It has not been a good week or so for the owner of the former San Diego and now Los Angeles Chargers.
A weekend ago, Dean Spanos watched as his team, in typical fashion lately, blew a good chance to be in the NFL playoffs.
And then this last weekend, he had to watch as the Los Angeles Rams, whose owner built the new So-Fi stadium that the Chargers share in name only and whose team is L-A’s favorite football team by far, ascended to the NFC Championship game with a decent chance to make it to the Super Bowl next month which will be played in L-A where there will be few Charger fans around.
That “Fight for L-A” marketing campaign the Chargers waged right after Spanos abandoned San Diego and moved North must be a painful memory for him now because the Chargers play mostly in front of visiting teams’ fans.
And now just a couple of days after the Chargers owner was sued by some other members of the Spanos family who say he diverted money meant for them when he moved the team to San Diego, he and the NFL are being sued by a San Diego business owner over the Chargers relocation.
The former San Diego city attorney who filed the lawsuit suit Monday says that Spanos broke his word about being in financial hardship when his team was worth at least one billion dollars when he announced the team would leave for L-A.
These lawsuits and legal problems may never mean San Diego gets back its NFL that team that called the city home for more than 50 years, but for fans, many still bitter over the Chargers bolting for L-A, they may see it as justice.
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