean continued to make revenue even through all the losses on the scoreboard and the city budget. San Diego had fires, Pension crises, two mayors resigning and were broke with a negative budget.

After the Raiders made the Super Bowl in the year the host city was San Diego. The NFL had decided the stadium was to old. Tax payers would have to build Dean a stadium now or risk losing their team to LA . In 2002, GM John Bulker moved training camp to Carson for 2 years and hired a crisis management expert and lawyer Mark Fabiani.

Mark Fabiani is of Italian descent. He has two kids in college and is a crisis management expert. He is also a very good friend of mine. Mark isn’t the Darth Vader personnel that people issued him. He actually a really smart great guy. Mark takes an element of truth then spins it and repeats it. Mark told me his job was to keep the anger directed at Dean to himself. For instance, The plume of gas that was underground at the Q was polluted. He made those statement back in 2010. However, the Ground was cleaned by Kinder Morgan in 1998. He knew that. But to get the word out there that Dean was trying but the city never even can not pull any sense the word got out through radio interviews and paper headlines for the rest of the NFL to see.

The city took out a bond to repair the stadium for the 2003 Super Bowl. A 60 million dollar bond with another 18 million coming from Qualcomm for naming rights. The team also got a rent free headquarters built on Murphy Canyon Rd for 15 million taxpaying dollars.

We kept hearing Mark talk about the last 15 years of trying to find a stadium solution. That is blasphemy! They first asked for a stadium in 2002 and began trying in 2006. It was offered by Dean to build a stadium in Mission Valley in 2003. The city would have to sell the 162 acres of land for $1.00. The Charters would then pay for the stadium themselves and keep all the revenue from the surrounding development as a profit.

Mayor Murphy asked a Task Force to be assembled to review what the city has to offer and what requirements were going to be asked of him. The tremendous amount of infrastructure needed at the site to bring everything up to date with state requirements were massive. Who is paying for the land acquisition? The 2003 proposal was the first real proposal on a new stadium. However, it never reached the amount of details and specifics that gets a stadium built plus Dean could not find a developing partner. It was just too soon after the ticket guarantee and the topics were to hot among voters who felt cheated by the Chargers to achieve anything. With that the 2003 proposal ended in 2006.

The pension crises and the fires that burnt a good section of the city along with some arrests of some city councilman at this time made it impossible to jump into such a huge risky project. The Spanos name was so tainted from the poor teams put on the field year after year made the anger over the ticket guarantee so no Mayor at that time could have reached a deal with Dean. The mayor and council would have been ravaged by voters. That mistrust and anger towards the team and Dean was growing and reaching new lows. The threats of moving to LA over and over again with each Fabiani interview and the losses on the field made the disconnect amongst fans and voters growing even wider. It made reaching a deal between the city and Dean Spanos very unlikely. Add to this Dean total lack of a personality or any charisma and you realize he just isn’t a likeable person. Dean has the personality of a door knob. Remember the teacher in the movie “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off”? THAT is Dean!

Climax of mistrust and dislike

The mistrust and dislike between the fans and the Spanos would climax at the end of the year of 2006. General Manager AJ Smith started to finally put together a powerhouse of a team in the NFL. Marty Schottenheimer who made the Chargers credible again after years of dismal losing records and the team was going in the right direction on the field. After going 14-2 during the 2006 season,Dean made the Mount Rushmore of idiotic decisions. He fired Marty as head coach and hired Norv Turner to replace him. The resentment grew so bad between AJ Smith and Marty that season they didn’t even talk to one another. It went on to long and the dysfunction between the two that was allowed by good ole spineless Dean reached the point where they had to be separated.

Soon after, contract disputes with Marcus McNeil and Vincent Jackson coupled with losing fan favorites in Darren Sproles, LT, Merriman and Michael Turner made Dean Spanos one of the most disliked and hated man in San Diego. His lack of any emotion or direction left fans and non football fans to simply disgust him. His spokesman of course was Mark Fabiani who could never let anything go between him and his rivals. Mark character flaw IMO in this process was to never take it down a notch. He never backed down from a fight. In San Diego politics if you want a fight there was never a lack of a sparring partner.

Whether is was City Attorney Mike Aguirre or some other city official at city hall. Mark couldn’t stand their incompetence. Frustration on both sides were taking a toll. We know that building a stadium is a massive project for any city. When you don’t have a strong clear leader to guide the followers then they just start pissing in the wind. San Diego residents had to watch that pissing contest for 15 years and it was wearing everyone down emotionally.

