What’s the big deal? I remember when there was a Los Angeles Chargers.\u00a0Yes the San Diego Chargers started out as the Los Angeles Chargers in the old American Football league and were there for one year before they moved to San Diego.<\/p>\n
I’ve been a fan of the old AFL\u00a0since the very\u00a0\u00a0beginning.<\/p>\n
I remember when the Kansas City\u00a0Chiefs were the Dallas Texans, the Tennessee Titans were the Houston Oilers, The New York Jets were the New York Titans and of\u00a0course the New England Patriots were the Boston\u00a0Patriots. I remember the Patriots always playing on Friday nights to avoid going head to head with the New York\u00a0football Giants on Sunday afternoons.\u00a0Yes that’s why there were and still are Giant fans in\u00a0the Boston area and in New England. The Giants were on one channel and the Cleveland Browns on another channel when I was growing up. In the NFL I was a Browns fan, not a Giants fan. I adored Jimmy Brown who in my mind is the greatest player in NFL history. I\u00a0also liked the Colts for some reason. I\u00a0think it was because of Johnny Unitas. Of course I\u00a0was a Patriots fan in the AFL and actually rooted for the Jets to beat the Colts in that first Super Bowl in which the AFL came of age. I guess I wasn’t a Colts fan by that time. I\u00a0probably would’ve rooted against the Browns too because I really wanted the AFL to make it!<\/p>\n
Back to those Friday night Patriots games. I went to those a lot. I would go in by bus with a few friends. They played at BU Field. BU Field was originally Braves Field where the Boston Braves used to play. BU Field at Boston University later became Nickerson Field. The Patriots played everywhere and I\u00a0saw them in every place… BC Stadium, Harvard Stadium and Fenway Park and the old Shaeffer Stadium later called Sullivan Stadium and Foxboro Stadium in Foxboro. The only place I haven’t seen a game is the present\u00a0location Gillette Stadium.<\/p>\n
So it’s going to be the Los Angeles Chargers again? That’s nothing new!<\/p>\n
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