Talk:San Diego Sports Curse

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If I remember right, the NL pennet and AFC conference title are considered championships, hence the Padres have one two championships, and the Chargers one. The Chargers also won an AFL championship!

• Were talking about the inablility of winning a Modern-Day World Championship here. The Padres have never been World Series Champions. The Chargers have never won a Super Bowl. And for some reason the 1963 AFL Championship doesn't count in todays standards. Only Super Bowls count. Thats our curse. Not to mention our huge drought, and being tormented by the Raiders. By the way as a San Diego Sports fan, this curse has tortured me and my friends for a long time. Hopefully this curse will be gone soon. GO BOLTS IN 2008!! User:Gundamforce 01:52, April 19 2007 (UTC)

-I've lived in san diego all of my life, and i never heard of a "san Diego Sports Curse." Are you trying to coin a new phrase? Plus that dude is right. The Chargers won the AFC CHAMPIONSHIP in `94, and the AFL Championship in '63, and the padres won the `84 and 98 NL CHAMPIONSHIPS. who says only superbowls count? the AFL championship shows up on all major stats engines for the chargers. plus the Gulls and the Sockers were dominant teams in their leagues.

theres no sports curse here. the only curse is aj amith and alex spanos. those two are probably going to move the chargers from san diego.

The statistic which troubles me is the one related to Chargers fan loyalty. If fan capacity is low because of a small stadium, and if fan loyalty is based on fan capacity, of course the Chargers will receive a low number. Fan loyalty should be based on the percentage of the stadium filled up, not raw numbers. If San Diego had a stadium which held 80,000 fans, it might raise their ranking. I'm also not sure that a "curse' is an explanation. The Padres overachieved in '84, and the Yankees were far and away the best team in baseball in '98. The Chargers overachieved in '94, and the 49ers bought their championship with shady salary cap maneuvers before that season even started, signing (among others) Deion Sanders and Rickey Jackson as free agents. The Chargers lost the '04 playoff game due to Schottenheimer's poor planning; his game plan was based on the belief that it was going to rain (it didn't). The Chargers had to make 10 mistakes to lose to the Patriots in '07; had they made only 9, they'd have won the game and probably would be defending Super Bowl champions. The Padres have been historically bad due to uncommitted ownership; even John Moores was more concerned with making money in real estate than with putting a winning team on the field; Kevin Towers has done wonders considering the limits put on him. A.J. Smith may not be the best guy in the world, but he knows talent, and he's been successful everywhere he goes. If the Spanos family keeps the Chargers together, they'll win a Super Bowl within the next three years. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mrjohnmiddleton (talk • contribs) 02:15, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

The San Diego sports curse is alive and well! Holy 18:11, 2 October 2007 (UTC)