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The Chargers announced their 50th Anniversary Team in 2009 to honor the top players and coaches in the team's history. The Chargers were founded in 1959. [148] The team included 53 players and coaches selected from 103 nominees. [149] [150] [151] The Chargers originally stated that only 50 members would be selected. [151]
The Chargers only spent one season in Los Angeles before moving to San Diego in 1961 due to the popularity of the Rams. [16] Initially denied in December, 1960, [17] but announced in late January, 1961, owner Barron Hilton relocated the Chargers down the coast to a soon-to-be expanded Balboa Stadium at Balboa Park in San Diego for the 1961 season, [18] [19] [20] their home field until 1966.
In the 11th week, the Chargers were defeated by Oakland 41–21 with 52,661 spectators at the game, alongside 2,018 closed-circuit television viewers in the San Diego Sports Arena. In 1968, the Chargers played a first pre-season game at San Diego Stadium against the NFL's San Francisco 49ers. The Chargers won 30–18, before 39,553 spectators.
The Foolish Club were the owners of the eight original franchises of the American Football League (AFL). When Texas oil magnates Lamar Hunt and Bud Adams Jr. were refused entry to the established National Football League (NFL) in 1959, they founded franchises in Dallas and Houston, and recruited businessmen in six other U.S. markets to form an eight-team rival circuit, calling it the American ...
Once Carol and Mark Davis inherited the Raiders in 2012, they acknowledged negotiations with the L.A. groups, but were dissatisfied with both of the proposals; the city still remained an option along with San Antonio, Texas. [76] Chargers owner Dean Spanos said in 2014 that adding a Los Angeles team "would really be harmful to us", given that ...
The Texans, as they did with seemingly every Chargers mistake, took advantage of the moment to again shift momentum back into their favor. If you watched Los Angeles for 17 regular-season games ...
The Chargers (11-6) closed the regular season with a three-game winning streak under first-year coach Jim Harbaugh and will visit the fourth-seeded Houston Texans (10-7) on Saturday.
Throughout the years, a number of teams in the National Football League (NFL) have either moved or merged.. In the early years, the NFL was not stable and teams moved frequently to survive, or folded only to be resurrected in a different city with the same players and owners, while the Great Depression era saw the movement of most surviving small-town NFL teams to larger cities to ensure ...