What Happened to Qualcomm Stadium? ABANDONED? 

Lol. F Dean Spanos that’s right!

Book em Deanno!

Who’s Dan Spanos? I think you meant to say Dean lol

You should have included all of the proposals for keeping the team in San Diego. There were many plans submitted including my own and the team did not make any effort to keep the team in San Diego. They kept giving everyone who submitted plans the run-around.

San Diego SUPER CHARGERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

San diego superchargers, i miss that saying

Ppl forget the clippers existed in SD too

Raiders should've only been the team moved to LA, where they're at least wanted

Many people from SD didn't give a shit about the Chargers. Most fans i know are from the valley, like myself. San Diego Charger fans took them for granted and came back.

@@Venom3254 There's only fake fans in LA. They only like them for aesthetic purposes like color and logo. I know gangsters who "LOVE" them and rock all their gear but yet can't name set of players beside the occasional Jerry Rice and Charles Woodson. Jerry Rice... i think this shouldn't even get a pass. But to each their own.

He needs to sell the team and take them back to San Diego. LA could careless about the Chargers and they were started there in 1960 for 1 year.

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@@boogitybear2283 SD is a small market. Any teams that move there would lose value.

Sorry , But that is untrue. Spanish tried for over 20 years to get a new stadium in the San Diego. The Chargers and NFL offered 800 million towards a new stadium. Politics , placement of stadium and a Nonsense vote by the city on Gotel tax rates ended it. He never wanted to leave. The truth needs to be told.

@@georgecampbell302 You are correct George. These, probably young bucks have no reference to the history or the facts. They continue to swallow the hate from the ignorant without any truthful perspective. The Spanos submitted at least 10 proposals to the city. I recall one in the’90s that would have been 100% privately funded if only the city would allow the team to use bay front land the city was given for nothing by the Navy because the Navy closed a slew of bay front acreage. As I recall the city accepted an alternative proposal from some other private developer/military equipment manufacturer instead of the Chargers. Then there was the National City proposal, the Oceanside proposal, the Chula Vista proposal & others that never came together. Besides, the Chargers are the ONLY current professional football team to originate in Los Angeles. They’re the ONLY truly Southern California NFL team in existence. The Rams came from Cleveland & we all know where the nomadic Raiders came from.

Do you ever got a picture with the legendary San Diego chicken

@@azuredusk991 No, I wish I did, but it was work. We were not allowed to do stuff like that.

😭

Should have invested that money into a mutual fund and it would still be growing today. Folks piss away fortunes chasing a fantasy that is not real. Reality check.......GET REAL with yourself FIRST.

Semper Gumby bro. I was an 0311 at Pendleton 88 to 92. Went to a baseball game there after Desert Storm.

Yep

It doesn't benefit the Chargers or San Diego for the team to return. San Diego isn't a sports town and it's history has shown the people there won't support a sports team both in land development and financially. It was only after the team left that they passed a sports conplex resolution. Attendance was down and fans from opposing teams would take over the stadium way before Dean took over the team, unless the team was actually good. This is something you don't see with a fan base that doesn't have other major sports teams in the area besides the Padres. The Chargers are making more money in LA and lets be honest they have the same amount of fan attendance as they did in San Diego. Anyone who lives in the area knows that the Chargers used to their advantage the proximity to the Naval base to fill the stadium as they do now with opposing fans to fill SoFi. The reality is the fan base was not growing and the lack of support was evident and though San Diegonians may be bitter, it's the truth. Just look at the lack of support now for the Aztecs, when just 4 years ago the city and so called fans promised to support heavily and even before covid they couldn't fill arenas. Lets not forget about Petco, when the Padres crippled at the end, fans didnt come support and opposing teams took over. There are to many transplants for San Diego to grow a fan base for any sports team, which is why teams always leave.

The NFL makes billions of dollars in revenue every year. They can pay for one themselves.

STL had their $790M back from Kronke (it’s nothing too him tho)

@@dansal4726 SD sports also has a curse too

Thanks for the insight, I think you hit the nail on the head!

I agree. I can't tell you how many games I would attend and our chargers fan base was completely outnumbered. Fans didn't speak up until it was too late, and fans never attended the games. Our strong military presence brought alot of outsiders that never left.

Do yourself a favor and leave san diego and california. Best decision i ever made.

@@williamharrison54 not everyone lives the life that you do. Happy leaving California is better for you. I have deep roots here and alot of family here as well. I make a good living and I love it here. I'm not going anywhere.

I mean, I'm loyal to the Padres, since ownership never showed open contempt for the fanbase in the same way the Chargers' ownership did. I also used to love going to games at Petco Park when the Pads were really bad, since they were practically giving upper deck tickets away.

