I’ve been a football fan all my life.
I played peewee, Pop Warner, junior and high school football.
I was a San Diego Charger fan for 45 years, 23 of those as a season ticket holder.
In 1984, the Spanos family bought the controlling interest in the Chargers, according to news reports.
Almost from the start, they threatened to move the team if San Diego didn’t build them a new stadium, to the tune of a billion and a half dollars.
Voters rejected the plan, and now the Spanos family has moved the team to Los Angeles.
So now a billionaire family can make more billions.
I have recently moved to the Pacific Northwest.
I’m trying now to become a Seattle Seahawk fan.
I respect the ownership, coach Pete Carroll, Russell Wilson and many of their players.
But now we have players here and around the league who have been coddled and recruited from middle and high school, given a full ride in college, drafted and signed to million-dollar contracts, sitting, kneeling, raising clenched fists, in protest during our national anthem.
So, am I a football fan?
As of now, that would be a definite no.
Phil Turner,
Sequim