The Los Angeles Chargers is still weird to say, but we’ll get used to it. And they’ve been an embarrassment since they moved south. There’s even been rumors about the team moving back to San Diego.

Their temporary home is a soccer stadium, the StubHub Center, which seats about 27,000 people. It failed to sell out two weeks ago for the team’s home opener against the Dolphins.

It looks like it’s gonna get worse. They’re tarping empty seats.

https://twitter.com/LesBowen/status/914559768051687424

I would be shocked if today’s game gets about 22,000 fans there. The Chargers will probably fluff that number up, but it’ll look really bad on TV.


It might not help that most of the fans at the game aren’t Charger fans either:

Even writers and reporters want to change their game pick from the Chargers to the Eagles:

Carson, California is Philadelphia West for at least one day.

UPDATE: The Chargers say they’ve been doing it throughout the season:

Contrary to a tweeted photo from Les Bowen of the Philadelphia Daily News implying that seats have been covered at StubHub Center, the Chargers tell PFT that the banners shown in the image have been there all year, and that they do not reduce the capacity below the 27,000 seats currently contained in the venue.

No seats are under the signage, which the Chargers opted to use so that the concourses, restrooms, and traffic wouldn’t be affected until the team had a better feel for whether an extra 3,000 seats (if the Chargers opt to expand the seating) would work.

Also, some Philadelphia media members have to sit outside: