Post by nutsberryfarm 🏜 on Aug 29, 2017 18:10:45 GMT
www.sandiegouniontribune.com/sports/chargers/sd-sp-chargers-fouts-stubhub-20170828-story.html
“It is embarrassing, I think, for both the Chargers and the National Football League, to be playing in a 27,000-seat stadium,” Fouts, a team-employed broadcaster during the preseason, said Monday in an interview with KNX-AM in Los Angeles. “In fact, the Chargers' first game ever, when they beat the New York Titans in a preseason game, in the Coliseum, it drew 27,000.”
Fouts’ memory is accurate. The Chargers-Titans game on Aug. 6, 1960, attracted 27,778 to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Fifty-seven years later, the Chargers’ exhibition games against Seattle and New Orleans at StubHub had crowds of 21,054 and 21,197, respectively.
Fouts, who works as a broadcaster for CBS during the regular season, played for the Chargers from 1973-87. Only three times in that span, all in 1975 during a 2-12 season, did the Chargers play in front of home crowds of smaller than 27,000 during the regular season. The smallest gathering was 24,349.
Fouts agreed with his KNX interviewer that the Chargers leaving San Diego for Los Angeles was a mistake but added, “Both the city and the ownership are to blame for where the Chargers are right now. 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.”
“It is embarrassing, I think, for both the Chargers and the National Football League, to be playing in a 27,000-seat stadium,” Fouts, a team-employed broadcaster during the preseason, said Monday in an interview with KNX-AM in Los Angeles. “In fact, the Chargers' first game ever, when they beat the New York Titans in a preseason game, in the Coliseum, it drew 27,000.”
Fouts’ memory is accurate. The Chargers-Titans game on Aug. 6, 1960, attracted 27,778 to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.
Fifty-seven years later, the Chargers’ exhibition games against Seattle and New Orleans at StubHub had crowds of 21,054 and 21,197, respectively.
Fouts, who works as a broadcaster for CBS during the regular season, played for the Chargers from 1973-87. Only three times in that span, all in 1975 during a 2-12 season, did the Chargers play in front of home crowds of smaller than 27,000 during the regular season. The smallest gathering was 24,349.
Fouts agreed with his KNX interviewer that the Chargers leaving San Diego for Los Angeles was a mistake but added, “Both the city and the ownership are to blame for where the Chargers are right now. 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.”
