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Imagine AC Slater wrestling the stud guy on Valley in a much-anticipated home matchup at Bayside High. Slater enters the gym hoping to feed off the electricity from the home cloud, most notably Jessie Spano, only to be engulfed in a sea of Valley blue who want nothing more than to see you lose. How deflating. I can’t imagine how difficult it would be to gear up and play to your potential when your home gym is enemy territory.
That is what the Los Angeles Chargers deal with every Sunday, both “home” and away. And they’re not even THAT bad. The Chargers may have swallowed their toughest pill yet on Sunday when the less-than-great 49ers entered the StubHub Center and brought the entire Bay Area with them. Granted, the Chargers are still assimilating to their new home in Los Angeles and San Francisco is a somewhat manageable six hour drive, but for these photos are embarrassing, especially when you consider L.A. is the second-biggest market in the country.
Time for another game of "Spot the Los Angeles Chargers fans in an image of a Los Angeles Chargers home game" pic.twitter.com/9g1t7cBMeF
— Rodger Sherman (@rodger) September 30, 2018
Los Angeles vs. San Francisco Part II today. pic.twitter.com/UwxQuw1l21
— Arash Markazi (@ArashMarkazi) September 30, 2018
https://twitter.com/DerekNBCSD/status/1046503522248753153
Listen to the crowd erupt after the Niners pick six.
.@49ers PICK-6! #GoNiners#SFvsLAC
📺: CBS https://t.co/ifmS28Otks
— NFL (@NFL) September 30, 2018
The Chargers ended up pulling out the victory over a Jimmy Garoppolo-less 49ers team, 29-27, to advance to 2-2 on the year. But, this begs the age-old question: If the Chargers won at home and there aren’t any Chargers fans in attendance to witness it, can we really be sure the Chargers won?
[h/t For The Win]