I'm there with you Tom!!! 3rd Generation San Diegan, grew up in Mission Hills. It was the centerpiece and pride of San Diego. Huge accomplishment for the city! I went to school with the Hope kids. It was a beautiful design. ... I saw the SoFi stadium picture today in the LA Times. They have steps!!! Oops, Ever seen a drunk person or a large amount of people try to exit of a stadium with steps. Eeek!!! Frank was imaginary when he design the four huge ramp rounds on the outside corners.

I was an Ozzie's Marching Charger from 1962-1966. We played the halftime shows on the field at San Diego "Balboa" Stadium from 1962-1965 when construction began on Jack Murphy Stadium. Ozzie's Band was on hand for the groundbreaking ceremony with Mayor Frank Curran. How old do you think it makes me feel to have played for the groundbreaking when I was 12 and see it gone now forever. The Hospital I was born in (Navy Hospital in Balboa Park...ALSO gone) it's like my life is getting erased before I'm even dead!

Many cities went with multipurpose Stadiums and they all decided to go back to having a regular baseball stadium and a regular football stadium, each that were better designed for their sport. Plus, they all wanted these luxury boxes for corporations to wine and dine customers in. That’s big money. It’s all about the money and cities and fans usually wind up on the short end of the stick. I personally think it’s stupid to have two NFL teams playing in the same city and in the same stadium. The Stadium has to be a generic stadium and has to be redecorated every week. It’s idiotic.

Remember “The Murph”

D3 ز

Broncos are a goot team to root for let's go Broncos

Brock’s country let’s ride

No they don't. They're the only NFL team to originate in L.A., that's where they're from and that's where they'll stay. Wait for an expansion team to come your way.

@@sjdrifter72 Only for one season. The reason they left for San Diego was they were struggling to attract fans. The Chiefs were the Dallas Texans from 1960 to 1963 before moving to Kansas City to become the Chiefs.

@@davidochoa774 that was like 60 years ago dude baseball was the most popular sport back in that time 😂 im sure it was hard to attract football fans around that time football didn’t get really popular till like the 70’s-80’s

There LA CHARGERS They started here for 1 year and they should’ve never left but there back now to stay.

Yup, coming west on the 8 then as you stated on the 15 and the 805.

The coinage Fuck You, Spanos was born.

@@rxrinaz6536 wrong. The fix was in from the get-go. Spanos wanted out. He never acted in good faith. San Diego was willing to give him a new stadium in the existing Mission Valley/QUALCOMM space. He wanted downtown because the property would be worth more. When it came up for a vote, only San Diego residents were allowed to vote on it, not the county. There are plenty of Chargers fans who live in the county who didn’t even get a say. By that time, charger fans were fed up with Spanos constantly threatening to leave and the teams perennial under performance, not to mention extraordinarily high ticket prices to go to an outdated stadium.

Sharing a stadium with a team in the Super Bowl....the Chargers fail again.

@@ricardotheronan5885 a team that’s been to the Super Bowl two times in the past three years. Rams won the “Fight for LA.” Chargers are a homeless franchise with no fanbase or home field advantage.

@@rxrinaz6536 what the hell are you talking about? Spanos wanted a downtown stadium because the real estate would’ve been worth much more than Mission Valley. That’s what we voted on in Measure C! It was literally called Downtown Stadium Initiative. It was never going to pass because voters didn’t want to give him any money and realized the cluster fuck that downtown would become with another stadium, not to mention all of the infrastructure that would need to be added to accommodate it.

I would have loved to snag a piece of it 😢

@@massivepassive yeah man I wish I could of got a seat at least.

we hopped the fence Thanksgiving week 2020, two separate times, and explored the whole thing top to bottom. I made a point of filling my pockets with concrete chunks from Section 39 Field Level, Row 10 where my family's season ticket seats had been for so many years. I grabbed a few signs and a few seat backs from the pile on the field too. I did get a yellow seat from the press level, pretty proud of that.

@@TheThunderbird63 I wish I could of done that! Right on man!

@@WARPONY1973 I didn't know until after the event that they DID sell Seats! I would have loved to get something from there other than all the pics I took before, during and after demo. It was a sad countdown. Bit by bit. Being there when the last bit came down was a true tear jerker for many of use who were there watching.

