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Originally Posted by highway80west  One game, many triumphs | The San Diego Union-Tribune
I worked the Chargers' game yesterday as they stomped all over the Houston Texans, 35-10. I worked as a ticket-taker first, then worked inside as an usher. We were pretty badly short-staffed, as a number of young people, and probably some Marines, could not make it to work because of the fires.
Before the game, several people involved with the firefighting effort were recognized as they went on the field.
Please take a look at the front page. You will see that the governor was there. It was really an emotionally-charged afternoon. You would think that God was on the side of us and the Chargers' team. Truly, it was a blessing for all of us.
Before the game, there were Salvation Army volunteers with buckets taking monetary donations. I don't know how much they collected, but I sure it was more than the $200,000 collected four years ago in Tempe, AZ, when the Chargers played there because of the fires here. http://www.salvationarmyusa.org
The crowd was listed just over 60,000. The game was sold out, but of course, people impacted by the fires could not make it to the game.  | Who the fuck cares? Homes in Southern California are WAY over priced to begin with. Hell, my $230,000 home in Pensacola would probably fetch over a million in San Diego County. You have stupid fools there who are paying over half of what they make on a mortgage. Southern California has nothing but one natural disaster after another - wildfires in the Summer, mudslides in the Winter, and earthquakes year round. Now we're all supposed to feel sorry for all those people who lost their vastly over-priced homes?
San Diego likes to tout itself as one of the best cities to live in America. The real truth is that is way too expensive, has too many natural disasters, unchecked illegal immigration, very high crime, and snotty people who think they're better than everybody else.
And yes, I once lived in San Diego. |