The Good News for the Chargers: NFL Fans in LA Are Used to Losers

January 13, 2017   ·   Dave Schilling   ·   Jump to comments

When the citizens of Los Angeles asked for football to come back, it was under the assumption that the team we'd be gifted would be good—or at least generally competent. Not a big ask, I think, and yet here we stand. 
The Rams finished 4-12, and the newly christened Los Angeles Chargers finished a marginally less putrid 5-11. This is like seeing the name "Hemsworth" on the poster for a movie, but instead of Chris, you get Liam and Luke.
The Chargers are Liam—not quite as handsome, maybe a tad generic, but with a certain untapped potential that could be useful under the right circumstances, like in The Hunger Games. The Rams are Luke, because Luke also seems like a guy who doesn't know where the sun rises.
Stretching this analogy to its absolute limits, I dare say that if you are a fan of Hemsworths, two lesser Hemsworths are superior to no Hemsworths at all, or worse, one Baldwin. If any city is prepared to half-heartedly shrug at a bumbling sports ...

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