If the Chargers moved to Carson ...

[Drake744]

Originally Posted by OwlAndSparrow

Loving the Broncos makes you evil. That's a scientific fact. They were evil even before they got Peyton Manning.

The analogy with the water issue is that many people don't care about the public good if they think it might affect the amount of local benefits for them. People try to make it about tax dollars, but it's really that they want more money spent on things they care immediately about. Just like the rich people who say that water laws are for everyone else. They care about their immediate surroundings, not the community as a whole.

Whether the Chargers care about individual people is irrelevant. Most of them are probably bad people, anyway. Rooting for our gladiators in our national sport is still a perfectly valid thing to want in America. We don't want to be the only major city in the U.S. without a team in the most popular sport. If it costs me a tiny amount of tax money that I was going to pay anyway, I'm not going to complain about that any more than I would complain about tax money going to roads I'll never drive on or bridges I'll never cross or parks I'll never visit or farmers whose food goes overseas.

When I walk around and see Bolt decals and flags all over the place, when I hear families cheering loudly from their living rooms when Rivers throws a touchdown, when I hear people complaining about the draft, when I see the current majestic structure in Mission Valley, I think of San Diego. I think of civic pride. It's the kind of thing that would have made me and my children happy for decades to come, whether the team is good or not.

We're not going to have that now. We're losing something beautiful because some spoiled brat who inherited his money wants to squeeze a few extra pennies. That's a shame.

Yes.

[1AngryTaxPayer]

Well, unless there is some miracle we can probably consider it a done deal. Spano wanted the downtown freebie or nothing all along. Screw him and the other greedy owners.