March 06, 2003
San Diego challenges Chargers "trigger"
San Diego Mayor Dick Murphy, in response to yesterday's move by the San Diego Chargers to initiate the "trigger clause" in their lease that would let them move out of town, has demanded financial records from both the team and the NFL to see whether the trigger conditions were legally met. (The conditions involve a complicated mechanism comparing team payroll to NFL revenues.) Meanwhile, city council members are taking an increasingly hard line against building a new stadium with public money: "The Chargers think the language means, 'We trigger, so let's talk about a new stadium,'" councilman Michael Zucchet told the San Diego Union-Tribune. "I certainly don't see it that way."
Posted by Neil deMause
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