I have not been on these boards for a looooong time and stopped playing FF altogether a few years ago, deciding to actually be a part of my family's lives during the football season and enjoy my team and their games again, rather than all the games and individual players.
As a die hard Charger fan, well, you old timers remember, but the key word in die hard is "hard". Yeah, it was hard to do, but the Spanos family did the almost impossible and killed almost all of any remaining NFL interest I had, and now with the protests at our anthem and the pre-game crap, if I see it, I turn the game off. That is my right to not watch or not, but for another thread.
Anyways. I was thinking of how horrible it must be for anyone to try and draft a Charger player for their FF team. There is no such thing as home field advantage, the opposing teams are seating more fans than Charger fans for their "home games". The city of LA did not want them in the first place, but, there they are. Not surprisingly, they suck and have started 0-3. The NFL, by allowing the Chargers to move, reduced TV ratings automatically (despite the other NFL crap going on and poor product on the field) by abandoning one of the top ten markets in the US. There is no interest in LA to watch them on TV, unless it is the displaced fans of the visiting team. At least sell outs are easier in the 10 gallon aquarium they are playing in.
It occurred to me, and it is true. The Spanos family has basically made the Chargers moot. They are just there to play the team that most people watching the game want to watch.
I believe that the NFL should force the team to officially change its name to the Washington Generals.