The Los Angeles Chargers are a professional American football team based in the Greater Los Angeles area. The Chargers compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference (AFC) West division. The team plays its home games at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, which it shares with the Los Angeles Rams.
The Chargers hosting a pre-season game at San Diego Jack Murphy Stadium in 1987
The Chargers drafted running back LaDainian Tomlinson in the 2001 NFL Draft. He became their all-time rushing leader.
Philip Rivers started every game at quarterback from 2006 to 2019.
Dignity Health Sports Park, a soccer-specific stadium that seats 30,000, served as the Chargers' temporary home from 2017 until 2019.
Inglewood is a city in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, United States, in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. As of the 2020 U.S. Census, the city had a population of 107,762. It was incorporated on February 14, 1908. The city is in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County, near Los Angeles International Airport.
SoFi Stadium
The Aguaje de Centinela was a spring used by Native Californians, Californios, and early Americans.
Much of Inglewood was originally part of Rancho Sausal Redondo, granted in 1837 to Antonio Ygnacio Ávila, of the prominent Ávila family of California.
The Centinela Adobe was built in 1834 by Don Ygnacio Machado, a Californio ranchero who owned Rancho Aguaje de la Centinela.