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January 10, 2012

Chargers staying in San Diego for 2012 ... but you knew that

This shouldn't really be news to anyone, but since everybody else seems to think it's news: The San Diego Chargers have announced that they'll be staying in San Diego this fall, and not moving to ... um, a stadium in Los Angeles that won't be built for at least another three years, if ever?

The Chargers have an annual window in which they can opt out of their lease by paying off remaining bonds on the Qualcomm Stadium expansion (about $24 million currently), a clause that mostly serves as an opportunity to create headlines every winter about how the team could be moving if it wanted to. Barring either an unexpected breakthrough in the Chargers' plans for a stadium attached to the San Diego Convention Center — which, as ESPNLA points out, the convention center wants no part of — or the sudden achievement of this, expect to see more of the same headlines next January.

COMMENTS

Excellent lunar project. Think of the jobs and development opportunities it will create!

Posted by Floormaster Squeeze on January 10, 2012 12:02 PM

Not only that, FMS, but the team that moves there has the entire planet - err, satellite, to themselves. Think of the revenue generating opportunities! Although the absence of a local municipal government to extort funds from might prove to be an obstacle...

Posted by John Bladen on January 10, 2012 02:11 PM

Actually the team changed their minds on the convention center at their announcement with the mayor. They are no longer pursuing the joint convention center/stadium plan unless the standalone convention center falls through. They'll pursue funding by other means. Still leaves the question of what means those are, but the convention center idea is dead for now.

Posted by Dan on January 10, 2012 06:08 PM

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