F Dean Spanos

The 1984 expansion on the east side of the stadium was largely because of his demands once he took over from Gene Klein (although Gene Klein had been trying to get the Murph expanded back in 1978-79). I don't think he paid for that one either, or the scoreboard upgrades in 1985-86. The 1997 enclosure was also largely because of him; since he failed to get a new stadium, expansion was the next best thing, and worsened an already decaying stadium. If they had left it as it was during the Jack Murphy era, and maintained/updated it, it would still be a great football stadium to this day, except for the bad baseball-oriented sightlines. Spanos is, always has been, and always will be, a slimy greedy fuck. Just like his family was back in the day ripping off farm workers with sandwiches.

All that venting and you'll STILL not steal anyone's team away ever! 😆

@@GN702, I don’t want anyones team. Including the Chokers, even if they got new ownership and moved back to San Diego. I hate the NFL and all professional sports now. I have a lot more enjoyment now doing other things. But I was never really a huge sports fan in the past either though. I liked the Chargers at one time but have always hated the Spanos family because they were and still are terrible owners. But in 2011 or 2012 I predicted exactly what would happen in how they would move to Los Angeles. They would either wait until the stadium expansion was paid off or the amount owed was drastically decreased, set up a half hearted plan that was intentionally designed to fail and then leave. And then when Kroenke moved, made plans to build his top 3 stadium in the world and had to allow the Chargers to move in, then everything was a forgone conclusion. Of course now with Dean only having to pay $1.00 a year in rent there is no real incentive for him to actually have to do anything there to get fans either so Kroenke got screwed in that deal but I think he’s okay with it because had the Raiders moved in then there is a huge possibility that they would have been more popular than the Rams. But trust me, I don’t care where the Chargers play. I no longer live back home and escaped from Commiefornia long ago. I just hate the Spanos family and truly do hope the worst for them because they are huge pieces of crap!

Damn have a drink bro

Don't. Best thing that could have happened. It was an eye sore.

Spanos can pay rent in LA for all we care.

theyre almost done with a brand new stadium for the Aztecs

Don't be, they go what they deserved

There's a new modern stadium now and chargers suck ass

Yes DEAN.

You are correct. He is persona non grata in San Diego. He burned that bridge and this city would never, ever welcome him back. His only recourse now is to continue to fail in LA and pass that losing tradition to his sons, or to sell the team to a more competent owner.

The first dumbest move for a SD team to LA was the Clippers back in the 80s. NBA didn’t even approved the relocation to LA at all yet did it anyways.

@@therealjaystone2344 No argument there. The Clippers think building a new arena next to SoFi will get them out of the Lakers shadow, but it won’t. If they knew what was good for them, the Clippers would move to Seattle before the Kings beat them to it.

@@PaulMcElligott I think the Thunder moving back to Seattle would be better since OKC is cursed. Clippers can go back to SD.

This is so utterly false. And no the billionaires can't afford to build them on their own since they cost over a billion to make these days. AS for the rest of your false post, I can present examples showing that poublic investment is a good thing. The Milwuakee Bucks, are a great example of this. They got together with the city of Milwaukee, Milwaukee County and the state of Wisconsin to build Fiserv Forum. That has been a boon for the city as it has started a re-development of downtown and now produced a title. IT is also hilaroious that you use the Patriots to make your case when they had almost all of their success AFTER they tore down Foxboro Stadium and built Gillette Stadium. Bob Kraft was able to turn his team into a powerhouse because he made more money made from Gillette Stadium than he ever did at the Pats previous home.

doged...

Taxpayer funded stadiums are the most crooked scam ever. Not only does the taxpayer fund the stadium. Than they can go and get gouged for parking, concessions, and ticket prices. In the stadium that they funded. Plus, don’t forget, every 10-15 years that team can threaten to move if the taxpayer doesn’t fund renovations too. There are ways to do it correctly do a partial or fully taxpayer paid stadium. But, no nfl owner would go for it nowadays.

Warriors also did this once getting a new ownership group.

That is not true California has no heart for there teams look at the Raiders they never struggled getting things done so glad they moved out of that shit state Florida never has the problems with NFL teams that California does and yeah they had three garbage teams until brady went to the bucks the Rams are good at the moment yet they are at or over the cap with no young players so they are soon gonna suck and the chargers have always been decently good in the best division in football San Diego can build a shitty baseball stadium and close down all the good restaurants on the ocean next to it and put Anthony's out of business and your shitty city can't build a stadium

That stadium is a dump dude. I went 6-7 yrs bk, place is trash. The lions have a better stadium.

@@_nick_d Spanos was negelcting the stadium on purpose. ever since he inherited the team, he wanted to move the Chargers to LA

@@ernestogastelum9123 yep, he could have remodeled it but the greedy bastard was eyeing a bigger market. F&&k Spanos

Took the words out of my mouth, this is exactly how I feel about the whole situation too.

