The San Diego Chargers will remain in San Diego for at least one more year.
Amid talk that the Chargers could move to Los Angeles as soon as the 2015 season, the team released a statement this evening saying that they are committed to staying in San Diego next year.
“On February 1st of every year since 2007, the Chargers have been eligible to terminate the team’s lease for Qualcomm Stadium. And each year since 2007, the Chargers have announced that the team will not exercise the termination clause and instead continue to work toward a permanent stadium solution in San Diego,” the team said in its statement. “Today, the Chargers are making the same announcement that the team has made each year since 2007: The team will not be exercising the lease termination clause and will keep working to find a publicly acceptable way to build a Super-Bowl quality stadium in San Diego. Calendar year 2015 will constitute the team’s fourteenth year of work on a San Diego stadium solution.”
Whether the Chargers and San Diego can ever come to terms on building the kind of stadium the team wants remains to be seen. But the Chargers are going to keep trying, for at least one more year.
