DEAN OF IMPUDENCE

Spanos seemed to think that Los Angeles was dying for a second NFL team, which is funny because we weren’t sure L.A. wanted a first NFL team.

MICHAEL ROSENBERG

CONGRATULATIONS, DEAN SPANOS. You have done what Donald Trump, Roger Goodell, Colin Kaepernick and a ballroom full of concussion researchers could not: You made people stop watching an NFL team. I must admit, I didn’t think this was possible. The NFL could sell beef to vegans, lawnmowers to apartmentdwellers, rat poison to a rat. Sure, the league’s TV ratings have fallen a bit, but the NFL is still an entertainment giant: the NBA and The Avengers and Beyonce rolled into one. Enter 67-year-old Dean Spanos, stage left—which obviously means he was supposed to enter stage right. The Spanos family has owned the Chargers for 33 years, but he grew unhappy with his stadium in San Diego. His solution: Complain to the city council and then hide in his house. Then he took…

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Sports Illustrated (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 16, 2017

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