The Chargers are a fun franchise to watch, that's for sure.
Of course, we know that's only true as a division rival because the team never has any fans at their own home stadium (SoFi), and even then they gotta share that thing with another franchise because calling something "the home of the Chargers" alone is a depressing descriptor.
That's not to mention they never had any fans in their last city either.
Beyond that, however, what makes the Chargers so fun to watch is that there's always something going wrong. Their injury history over the last several years is well-documented. In fact, it's become concerning even to those on the outside—seriously you have to feel bad, right?—for a team so talented on paper to fall apart.
Even imports that should have put them over the top simply disappeared like an episode of Unsolved Mysteries. Take J.C. Jackson, for instance, who went from resetting the market to available for nothing.
And how about the odd practices of former head coach Brandon Staley? Even when they had the talent to take out a team like the Chiefs from time to time, their own head coach would work against them in the most head-scratching ways.
With the Chargers seemingly on the right course with Jim Harbaugh as head coach, the Chargers are hoping such curses are behind them. Then came Justin Herbert's injury earlier this preseason. And now the latest way the Chargers got shafted.
No, literally. They were literally shafted.
— Los Angeles Chargers (@chargers) August 24, 2024
Glad no one was hurt of course, but it's hard to miss the symbolism here and wonder who the Chargers are going to call at midseason when they're once again stuck together in a losing scenario.