Monday 30 January 2017 11:32, UK
Los Angeles Chargers have spent most of their history as San Diegans, but the outfit moved back to the City of Angels for the start of the 2017 season.
San Diego became their home after just one season in LA and, to varying degrees of success, they remained there until 2016.
The first and only title that the Chargers have won came just two years after the move to southern California in 1963; the rest of their time there was littered with long droughts and a handful of big games.
Two AFL championship game losses to Buffalo Bills immediately after their championship-winning season sent the Chargers on a long period of absence from the playoffs and they didn't recover until the end of the 1970s when Don Coryell, former coach at St Louis Cardinals, was brought onboard.
His run of three consecutive AFC West division titles and four appearances in the playoffs later earned him a place in the San Diego Chargers' Hall of Fame.
It would, however, be another decade until the Chargers reached the playoffs again with Bobby Ross, who took them to the Super Bowl in 1994 for an all-Californian face-off with San Francisco. The 49ers came out on top, but Ross had given them hope.
A superb resurgence for the San Diegans came about in the mid-to- late 2000s era with Marty Schottenheimer and latterly Norv Turner at the helm. Running back, LaDainian Tomlinson, who won NFL MVP and Offensive Player of the Year awards in 2006, brought a new lease of life to southern California and things looked up until he left before the 2010 season.
Lukewarm seasons followed for the Chargers as they searched for some consistency, but as one of multiple bids to bring football back to the Los Angeles area after a 20-year hiatus, they were approved for the move just one year after the Rams made a similar return journey from St Louis.
From the 2019 season onwards, the Chargers and the Rams will share a stadium in the Los Angeles Stadium at Hollywood Park in a joint-bid to make the city a hotbed of high-quality football.
