Further evidence that sports and Los Angeles should never be one.
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Winless on the team's three-game homestand in a new city, the
Los Angeles Chargers can point to one thing that has been consistent: opposing fans taking over the stadium.
It started with the
Miami Dolphins, when some Chargers' players initially thought
Younghoe Koo had made his potential winning field goal attempt from 44 yards because of the Dolphins' fans screaming their approval when his kick sailed wide right.
The following week,
Kansas City Chiefs fans filled the 27,000-seat stadium with red, making it look like Arrowhead Stadium West.
And on Sunday,
Philadelphia Eagles fans were perhaps the rowdiest of the three games.
The Chargers were loudly booed coming out of the tunnel for player introductions. And the stadium filled mostly with fans clad in green Philadelphia Eagles' gear chanting "Let's go Eagles" -- basically taking over the facility in terms of crowd noise with their team salting away a 26-24 victory at the end of the game.
"We kind of knew," Eagles center
Jason Kelce told reporters after the game. "We heard I guess on StubHub like 70 percent of the sales were from the Philadelphia area, so we kind of knew it was going to be at least close. And then right when you came out of the locker room to open the game, the cheers for Philadelphia coming out, we knew it was going to be a big crowd for us."
Added Eagles tackle
Jason Peters: "It's almost like the Chargers got 16 away games. It's going to be tough sledding for those guys."