Why you lying DOH my guy

Yes, I remember that!!!

Yeah I remember going to sold out games when Mcguire and Sosa were chasing the HR record

I was just going through a scrapbook and found my brother and my father and i's ticket stubs to the very first Padre game in 1969 when they beat the Astros. Great memory

The same thing happened to the Orange Bowl in Miami. Lots of memories but the place was falling apart at the seams so they built Joe Robbie stadium!

Went to a game there, once. Was surprised by how “vintage it looked.

Dean Spanos rec'd millions to renovate Qualcomm stadium for his own profits, The Spanos family makes MILLIONS from the NFL TV contracts but for 34 yrs, Dean Spanos rarely invested in the city or the stadium ...Dean didnt even want to buy his own San Diego fans a new scoreboard. See the vintage pictures from the 80's to 2010 same old scoreboard. F-U Dean Spanos. LA is already seeing and experiencing a bottom level pro sports owner .

Steinbrenner hated the field in 98 during the WS.

Sir, first off. A big hearted Thank you for serving our country. I had always watched games on the TV, and I think I do remember the game you mention. What an honor to stand on that field once.

You said it best. The atmosphere. The tailgate and the heat of that place is iconic

@@geraldinebraun9266 thank you, it was an honor to serve 🇺🇸

@@adamburke6770 I appreciate it brother

I hear you as I lived in San Diego with my Aunt & Uncle from 1980-1981. I went to my one & only NFL game in December ‘80 to watch the Chargers play. One of the best times of my life.

I grew up with havingTony Gwynn and Randy Jones in Poway and I was a die hard Pads and Chargers fans because they were so much part of Poway’s culture

The Chargers are in dire need of a new owner.

Lions squeezed into this one as well.

@@LaBreeceTV lol they sure did. Winning the first he game ever at the Murph. Usually when the Lions are referred to in a video it's always a bad reason and that's the joy of being a Lions fan lol. Merry Christmas my friend

That's right and surround on each side with major accessibility.

I used to live in Tierrasanta, a couple of exits north of the stadium. I saw Tony Gwynn play. Plus, I saw a home run competition between Tony and his brother at San Diego Jack Murphy stadium befor a game. I think his brother was called Chris Gwynn, and played for SDSU’s baseball team….

I love that you still refer to it as the Murph. It will always be the Murph to me too. So many amazing memories there, including many of Tony Gwynn. He was truly the best and is so missed. He was the epitome of what every professional athlete should be.

That victory over Smu!

My dad and I used to do work for Tony and he was always such a cool guy and I also used to work for Discount Tire in Poway and Tony and Randy and other Chargers would always come in and were such great guys

I wasn't there for the Garvey HR, but there was a Jim Leyritz HR in the 98 postseason that had the Murph (I never called it anything different either) rocking. Not sure it was to the same extent but it was memorable to me. I was at Dodger Stadium for the Gibson World Series HR in '88 and that was most shaking I ever experienced at a ballpark.

The Sockers became the Yankees of indoor soccer, (13 championships)

I don't live there,but from the outside it looks like the Spanos family never was serious about staying in San Diego. I admit I catch myself sometimes saying San Diego Chargers.

San Diego is still a major sports town. You still have the Padres and one of the most exciting players in baseball Fernando Tatis Jr, so there's that. You still have San Diego State.

@@86byrdman LOL

St Louis didn’t keep their promises. They don’t deserve anything

False. Milwaukee's Fiserv Forum has been a big benefit to the general public because it has generated a food and entertainment development around it that the people have flocked to. People need to stop spreading this BS because it shows ignorance.

Yup the Padres have the City all for their lonesome self

@@l.u.rehuher3714 I feel bad for anyone who jumped on the Padres bandwagon last year. I don't bleed Padres colors, but I have followed them long enough to know that good things NEVER last. That collapse was epic. By the time September came along, the same people who ragged on me for not ditching the Chargers to join the Padres bandwagon fan started to not wear their Padres gear anymore lol.

@@mawile2468 San Diego has never won a champion in any sport lol

@@southsidecompton9668 The Chargers won one way back when. The Chargers are talented but underachieve, whereas the Padres have been defined by mediocrity. I don't even think they've reached double digit playoff appearances

When did SD Chargers win a title?

I used to do midnight drags there with the SDPD built car

Yikes

Right

I feel the same way about the Dallas Cowboys. After their owner (who I shall not name) got rid of Tom Landry I have never watched another game!! Kansas City Chiefs fan now due to living in Lubbock, Texas Tech & Patrick Mahomes.

My pops squad in the 80s