THE AGONY OF BEING A CHARGER FAN OR EX FAN IN 2019

  For a team that hasn't won a championship in 58 years, the Chargers fan base sure has a lot of qualifications to join. Ever since the move, the fan base split into separate groups. The old school Crips and Bloods reuniting their rivalry resemble the Chargers fans even as the team is entering the Playoffs for the first time since 2013.

   You can't even go on Twitter anymore without the constant back and forth dick pissing contest. One side strongly believes Dean screwed the city of San Diego and to support even the players is to support Dean Spanos. They point to every signal they get that LA is a colossal failure and the NFL quietly is planning a return to San Diego. The other side believes equally strongly that you should support your team no matter what. What happen happened and it's all about the players now. 

   There can be no right or wrong because mostly the experiment in LA is not Pass-Fail. It is not reacting every Monday when ratings come out and pictures of the same soccer field are posting two different scenes both supporting each's argument.

   As for me, I understand both sides. (That why each side thinks I'm an asshole who is supporting the other.) I believe after months of studying what transpired between the City of San Diego and The Chargers that you can pick a time frame where both are to blame EQUALLY. 

   Don't tell me the Chargers are solely to blame when at one point San Diego had 4 Mayors in 5 years!!!. One resignation was 5 months after being elected over an 11th-hour candidate. His replacement was forced to resign 3 days later as acting mayor with charges of wire fraud, Conspiracy and extortion were leveled. I'm not even mentioning Bob Filner sex escapades and Dick Murphy resignation. Try getting a deal done when the city bankrupt because of the slimy politicians Strippergate, Pension Scandal, Maureen O'Connor, Susan Golding, Cunningham arrest and of course the hoteliers fucking the taxpayers at every turn. Who do you do the deal with? The janitor at City Hall has the most seniority!!

   Don't tell me the city to blame when Dean and his father raped the city for 37 million dollars between 1997-2003, Didn't market the team during that time period and in fact they made MORE money off the empty seats then they would have if they sold them. This exploded when the team had the city take out a 60 million dollar bond where the city was rewarded with a 1-15 season, moving training camp to Carson, hiring Mark Fabiani and raising ticket prices on what was left of the fanbase. THAT WAS JUST THE YEAR 2002! Fans still packed the Q averaging 61,000 fans. Dean teams were 35-62 during these 6 years. 

   The Chargers acquired a ton of new fans in 2006 and under the Marty years. They have heard about the stadium saga but doesn't comprehend the specifics of why we got to where we are. The problem is now you have people like Ryan Russell and Josh Albrektson along with twitter Doc Malibu who only want to flame the fires and speak in assumptions and statements with no truth to back their spewing off.    Josh is a great example I will single out for reference.

  Josh is on Facebook and Twitter. Some think Josh is a paid troll by the team. I assure you he is not. To be employed by a NFL team even quietly you have to be good at what you do. Josh is not. The Man from New York who is a former Jets fan then flipped to the Chargers after the relocation spends numerous hours everyday calling the former fans "Cry babies, losers and pathetic." His whole social media account is devoted to name calling and insulting ex charger fans. He has been accused of going way overboard while calling people jobs, wives and always trying to attack respected sports journalist like Scott Kaplan, Marty Caswell, Derek Togerson and Bernie Wilson. Sadly, each side is filled with these parasites. 

  How the hell did we get to where a New Yorker is a respectable source of information? It's social media negatives. Just throw partial truths with a slant that backs your side and claim it is fact. Josh Albrektson is the perfect example of what the Donald Trump era of lies, deceit  propaganda can be successful. I have been guilty of the back and forth as well. I pledge to be done with it. I can't stand what has happened to this fan base.

   Here is my take. There needs to be a truth. 1. The NFL is NOT going to force Dean to sell. The NFL is not happy that Dean took their own offer to relocate but also is not unhappy with Dean either. The Chargers in LA is not a failure! The NFL knew after over 20 years that this would be a smooth transition no matter who the team was.The Rams and Raiders were at the bottom of NFL attendance is 1993. The Rams were 19-45 in the 90's. Here is a link to an opinion piece by Mike Penner of the LA Times dated May 1, 1994. http://articles.latimes.com/1994-05-01/sports/sp-52545_1_oakland-raiders. 

The struggle is recently outlined by Bill Plaschke of the LA Times here https://1360sports.iheart.com/featured/the-mark-and-rich-show/content/2019-01-02-bill-plaschke-the-chargers-havent-made-a-mark-at-all-in-la/?Keyid=socialflow&Sc=editorial&Pname=local_social&fbclid=IwAR2yWHX5CbsdTX-yV5fto0mX2e7WF9cNrd4HEJhy3En00WJnwhmDg6pDAUg

   The statement the team can't sellout a 7,500 seat soccer stadium is false. All the games but 1 in 2 years has been sold out. The NFL could give a rats ass if they show up or not. They care even less about who's team they are rooting for. The Raiders are exploring playing in the S.F. Giants ball yard in 2019. There is no pass-fail. It's incomplete. No grade will be given until Inglewood opens in 2020. The NFL is much more concerned with a pending lockout after the new CBA expires then jumping to conclusions about the Chargers temporary home in Carson.

  To say LA has no Charger fans is an insult to the LA fans that exist. Why would a fan from another city buy the Rams PSL when they can buy the Chargers for $1,000 less. Did Dean fuck Stan on SSL? Yes, he did. It is immoral as hell. It's borderline predatory pricing. But guess what? It's also called outsmarting the Stan. Both teams keep 18.75% of the SSL sold. The rest goes to construction. Josh claims the Chargers made more in Carson in 2017 then at Qualcomm in 2016. Again, putting out false information. Just liked when he claimed 1090am is going out of business. That is 100% untrue. Ratings for 1090 have declined since the Chargers left for Los Angeles nearly two years ago. There is competition from two other stations, 1360-AM (flagship for SDSU) and 97.3-FM (Padres), but 1090 remains the highest-rated among the trio

   Taking a piece of information and slanting it to work to your advantage. He traveled to London to see the team. He likes to hangout with Bolt Pride and Die Hards Bolt Club. That's cute. Maybe you two can sing a duet together

You can find Josh at Thunder Alley. Whoopie Doo. You hang out with guys who wear helmets on their head. I've been a fan since 1981. I have devoted years to the team and the fans. You know? I'm no more of a fan than the fan created in 2006. 

   No fan has the right to judge another fan fandome. No fan has the right to tell another fan how to feel about the move. But you do have a right to take part in a truth between the dividing fanbase. The Chargers are in the Playoffs. I'm going to root for them Sunday morning. It won't be with the same passion as when they were in San Diego but I still and always have supported the team even though I break the front office balls all the time. I have that right and so do you to do what you want and shouldn't be attacked for doing so. Rise up Josh and Doc Malibu of the worlds.

  Your punishment if you don't is years of Dan Henning, Ryan Leaf, David Boston and Craig Whelihan for the next 10 years! I want a Drew Brees and Philip Rivers Super Bowl.  That way I can complain about that to Dean as well. #Chargerfantruth movement.

   To save everyone the time I know. I'm a bandwagon fake fan. 

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