“Over the last 15 years the team has tried several locations and attempts to reach a stadium deal in San Diego.” We all should have taken a shot of whiskey every time we heard Mark say that 15 year line. I’m going to touch on this quickly. Dean made a claim that there were 9 proposals to get a deal done and the city turned them all down. That is a shovel full of shit! Mark was making his case and had for a long time in talking to the NFL through media interviews to get his bullet points heard in NY. His claim that the team exhausted all efforts is bullshit.

Proposals

I also want to credit UT Matthew Hall who broke down this false claim and called the team out into the light for it. A real proposal is a location, a price and how to pay for it. It seemed the team was more interested in spending some cash on studies and having town hall meetings more than reaching a real deal with substance. Something they can present to the NFL as exhausted all efforts.

Proposal 1. Mission Valley in 2003, As discussed this was probably the best proposal. It was to redevelop Mission Valley with restaurants and businesses along with Dean paying half the cost with all 162 acres giving to him for free. ( estimated 150 million to 300 million dollars). It had designs and a financing outline.The problem is the distrust Dean earned in the citizens and city hall eyes along with the city problems made this far from becoming a reality.

Proposal 2. National City…The team wanted to develop 52 acres of land that is controlled by the Port of San Diego and railroad. This never even got off the ground. This is like 2 men at a bar discussing a project of maybe’s. Dean is an outright liar to use this as a real proposal.

Proposal 3 Chula Vista… They had two locations picked out. One was where the power plant was located. The State of Calif would have to shut it down and clean it up. Chula Vista told the team No tax paying money at all. They also wanted the team to change it’s name to the Chula Vista Chargers. Both of those were dead on arrival. This was meant to excite the fans in south bay more than anything as several town hall meetings were held. No plan in specifics were ever discussed to move forward.

Proposal 4. Oceanside….The golf course was discussed to build a stadium and office space. Freeway access was a problem and a financing plan was never offered. That is 3 false proposals and 1 real one.

Proposal 5. A National developer now is making a proposal of sorts. A stadium and shopping center in Oceanside. Yeah, this never entered into a formal financing plan. Four false and one real one.

Proposal 6. A half hearted plan was to buy some land in Escondido for a new stadium. Guess what?? No formal financing plan was ever put together. This is to easy 5 false 1 real one.

Proposal 7. 10th Ave Marine Terminal..This I know for a fact never had a chance. Doug Manchester used his ownership of the UT to promote this idea in 2012. It was dismissed by both the city and the team. Mark Fabiani laughed “This has no shot in hell”. So no formal financing plan discussed. FALSE

Proposal 8..CSAG Proposal in Mission Valley. This one was put forth by the city. The team walked away from the table after a couple of months and refused to discuss anything with the city.

I’m going to quote Dean now. Are you ready? This is laughable. “We’ve had 9 different proposals that were all basically rejected by the city.”

That is called a bold face lie.

Proposal 9. East Village Downtown. I will share some info on this one later in the article but this was to be located at the MTS bus yard and where the Padres tailgate park is now. Tell me if this sound familiar?

Remember now, the year is 2009. Expand the Convention Center by 225,000 sq feet. It would expanded blocks away from the original building. A would have a collapsible roof so you can host the World Cup and NCAA basketball Final Four. The stadium would hold 62,000 capacity but could expand to 71,000. The 15 acre MTS bus yard would be cleaned up at projected cost of 150 million for that and the land acquisition. The price tag in 2009 was $800 million. The team wanted tax payers to pay for 500 million. They wanted a vote in November of 2012. They referred to it as a sports and entertainment district. It would be paid for by a TOT Hotel tax. The teams lawyers strongly recommended that this should be a countywide vote instead of a city vote to get it to pass.

The Mayor, Padres, and the Hoteliers were dead set against this measure. They want a contiguous expansion. The reason for the county vote are in these numbers from 2006. Here is the Season Ticket Holders by the city which they reside. There are 18,562 season ticket holders in the City, There is 8,498 in North County, South Bay has 5,248 and LA Orange County and Riverside at 13,731. This failed plan from 2009 to 2012 was called The East Village Plan. It was reborn word for word in 2017 and just renamed as Measure C. Measure C was already tried and failed badly with great opposition. With the NFL lockout looming at that time and the NFL redevelopment money dried up. Mark Fabiani went on 1090am radio on April 28,2011. “San Diego economy is poor and the budget is poor.” Exactly, what he wanted the NFL to hear.

