If you are a football fanatic, most likely you are familiar with the San Diego Chargers. If not, here are a few things that make the San Diego Chargers a great team! Since their merger with the NFL, this professional football team has based itself in San Diego, California. As of these times, they are members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the NFL or National Football League. The team started playing in the year 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The first season was spent Los Angeles, California before they move to San Diego in the year 1961.
The San Diego Chargers sell out Chargers tickets for their home games at the Qualcomm Stadium, and since the year 2011, they were the only NFL team based in Southern California. They had no teams in Los Angeles since the year 1994. The Chargers are the only team who was able to start a season 0-4 and make it to the playoffs in 1992. They were also the only team to start a season 4-8 and made it to playoffs in 2008. In addition, they are one of the 5 teams in NFL to rank first place in the overall defense and offense in the same season in 2010.
During the 2004 NFL season, they are one of the teams with no losing record. However, they never succeeded to enter the Super Bowl. In 1963, they won an AFL title and were able to reach the AFL playoffs not one time, but five times. They also won the Championship four times before they joined the NFL in 1970. For the past 30 years, the Chargers have made several trips to the playoffs and some show in the AFC Championship game. During the end of the 1994 season, the team faced the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX game on 1995. Unfortunately, they were defeated by the San Francisco 49ers with 49-26 score.
The Chargers consist of six players and one coach that were enclosed in shrine located in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio. Lance Alworth (1962-1970) and Charlie Joiner (1976-1986)-Wide receiver, Fred Dean (1975-1981)-Defensive end, Dan Fouts (1973-1987)-Quarterback, Ron Mix (1960-1969)- Offensive lineman, Kellen Winslow (1979-1987)- Tight end, and Sid Gillman (1960-1969)-Manager/Head Coach.
In the year 1970, the Chargers entered the AFC West division the merge of the NFL with the AFL. During that time, the Chargers fell on difficult times. That same time, Gillman who just returned as a General Manager also stepped down the year after. A lot of Charger players from the 1960’s had also retired or has been transferred from other teams. Although they were able to acquire seasoned players such as Johnny Unitas and Deacon Jones; however, they entered in the team at their later career stages, so the team struggled. They just placed fourth in the AFC West from the year 1970 until 1978.
All through the years until the present times, the San Diego Chargers experienced up and downs in the National Football League. At least they learn from every game they played and do all that they can to improve for their next games. This attitude has fans wanting to come back to buy Chargers tixs.
