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22 minutes ago, Orange said:

Is it somehow news to people that baseball stadiums are sometimes used as football stadiums?

That's really not the point.  The point is that San Diego once was a seious-level football town.  But their NFL-sized stadium now is dust, their team an afterthought in the LA basin, with no replacement in San Diego except a weak little G5 30,000 seat stadium.  Here they are, a wonderful city, but their lack of interest lost them an NFL football team, and now forces what could be a jewel of a bowl game (maybe pushing into the national playoff picture some years) into a demolation derby of the third-base seats.  It's a sad freefall for what was once a destination football city.

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3 hours ago, EastCoastFan said:

That's really not the point.  The point is that San Diego once was a seious-level football town.  But their NFL-sized stadium now is dust, their team an afterthought in the LA basin, with no replacement in San Diego except a weak little G5 30,000 seat stadium.  Here they are, a wonderful city, but their lack of interest lost them an NFL football team, and now forces what could be a jewel of a bowl game (maybe pushing into the national playoff picture some years) into a demolation derby of the third-base seats.  It's a sad freefall for what was once a destination football city.

Holiday bowl on the playoff picture?  Sure, right when we have Medicare for all.  

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There are baseball stadiums, places with history and panache, where playing a football game makes sense.  It's an event.  Think Yankee Stadium and Wrigley.  But this dogs*** stadium in San Diego is beneath a P5 matchup.  A city that ought to be a destination into Pac-12 territory (the way Atlanta and Tampa are to the SEC and Indianapolis is the B1G) has facilities that more match Omaha or Newark.  If they had built a rock 'em venue to hold the Chargers, they'd be front-line for bigger P5 fish.  Watch ... there will be a vicious fight in the ACC among bowl-eligibles to avoid this bowl option.

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