Lies and mistrust throughout the years showed no greater than a poll conducted by the UT on Dec 17, 2009. It found that 71% are against using public money for a stadium. 26% support it and 3% are unsure. 71% of San Diego refuse to help build a stadium for Dean. Dean would say there is a lack of support for a stadium here. No,There is a lack of support for you Dean Spanos.

Glimmers of hope , a cardinal sin — and 2015

As Norv Turner job soon became Mike McCoy new job and AJ Smith became Tom Telesco. There was a sense of hope growing amongst the fans. That was until a filthy rich Rams owner made his case for buying parcel land in LA. Mark Fabaini met with new San Diego Mayor Faulconer and Scott Sherman in their downtown offices in early 2014. Mark tells the gentleman to take their time. “There is no sense of urgency.” Given that information, the Mayor announced a Stadium Task Force to help find a solution for a stadium in San Diego that would be fair to the tax payers. Save Our Bolts the fan group dedicated to trying and keep the Chargers in San Diego held its first rally the same day outside of where the Mayor was giving his speech. Even though Mark said no urgency and that the team was agnostic about a location. Mark Fabiani began a year long full on assault carpet bombing of fans, city officials and everything else San Diego after the Mayor State of the City address. Soon Dean Spanos and the Raiders Mark Davis began to start sleeping together in Carson, Ca. Working together to share a stadium in Carson. A cardinal sin to Charger fans was being proposed by the two rivals. It was unthinkable to Charger fans to share anything with the Raiders except for fist a cuffs.

2015 was a fun year with all the events that Save Our Bolts put on that year. Fans needed a release and to know their voice was heard. I think we provided that platform to them. The 9 volunteers included Adam Day Jim Steeg and spokesperson Tony Manolatos. It was simply a outline for the talks to get going. But the team walked away from the table and wasn’t coming back.NFL executive Eric Grubman came out and demanded money upfront for the stadium. The NFL and the Chargers were somehow on life support. They did an amazing job in 4 108 days. They even paid out of their pockets to hold a forum of Q-A at the Q. 4,000 fans showed up to just be heard finally.

Mark wrote the mayor after CSAG was announced with his 4 principles to guide them. The team added a website only for the 9 members of CSAG with documentions and information that they accumulated throughout the years especially working on MV. Its been rumored CSAG never logged into that website to access the information.

1. Resist political pressure to just throw something together for the sake of putting something together

2. The team won’t take part of anything for political cover for elected officials. Nov 2016 a ballot graveyard with so many measures.

3. Any proposal should go through a real world stress test. If it cant pass 67% its useless and waste of time without all the council and Mayor support and campaigning for. Don’t try and give a half baked effort get around 67. PSL should not be depended on. This market you cant sell PSL. Padres have shown any effort is worthless.

Mark was saying was we are not giving up LA option no matter what. sucking up to Carmen Policy with Raiders in Carson.

2015 I think took more out of the fan base than any year or event in Charger history.

Emotionally fans were just getting numb to it all. It was no longer about the on field wins and losses. It was a feeling of being beat up. It was just going on for way to damn long. Dean stayed silent as a coward would in 2015. Fabiani ripped your heart out every chance he could get. The sad thing is Dean never saw the fans giving more of themselves than any sports fans could give. They took days off from work to attend press conferences. Gaining national attention as SOB was on ESPN national radio shows USA Today and Monday Night Football. Dolphins fans came down before the last game to support Save Our Bolts with a rally of 300 Dolphins fans protesting at Charger Complex. Bills Mafia a group of Bills Fans had signs in the stands saying Save Our Bolts. The Packers and Vikings and so many different teams lending their support to Charger fans. There is a song called “Love the one you’re with.” Might be a good song for Dean to listen too especially now.

It looked terrible as the Dean and Mark headed out to the Houston Owners Meetings. We hoped for a miracle and that day a miracle was granted. The NFL sent the Rams to LA and Oakland and SD home 1 more time. That night we all gathered for a party at the Tilted Kilt. It was a year full of bad news and heartache. Being told over and over again what we were doing was useless. For one night we celebrated like we won a Playoff game. However, The future of SD and the Chargers look bleak still.

What should have happened

REWIND 1 YEAR back to the Mayor State of the City address. Here what should have happened.

A chair was empty at these meetings. An adult was needed to seperate the two at times. A leader was missing. Instead of CSAG I wanted Jim Steeg named stadium CZAR. Given full power and authority to anything and everything. The NFL would have side stepped Fabiani lies for Steeg honesty. The NFL knew and respected Jim from his years of work in NY as the man who made the SB an event from a game.Steeg worked 35 years for the NFL.g making. The city and the team trusted Jim. Jim knew how to get things done. He was honored as Special Event Hall of fame. Jim was living in SD at this time. Smartest thing Dean ever did was hire Jim in 2004 as chief executive officer COO.

