Fans boo Chargers’ logo, Jeff Cumberland at Lakers-Clippers game

With the San Diego Chargers announcing that they will be joining the Rams in Los Angeles, things will be twice as complicated.

Welcome to LA, Bolts. “Neither of these teams has shown in the past a great ability to market”.

But Lynn is the man owner Dean Spanos and general manager Tom Telesco have opted to lead the organisation into a new era. We know that. We’re not expecting anything for nothing. “We have a lot of Clippers fans, and there’s a lot of Lakers fans”.

“San Diego will get a team back”, he said. And we must make a meaningful contribution, not just on the field, but off the field as a leader and champion for the community. We have to fight for everything we’re gonna get here.

That didn’t make it any easier Thursday, when the San Diego Chargers ceased to exist after 56 seasons. The franchise values of the two teams should increase dramatically simply by being based in Los Angeles.

Welcome to Los Angeles, everyone.

There are collegiate athletics powerhouses at USC and UCLA, along with innumerable outdoor sporting pursuits around an entertainment-saturated metropolis that doesn’t get obsessed with sports in the first place.

In the case of the Chargers, it’s not like a new market is replacing an old one. They’ll be playing for the next two seasons in the 30,000-seat StubHub Center in Carson, Calif.

The Chargers played the 2016 season in the same Mission Valley stadium that opened in 1967, paid for entirely by local revenue bonds. “They have given to the Chargers more so than anything this ownership group has done”.

The newly re-minted Los Angeles Chargers haven’t played a game in their return to the City of Angels because that’s over half-a-year away. “Everybody’s been so nice in welcoming me, my family, the Chargers”. He’s just happy to be staying in Southern California. “We’re really looking forward to this season”. He said he’d been going to Chargers games since he was 7.

At a news conference ahead of Saturday’s contest against Utah State, San Diego State basketball coach Steve Fisher said he was disappointed by the news of the Chargers leaving, saying the professional football franchise brought excitement to the city.

The Chargers are moving to Los Angeles, which greeted the news Thursday with a collective yawn. It is in Las Vegas, though, where tourists will shoulder $750 million in new taxes to lure the Raiders to a new stadium just off the glittering Strip.