America’s Finest City Deserves America’s Finest Stadium
The last time America’s finest city hosted a Super Bowl was in 2003, since then, the Super Bowl has been hosted in cities that are not up to par with San Diego’s weather and amenities. The Chargers needs a new stadium in this beautiful city of San Diego. Los Angeles could be very well a candidate to be the new home to the Chargers if San Diego can’t fully support the Chargers in time. San Diego is one of the longest tenured franchises in the NFL and also has one of the most outdated stadiums in the NFL, partially because it’s located in California, a state that believes funding shouldn’t be coming from the state’s pocketbook. Los Angeles hasn’t had a football team since the Raiders and the Rams left in 1995 and 1994, respectively, this city is hungrier than ever, hungrier than any other city in the NFL, perhaps even San Diego, and its pocketbook is very deep thanks in part by privately proposed stadiums of AEG and Ed Roski. Although Los Angeles has the second largest market in the nation and could find a way to fund a new the stadium, the Chargers should stay in San Diego and build a new stadium here because a proposal down town stadium in San Diego could rejuvenate the city’s economy, potential funding are available in multiple creative ways, the owners of the Chargers could profit more in San Diego than in Los Angeles, and more importantly the city could hosts other major events during the offseason.
The Chargers should stay and build a state of the art facility in San Diego because this city has a prolific capability of taking this Chargers franchise to another level of success while making this city better. According to the US Census records Los Angeles is one of the bigger markets in North America not named New York City, which stands to about 9.5 million people not including Orange County and its other surrounding counties that could potentially invest in ‘Los Angeles Chargers’. The city’s sports fan hasn’t rooted for a Los Angeles team since the hay days of Marcus Allen and Jerome Bettis of the Raiders and the Rams in the early 1990s. On the contrary, the Chargers have been in San Diego since the mid 1960’s. According to Forbes Magazine San Diego Chargers is the 10th most tenured franchise in the NFL and it has a solid following throughout the San Diego County, which has a population of 3.5 million people. Its franchise has a long rich history dating back from the days in AFL and it’s has been one of the most successful franchises in the regular season since 2003. The Chargers’ San Diego fan base may have a problem of not selling out enough tickets from time to time throughout the season, but the reason for that is the reflection of the current trying economy and its franchise management woes, which LA is fairly familiar too when their teams aren’t winning i.e. Clippers in the past decades or so, also the Rams, and Raiders franchises have each moved forward. Also, San Diego is a transplant city due to its location from the Mexican Border and its military presence. Many of the residents that are living in San Diego are not natives of San Diego but merely they’re from all over the country in which they root for their teams they have grew up watching.
The proposed downtown Los Angeles site by Anschutz Entertainment Group already has naming rights that is covered by Farmers Insurance for $20 million per year up to 30 years. Its stadium name would be called Farmers Field. If it goes according to the plan, the stadium should be shovel-ready by early June this year. And the speculated teams that are moving in the future are including the San Diego Chargers according to Los Angeles Times, although management has denied any rumors of the possibility of the franchise moving to Los Angeles because the Spanos family which owns ninety-six percent of the franchise according to Forbes Magazine, they are invested in the community of San Diego. One of the main reasons the