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The San Diego Chargers, also nicknamed the Bolts or Super Chargers
, are a professional football team based in San Diego, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference (AFC) in the National Football League (NFL).
The club began to play in 1960 as a charter member of the American Football League. The club spent its first season in Los Angeles, California before moving to San Diego in 1961. The Chargers play their home games at Qualcomm Stadium.The Chargers are the only team to start a season 0/4 and make the playoffs (1992), and the only team to start a season 4/8 and make the playoffs (2008).
The Chargers won one AFL title in 1963 and reached the AFL playoffs five times and the AFL Championship four times before joining the NFL (1970) as part of the AFL NFL Merger.In the 34 years since then, the Chargers have made ten trips to the playoffs and four appearances in the AFC Championship game.
At the end of the 1994 season, the Chargers faced the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX and fell 49/26. The Chargers have six players and one coach enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton, Ohio: wide receiver Lance Alworth (1962/1970), defensive end Fred Dean (1975/1981), quarterback Dan Fouts (1973/1987), head coach/general manager Sid Gillman (1960/1969, 1971), wide receiver Charlie Joiner (1976/1986), offensive lineman Ron Mix (1960/1969) and tight end Kellen Winslow (1979/1987).
Except for color changes, the Chargers have basically used the logo of an arc-shaped lightning bolt since the team debuted in 1960. During its period in the AFL, the club also used a shield logo that featured a horsehead, a lightning bolt, and the word "Chargers".
From 1960 to 1973, the colors consisted of either Electric blue ("sky" or "powder" blue, but technically called Collegiate blue) or white jerseys, both with gold lightning bolts on the shoulders. The helmets were white and had both the arc-shaped lightning bolt logo, in gold, and the player's number. At first, the team wore white pants before switching to gold in 1966.
In 1974, the sky blue was changed to dark royal blue. The helmet was also changed to dark blue and the players' numbers were removed. From 1978 through 1983, the Chargers wore their white jerseys at home, coinciding with the hiring of coach Don Coryell when Joe Gibbs, a Coryell assistant in 1979/80, became head coach of the Washington Redskins in 1981, he did the same, and white at home has become a Redskins staple ever since but Coryell switched the Chargers to their blue jerseys at home starting in 1984. With the exception of the 1991 season and other sporadic home games since, San Diego wears its blue jerseys at home.
In 1985, the Chargers started using navy blue jerseys and returned to wearing white pants. The team's uniform design was next revamped in 1988. It featured an even darker shade of navy blue. The lightning bolts on the jerseys and helmets were white, with navy interior trim and gold outlining. In 1990, the team started to wear navy pants with their white jerseys. From 1988/1991, the team displayed stripes down the pants rather than lightning bolts.
The Chargers went with all-white combinations in 1997 and 2001, only to have the blue pants make a comeback. On October 27, 2003, the Chargers wore their navy pants with their navy jersey for a Monday Night Football game versus the Miami Dolphins that was played at Sun Devil Stadium, then the home of the Arizona Cardinals, due to wildfires in southern California. This remains the only game in which the Chargers have worn the all-dark combination.
From the late 1980s to 2000, the Chargers wore white at home during preseason games and dark for regular season games. In 2001, the Chargers started wearing their dark uniforms for preseason games and white uniforms in September home games due to the heat before switching back to dark in October. From 2002/2006, the Chargers used the early 1960s powder blue uniforms as alternate jerseys, which many football fans (both of the Chargers and of other teams) clamored for the team to bring back full time.
Since 2007, the Chargers have worn the alternate powder blue jerseys a total of seven times, most recently in a November 29, 2009 game vs. the Kansas City Chiefs. The alternate powder blue jerseys were worn for a game against the Indianapolis Colts in the 2008 playoffs.In 2009, in honor of their 50th anniversary as one of the eight original AFL teams, the Chargers wore their 1960 throwback uniforms for three games.
by: Cynthia Hoffman
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