Pro Football HOFer Dan Fouts said that it is "embarrassing" that the Chargers have to play at StubHub Center, and that Chargers Chair Dean Spanos and the city of San Diego are "both to blame after negotiations for more than a decade over a new stadium fell flat," according to L.A.-based KNX-AM. Fouts said, “It is embarrassing, I think, for both the Chargers and the National Football League, to be playing in a 27,000-seat stadium." Fouts: “They couldn’t get together on a deal for a new stadium for over 15 years, so both sides have to share in the responsibility” (CBSLOCAL.com, 8/28).
NOT SO WARM & SUNNY: In San Diego, Kevin Acee wrote the Rams "can ignore (and be a bit playful about) the 'Fight for L.A.,'" as the Chargers are looking to attract local residents "who hardly care San Diego’s team is now theirs." The Chargers "ran onto the field to mostly boos in a mostly empty Coliseum before Saturday’s game." Winning over L.A. fans is a war the Chargers "may never win." But the Rams "might not win over L.A. in any significant way either." The most "certain statement that can be made after Saturday is that the Chargers might be pretty good this season while the Rams will remain awful" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 8/27). ESPN.com's Kevin Seifert listed his winners and losers of the preseason, with L.A.'s NFL fandom among the losers. The Rams' and Chargers' preseason attendance numbers are "gory." It "doesn't help that neither team is projected to be among the league's elite." But it is "fairly clear that the Rams' honeymoon is over -- and the Chargers might never get one" (ESPN.com, 8/28).
