San Diego Chargers snubbed at LA Times

I live between Los Angeles, the only large market in the US without a football team, and San Diego, a small market with the 3rd best team in the NFL. Being relatively close to San Diego, and because LA is sorely lacking, I root for the Chargers.

The national media hardly covers West Coast sports. This phenomenon is sufficiently well known that there's a name for it: East Coast bias. I can deal with this bias. The media HQ of the United States is New York City, and people back East can't see this far west. See here, here, here, or here for examples.

My opinion is that East Coast bias is a natural phenomenon: Europeans first arrived on the East coast, and so it was civilized first. The West was civilized last (c. 1975). The East coast is still more densely populated than the West, and with only a handful of exceptions, has a higher proportion of industry.

I don't mind the sports bias at all, at the national level. If we in Southern California get too much press, eventually even East Coast morons will come to understand that living in good weather is far better than constantly messing around with ice, snow, rain, and cold temperatures. Bottom line: we don't want those dumbasses out here. We have enough of them as it is. Every time I watch a Pacific sunset and some loud, obnoxious bastard with a Brooklyn accent spoils my solitude, I want California to rebel and become independent of those East Coast clowns.

And after all that long-winded bluster, here's what I really wanted to say: Nationally, there may be an excuse to ignore the San Diego Chargers, but there's no excuse for the LA Times to ignore a football team that is less than two hours away. What, exactly, is wrong with LA (or at least the Times?). Are they jealous that no NFL team can survive in a metro area of nearly 20 million people, yet thrive in one with a mere 3 million? What gives? Why the snub?

Maybe it's because the Charges got their start in LA, then quickly got away, like all other football teams. Resentment, LA? Jealousy? Suffering football envy, are we?

Get with the program, LA, the Chargers' circle of influence encompasses the sprawling, crime-ridden cesspool you call home. Start covering the Chargers in your newspaper.