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Published on 09/16/2010 at Thu Sep 16 18:14.
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Lights out for Chargers’ home opener

Posted Thu Sep 16th by

The San Diego Chargers won't be seen in local markets Sunday; their home opener against Jacksonville has been blacked out. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

The San Diego Chargers won't be seen in local markets Sunday; their home opener against Jacksonville has been blacked out. (REUTERS/Mike Blake)

The NFL’s biggest joke of a fanbase has been teetering on the edge of blackouts week-to-week for years. They’ll start the 2010 season in a free-fall.

The San Diego Chargers‘ home opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars will be blacked out this week after the Chargers fell 7,000 tickets short of a sellout. What’s more, their next home game against the Arizona Cardinals is also 12,000 short of a sellout.

This for a team with a 67-29 record (.70 winning percentage) since 2004.

And for as much schadenfreude as Broncos fans might enjoy in these developments, Yahoo! Shutdown Corner editor and longtime Chargers fan MJD says it best.

“It’s inexcusable. If the Chargers were perennially awful (something that would not be all together unfamiliar to Chargers fans), it would be one thing, but how much success does a team need to have before people can be bothered to go see them? If you live in San Diego and refer to yourself as a Chargers fan, you can go ahead and spend your Sunday detailing Gilbert (Brown)’s loincloth.“

We certainly can’t think of anything more worthwhile for Chargers fans this Sunday afternoon.

  • Katch22

    HA HA HA!!! Love it.

  • Gary_in_SD

    I live in SD… I REALLY love it!!!

  • Gary_in_SD

    I can finally take my kid to a place here to watch the Bronco game (all dressed up in blue and orange) and not be harassed by “static” fans!

  • Dan

    The NFL needs to stop blacking-out games…It is bad for business. It is simple, lower your ridiculous ticket, concession, and parking prices.

  • Gary_in_SD

    Charger fan I presume? Ha ha ha ha!!!

  • http://www.pickingpros.com nflpicks

    No other fan in sports is as whiny and pissy when they don't get what they want as a Chargers fan. Hilarious to hear that no one wants to waste a good early fall beach weekend to go to the game.

  • dunkeys r dumb

    Dunkey fans only happiness, a chargers blackout game..pathetic and funny just like josh mcdaniels and the entire dunkey staff, keep dreaming about going back to the palyoffs, the chiefs might have a chance, have fun with the faiders at the bottom of the afc west…losers ahahahaha.h

  • Gary_in_SD

    Smoke another joint and go drown surfing you moron! I like the fact that for once, I can go to one of the favorite watering holes of charger fans and watch the home opener of the Broncos without being harassed.

  • LevonZevon

    Now, maybe, they'll move to LA for higher profit-margins (where the league forces a sale to an ownership group headed by local South Californian John Elway).

    Elway trades Rivers, Sproles, Dielman, Gates, Phillips and Floyd for the comeback-attempting duo of Ebenezer Ekuban and Bubby Brister (whom the Broncos re-sign for a half-hour before the trade is irreversibly finalized).

    I can dream, no?

    Tim Tebow is moved to halfback and Rivers pitches him the ball Lombardi-style (as in how Bart Starr used to pitch to Paul Hornung… who had the option of running or passing).

    “With a seal here and and a seal here”– no San Diego Zoo references intended– Tebow doesn't have to run into a brick-wall and his body-memory from three years of Gator option-plays allows him to continue picking the right-lane 90% of the time.

    Hey, come to think of it, that part of my stream-of-consciousness isn't so unbelievable.

    The only reason this would backfire is the media and fan pounding McDaniels would have to take (having to walk back his post-draft promises about immediately grooming Tim into a traditional drop-back QB).

    And this usage wouldn't tip off whether its a run or a pass, or risk wasting Tebow's out-on-the-edge skills by running into 700 lbs of defensive tackle.

    Teams that give their Safeties a green-light to attack the edge of the line would have single-coverage on WR's like Brandon Lloyd and Demaryius Thomas. And teams that don't would only have their OLB in position to stop Tebow on pitch-outs (which McDaniels calls even less than Shanahan).

    I'll bring this up in a more-appropriate forum after the Seattle game if still unattempted.
    It worked for Hornung, why not for the larger Tebow?

  • areferee

    Yous gots lots of “palyoffs” out der in Californicate, does ya?

  • Tom9798

    LZ . . . this is what happens with too many left-handed smokes and shots of Hornitos . . .

    There might have been a real thought pattern . . . but who's to know . . .