San Diego – As the Chargers team rolled the previous freeway of Paave and towards San Diego, Tony Jefferson could not help, but smiled.
It feels like a house.
Eight years after the Chargers left San Diego, the organization is re -presenting itself in the city with a two -day training camp this week. The fans who could not secure tickets to practice at San Diego University on Tuesday, still climbed from the top of the nearby hill to a glimpse. Jefferson, a native of San Diego, who grew up for Chargers, was happy to see the support after the franchise’s controversial departure.
“The city that leaves the city with any sports team (fans) feel vacant when he comes to the location,” Jefferson said, who signed with Chargers last year. “But I think we are slowly filling that void.”
Coach Jim Harbagh’s San Diego and several relationships for the immediate victory were seen smoothing a possible reunion with the city. When the team officials approached him to return to San Diego for the training camp, the coach agreed eagerly. He suggested the San Diego Campus University, where he started his head coaching for Tororos in 2004.
After more than two decades, this week’s practices are a homecoming for Harbow, but it is not an olive branch for the charger organization, he insisted.
“It’s about the great fans we have,” Harbagh said in June. “We want to go to our fans. We want to go to our charger supporters and they are everywhere.”
Chargers coach Jim Harbagh instructed the players during the training camp in San Diego on Tuesday.
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Although the Chargers returned this week, they did not throw the doors open for all fans. Both his practices were limited in appearance. Tuesday’s practice was only open to active-duty military and veterans. The season is reserved for ticket holders on Wednesday.
The players signed an autograph for about an hour after practice on Tuesday. Quarterback Justin Herbert looped back twice in front of a self-ranking fans who run three bus-long running fans. Security Derwin James Junior, who never played in San Diego after draft in 2018, was in awe of all the number 3 jersey seen in the crowd.
“It’s heated my heart just supported,” James said. “I can’t wait to give them anything to make them happy.”
As a player, the history of Harbagh has helped Chargers back to their roots by celebrating their most prestigious players. The coach, who played two seasons for the chargers, asked former team partner Rodney Harrison to inform the security that he would be included in the Chargers Hall of Fame in October. Legendary tight end Antonio Gates will enter Pro Football Hall of Fame in less than two weeks. Five years after the final season of his 17 -year career with Indianapolis Colts, Quarterback Philip River on Monday declared the course to retire as a charger officially as a charger.
Doubling on nostalgia, the Chargers unveiled the throtback alternative Navy Jersey that was a hit among the players and fans. Jefferson said that “I was killed in the core after seeing the naval uniform with gold-fed white electric bolts.” This was like the first NFL jersey that was owned by her: a junior CU jersey that she got for Christmas.
Chargers were at the center of almost all of Jefferson’s main NFL memories. He was sitting in his nose with his girlfriend in his first NFL game between Chargers and Reders. He played his last high school football game for Chula Vista Eastlake High at Qualcomm Stadium.
Chargers running back to Omarian Hampton run via a drill during the training camp in San Diego on Tuesday.
(Gregory Bull / Associated Press)
But the stadium became old, motivating the chargers to move. Now when Jefferson drives south on Interstate 15, he still hates in search of his authority because he remembers the familiar site.
“This type of item is just,” Jefferson said. “This happened to the raids. They are our rival and they are very large that they represent organization-wise and they also left. It is just a business.”
Padress San Diego has the only major Pro Sports team and the city’s pride lasts deeply. When Chargers celebrated the title of Dojers World Series last year, Jefferson, a dye-hard padress fan, looked at the congratulatory message from a floor to the roof in the Chargers Practice Facility.
But no supporters in the city, Jefferson, who still lives in San Diego, tries to remind the fans that this team is still chargers.
Jefferson said, “We are just two hours away, Sophie is an ideal place for fans, I don’t see why we should not be fans of San Diego,” Jefferson said. “I think the bus is just opening the arms and telling them.”
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Rushavan Slater missed the practice for the third consecutive day and “working through some,” said Harbagh. The coach suggested a minor, tip-toing to undeclared injury that Slater is trying to wait for a conversation for a contract expansion. … Chargers signed to run Nyheim Hines back to increase a situation that is still waiting for Nazi Harris to return. Harris remains in a list of non-football injuries after suffering from an eye injury from a fireworks accident, but is participating in the team’s meetings. Signing the hines, the Chargers waived the aggressive lineman Savian Washington with a failed physical designation. The Washington list was physically unable to perform.
