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San Diego mayor is not too happy with the Chargers and their L.A. plan
The San Diego Chargers' threat to move to Los Angeles has moved into the all-important phase of politicians being publicly angered.
According to the San Diego Union-Tribune, San Diego mayor Kevin Faulconer said the city and fans were deceived by the team when it suddenly announced plans to build a stadium with the Oakland Raiders near Los Angeles if it doesn't get its own stadium deal done in San Diego.
We've all heard this song and dance before in other cities, but let's run it back for San Diego and Faulconer.
"The Chargers weren't being up front with San Diegans, they weren't being up front with their fans...That's not how you get things done," Faulconer said to the Union-Tribune. "We deserve an honest dialogue. What we saw speaks volumes about the true intentions and about what's been happening over the last few weeks."
Sounds bad, right? The Chargers are goners for sure now that they've deceived the mayor and the fans, no?
No.
"I'm more committed than ever to get this done" in San Diego, Faulconer told the Union-Tribune. "San Diegans deserve for the team to stay here."
The NFL's Los Angeles bluff, which it has been running at a 100 percent success rate for 20 years, is really aggressive this time. The joint statement between two teams with the stadium renderings for Carson, Calif., was a unique touch. Now they have two cities feeling pressure to get taxpayer money to fund a new stadium for incredibly rich owners. The people of San Diego HAVE to pay for a stadium now ... the Chargers showed actual stadium renderings, so they're serious folks!!!
Again, if the NFL wanted a team in Los Angeles, there would have been a team in Los Angeles long ago. The league prints money; it can afford to get that done. Now three teams are playing the L.A. card, because the Rams have their own separate bluff going on to get a new stadium in St. Louis.
Whether there's actually a team in Los Angeles anytime soon is another thing because it wouldn't surprise anyone if there are magically new plans in these cities to keep the teams there and keep the Los Angeles market open for the next time an NFL team needs leverage to extort tax dollars from its city for a new stadium.
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