He committed to a family section at the games. Season ticket sales exploded from 20,000 to 50,000. From November 2004 until April 2010, Steeg was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the NFL’s San Diego Chargers, where he was in charge of all business operations for the team. In his time with the team, Steeg worked to enhance the fan’s game-day experience at Qualcomm Stadium, and in 2007, the Chargers were named the “Most Fan Friendly NFL franchise” by Fans Voice.com. He spearheaded the team’s transition in hosting training camp at Chargers Park. He headed the team’s outreach into the Hispanic, military and neighboring communities in Orange and Riverside counties and Mexico, as well as improved Chargers’ alumni relations. He worked to bolster the team’s community outreach programs.

On the business side, he developed new and stronger relationships with the team’s TV and radio partners; initiated a drive to redesign and add content to the team’s website; led the team into record participation in social media platforms, launched the total redesign of the team’s uniform and logo designs, and oversaw the team’s 50th Anniversary celebration.
During his tenure, the team’s revenue streams grew through sponsorships, stadium concessions, merchandise and parking, as well as record sales of tickets, club seats and suites. Concession and merchandise per capitas were among the highest in the NFL. The Chargers sold out 48 straight games under his guidance

Of course to expect anything from this Mayor and Dean Spanos but disappointment would be foolish.

The NFL deciding the team’s fate
Three NFL owners head to the NFL Owners meetings in Houston to decide the fate and history of three cities. Rams, Raiders and Charger fans await to hear their fate. The choice was Rams Stan Kroenke 2.6 billion dollar sports and entertainment vision that fit the NFL dream of having the NFL Draft, .com, digital team and the NFL Network all in one place with restaurants and other amenities. Stan was a better businessman and his proposal is privately financed with the protection of his 11 billion dollar net worth.

The sentimental choice was the good partner in Dean Spanos who wants a 1.7 billion dollar project on a toxic landfill in Carson, Ca with the Raiders. The thought was Dean brought the big guns in Carmen Policy and Bob Iger. Jerry Richardson ( Panthers owner ) was a big supporter and told Dean they had the votes and this was a done deal.

The NFL exit strategies for all three cities were already planned and operational. Poke holes into the existing cities financing plans. To hold public town hall meetings to “Take the hits” off of the owners in that market. Enter NFL Executive Eric Grubman. He would visit the existing markets and later would hold a Town Hall Forum in the 3 cities to “Hear from the fans” It was a fucking dog and pony show.

One thing about when you get 32 billionaires in a room making decisions it goes fast and to the point. Sentiments go out the window for profit and who makes us revenue? Jerry Jones spoke on behalf of Kroenke and belittled what Dean thought was his ticket to LA Bob Iger. JJ joked about owning him then Paul Allen spoke. He said look at the 2 projects. Why are we here? There is nothing to compare. That was it. It was all over for Dean’s little Carson idea.

Dean as usual misjudged the Owners intentions. As soon as it went to a secret ballot they left Dean and his dream in the dust 21-11. The Owners raved about Kroenke vision and they trust him. So now Dean got an option for oneyear to go be the second team in Inglewood and pay rent $1.00 year to Stan. How could Dean come back to San Diego a city he shit on for an entire year? He had to suck it up. That night Jerry Jones and Kroenke dined at Vallone’s in Houston. Dean went up to his suite for the rest of the night wondering what the hell just happened? Owners who voted against Dean was Jerry Jones, Jeff Lurie, Woody Johnson, Stephen Ross and Dan Snyder.

The relocation fee will be 550 million to 650 million. The first check has to be written at the end of the 2018 season. That check goes out annually for 10 years at 65 million dollars. Dean decided to give San Diego one last chance to get the stadium deal done.

The NFL wants LA but does LA want the NFL? If not, can San Diego forgive the past year of Dean wanting to take their team from them? Will the citizens or the politicians even trust Dean? He got bitch slapped in Houston for being who we already knew he was. A poor business man who is incapable of a forward vision thinking leader. The plane ride home with Mark Fabiani must have been fun for sure. The decision was made to do a citizen initiative for a Downtown stadium. With the option of LA in his hands. Dean could go all out. Give me everything I want in Downtown or I’m leaving for LA. They already had the plans for the East Village from 2009. They renamed it Measure C.

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