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Raiders' blowout win over Chargers on 'TNF' ends with final score that's never been seen before in NFL history

Did the Raiders' play their 3rd & 4th string players in the fourth quarter ?

I'm not a fan or a team running up the score.
 
ScoopKona said:
And they fired Brandon Staley when what they really need is a change of ownership. The rot with that team starts at the top.
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The Spanos goofs won’t fire themselves.
 

Scorigami

Scorigami is a concept thought up by Jon Bois. It is the art of building final scores that have never happened before in NFL history. Due to the unique nature of how points are scored in (American) Football, where it is impossible to score 1 point on its own, as well as the rarity of the 2 point...
nflscorigami.com

The current scorigami matrix. Unshaded cells are score combinations that have never occurred.

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It appears the only situation(s) in which the losing team scores on four points (two safeties) have been a 10-4 final score. All other combinations in which the losing team scores only four points have never occurred. And a winning team has never scored only four points. But there has been a game with a winning score of 2-0.
 
Feel sorry for the Charger’s players
The Owners
Not so much
 
What a beautiful game.
 
The Chargers used to be a San Diego team. Their Stadium (Jack Murphy/Qualcomm) had gone through some sort of major refurb a decade or so ago. But the Spanos threatened to leave SD if another huge sum of PUBLIC money was not spent on their private business. Their demand was to build them a new stadium of about the same capacity as the old stadium but much more upscale. But they wanted public money for their private enterprise. They threatened to leave and THANK GOODNESS they didn't get the hundreds of millions they demanded. So they left. Good riddance.
 
BJRSanDiego said:
The Chargers used to be a San Diego team. Their Stadium (Jack Murphy/Qualcomm) had gone through some sort of major refurb a decade or so ago. But the Spanos threatened to leave SD if another huge sum of PUBLIC money was not spent on their private business. Their demand was to build them a new stadium of about the same capacity as the old stadium but much more upscale. But they wanted public money for their private enterprise. They threatened to leave and THANK GOODNESS they didn't get the hundreds of millions they demanded. So they left. Good riddance.
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Yeah, that often seems to be a controversial issue of using public funds to build stadiums and arenas for privately-owned teams. The other side of the coin that some will argue is that (I'll use the SD/LA Chargers as an example) building a stadium and keeping the team in SD would bring in jobs and other benefits. For instance, SD has hosted a few Super Bowls which brings in visitors, etc.

But hey, I'm no economist. I just read and hear what happens when cities gain or lose professional sports teams.
 
The city did it for the Padres
The city is still in debt
The city has had to cut services
Made some people really rich
Left the rest of us paying the bill
 
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BJRSanDiego said:
The Chargers used to be a San Diego team. Their Stadium (Jack Murphy/Qualcomm) had gone through some sort of major refurb a decade or so ago. But the Spanos threatened to leave SD if another huge sum of PUBLIC money was not spent on their private business. Their demand was to build them a new stadium of about the same capacity as the old stadium but much more upscale. But they wanted public money for their private enterprise. They threatened to leave and THANK GOODNESS they didn't get the hundreds of millions they demanded. So they left. Good riddance.
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However, the NFL forced the NFL to put a ballot measure for a downtown stadium near Petco, with the Chargers paying $650M and the balance paid through an increase in tourist tax (to a level that other large tourist cities charge.)

The Chargers reluctantly placed the measure on the ballot with election to place in November of 2016, but it's "legal mind" Mark Fabiani said it would need 2/3s majority to pass. This was in dispute and others said it only needed 50%+1. The Chargers continued a narrative that it would not pass, and other than the initial announcement, did absolutely NO advertising, no public call for a yes vote by Philip Rivers, Gates, LT, et al, like the Padres did with Tony Gwynn etc. for Petco.

To the contrary it announced in January of 2016 that it had entered into an option agreement (expiring in Jan 2017) to move to LA and Kronke's stadium as a tenant, severely souring both fervent fans as well as other San Diegans.

Despite all this the ballot measure got 43% yes votes. Political analysts stated that had the Chargers not announced their move PRIOR to the ballot measure, and had done even an average ad campaign, it would have easily passed. Of course, they had no intentions of staying.

Despite the ballot loss, the NFL still wanted the Chargers to stay in SD. The Commissioner floated proposals that included the Rams helping pay for a SD stadium (Rams were essentially forced to share with the Chargers, and preferred not to.) The Chargers quickly executed their option to move to LA.

So that is "the rest of the story" about the Chargers' move to LA, and why so many ex-fans hate the Spanos with a deep passion, and enjoy watching the trainwreck that they are.
 
And the Chargers pay $1 a year rent at Sofi. Another reason the Spanos goofs bolted.
 
At the time, I couldn't help but think the Spanos would have taken the money, and then found a way to leave anyway. Fortunately, San Diego told them to make sure the door hit them hard on the way out. And the most delicious aspect of their departure is that Anglenos didn't even want them.
 
The Spanos family major holding is the Chargers
They have been trying to maximize its value since the Father’s death
Needs to be sold to someone with enough money to treat the team as a high price hobby
Needs to have the desire to field the best team money can buy
 
For the others that have opined, you know a lot more than I do. So pardon my ignorance.

My issue is that IMHO the Spano's expected San Diego residents to underwrite their commercial enterprise/business for largely their own benefit. To me it seemed too one sided in terms of who would benefit. Also, I remember that their proposed new stadium had roughly the same capacity as the old stadium except lots of high end luxuries and commercial boxes. If they had 100% packed stadiums and a capacity problem, maybe I would have been more sympathetic. But they weren't filling the stands. So that wasn't the real issue.

I would have been more sympathetic if there was some high tech company threatening to more to Texas or Arizona that was given special tax breaks in order to stay.

Also, I didn't regard the Chargers as a block buster team.
 
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