Los Angeles Chargers
The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The club was founded as a Los Angeles-based team on August 14, 1959, and began play on September 10, 1960. They spent their first season in Los Angeles before relocating to San Diego in 1961 to become the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers won one AFL title in 1963 and reached the AFL playoffs five times and the AFL Championship four times before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The return of the Chargers to Los Angeles was announced for the 2017 season, just one year after the Rams had moved back to the city from St. Louis.
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American Football League National Football League The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team based in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The club was founded as a Los Angeles-based team on August 14, 1959, and began play on September 10, 1960. They spent their first season in Los Angeles before relocating to San Diego in 1961 to become the San Diego Chargers. The Chargers won one AFL title in 1963 and reached the AFL playoffs five times and the AFL Championship four times before joining the NFL as part of the AFL–NFL merger in 1970. The return of the Chargers to Los Angeles was announced for the 2017 season, just one year after the Rams had moved back to the city from St. Louis. In the 43 years since then, the Chargers have made 13 trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game. In 1994, they won their lone AFC championship and faced the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX, losing 49–26. They have eight players and one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio: wide receiver Lance Alworth, defensive end Fred Dean, quarterback Dan Fouts, head coach–general manager Sid Gillman and running back LaDainian Tomlinson. The team’s first head coach was Don Coryell, who would remain coaching the team until 1986. They were placed into the AFC West division after the completion of the AFCNFL merger. In 1973, a rookie quarterback named Coryell would serve as the catalyst to the Chargers’ return to prominence as the first major drug scandal in the NFL in the same year, however, a player named Johnny Unitas would become the first player to be traded down in the following season.
In 1970, the team won the AFL title with a 51–10 victory over the Boston Patriots. They also played great defense, as indicated by their professional football record 49 pass interceptions in 1961, and featured AFL Rookie of the Year defensive end Earl Faison. The Chargers were the originators of the term ‘Fearsome Foursome’ to describe their all-star defensive line, anchored by Faison and Ernie Ladd. During the 1973 season the Chargers won divisional crowns five of the league’s first six seasons and the AFC title in 1962. They played for the whole ten-season existence in the AFL before the upstart league merged with the older NFL. The original owner was hotel heir Barron Hilton, son of Hilton Hotels founder Conrad Hilton. He agreed after his general manager, Frank Leahy, picked the Chargers name when he purchased an AFL franchise for Los Angeles: ‘I liked it because they were yelling ‘charge’ and sounding the bugle at Dodger Stadium and at USC games.’ The Chargers played their first year in L.A., but moved to SanDiego the following year, where they would be based for the next 56 seasons. They previously played at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, Balboa Stadium and Qualcomm Stadium while in San Diego and Dignity Health Sports Park.
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