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At Chargers Park, they shredded gear. On Twitter, they burned the Bolts. San Diego football fans weren’t greeting news of the Los Angeles Chargers with classy coolness.
Fans talked of having mixed feelings — continued affection for the players but disgust for Chargers President and CEO Dean Spanos.
Shock and sadness combined with anger as fans stood in a circle with broken and torn Chargers items piled at their feet.
Some fans shouted, “F— Spanos in unison, and applauded as more fans tossed their belongings. An older man stopped to spit on the pile. Others stood silently, with their heads down as drizzle and cold added to the dreary mood.
“It is what it is. I just think it didn’t turn out,” Hairston said as he shook hands with fans. “You’ve got to come with us. People cheered and thanked him for his work as a Charger.
Lifelong fan David Lamb talked about how the team’s departure affected him personally. Watching Charger games with his father had been a strong tradition.
“Every Sunday, we go to church and then watch the Chargers. It’s the way it is,” said David Lamb, calling himself a fan from birth.
“Now what are we going to do? I’m definitely not going to go for that team in L.A., no way,”
“I hope they go 0-16 next year and just get destroyed and wonder where they are going to be and what they are going to do because they don’t have a home here.”
Reactions from the collapsing Chargers Nation: