San Diego Chargers Company Description
This company tries to energize football fans in Southern California. San Diego Chargers Football owns and operates the San Diego Chargers professional football team, a charter member of the American Football League that joined the National Football League in 1970. Barron Hilton (the son of hotelier Conrad Hilton) founded the team in 1959 as the Los Angeles Chargers; it moved to San Diego in 1961 and won the AFL championship two years later. Despite its lengthy history, the franchise has made just one trip to the Super Bowl (a 1995 loss to the San Francisco 49ers). Alex Spanos, who owns California construction firm A. G. Spanos Companies, has owned the Bolts since 1984.
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