Face It Chargers Fans, Move to LA Is the Right Move

In case you guys didn't know, there have been advancements in bringing an NFL team to Los Angeles. The Coliseum, where the USC Trojans currently play their football games, would house a team for the first few years of the team's tenure in Los Angeles while a shiny, new stadium gets built. 

The team most likely to make the jump to Los Angeles? The San Diego Chargers, whose current stadium—Qualcomm, or "The Q" as most residents here call it—is absolutely garbage.

San Diego Chargers fans will hate me for this, but let's hope it happens. If you want nothing else for the Chargers but success, the move to Los Angeles would be beneficial as hell.

Because last year—and the year before that—games were blacked out regularly. As a bro who roots for the Chargers and lives in San Diego at the same time, this ticked me off to no end. I know damn well that the team is capable of selling out thanks to their success the past few years. Sadly, no one wants to pop out money for a ticket. (Granted, I have never been to a Chargers game; I'm a poor college kid that doesn't have $100 to blow on a game. If I had that kind of dough, I'd throw some the Bolts' way, for sure.)

In Los Angeles, the dense population is perfect. The team will get to sell out their games regularly because of the millions of people that live there, not because they like the team, particularly. Rather, the culture in Los Angeles kind of resembles this dialog:

Dude 1: "I'm bored as hell, man."

Dude 2: "Yeah, bro, I feel you. Lazy Sunday."

Dude 1: "Hell yeah. Is there anything to do?"

Dude 2: "I don't know. There's a Chargers' game tonight." 

Dude 1: "No kidding. Let's go, see what's good."

Dude 2: "Let's do it."

(NOTE: This is probably how I would talk to my buddy.)

That's it. Down in LA, it's Raider Nation, but the city has no football team. They've been itching for one, so they'll sell out often, even when the team's doing horribly.

And the money...holy hell, the money.

The Chargers' front office is going to make bank. The Spanos family have to be class A idiots—because, you know, they're rich—to not move to LA. The television deals alone are going to shoulder a good chunk of the load; just look at the Los Angeles Lakers' deal with Time Warner, which is for 20 years and has an approximate value of $3 billion. $3 BILLION. That may sound to chump change to you, but that'll buy me a hell of a lot of Chad Henne stickers, for damn sure.

The Chargers might not get that kind of money for a TV deal, but that's what the market is like; everything is highly competitive and the Chargers are still a team in the most popular professional sports league in the United States.

Instantly, the Chargers become a large market team. And this helps in the football aspect, too. What NFL player wouldn't want to play in the largest market in the United States? Playing for the Clippers or Lakers in basketball garners instant recognition, so why wouldn't playing for the Chargers in Los Angeles do the same?

There are far too many factors that work in favor of moving the Chargers to Los Angeles. The benefits are far too numerous. The only negative is leaving behind one of the weakest fanbases in the NFL (the Chargers ranked 15th in popularity, proportional to market size).

If Dean Spanos is smart, he'll ship the team out of San Diego and into the largest market in the United States: Los Angeles, CA.