The team spent its first season in Los Angeles, before moving to San Diego in 1961 to become the San Diego Chargers.
Running back Chuck Muncie completed three of four passes in his career, all for touchdowns, giving him a 156.2 career passer rating.
Despite never having played college football, Antonio Gates would go on to become the franchise leader in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns.
The Chargers defensive line was given the name "Bruise Brothers", a reference to the Blues Brothers, an American blues and soul revivalist band founded in 1978 by comedy actors Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi as part of a musical sketch on Saturday Night Live.
Barron Hilton, son and successor of hotelier Conrad Hilton, was a founding partner of the American Football League. He named his team the Chargers, but denies that he did it to create synergy with his new credit card business.
During the 1994 season, Humphries completed 264 out of 453 attempts for 3,209 yards and 17 touchdowns, with 12 interceptions. But he couldn't keep up with 49ers QB Steve Young in the Super Bowl, and the Chargers lost 26-49.
As the first coach of the Chargers, Sid Gillman gave the team a mercurial personality that matched his own. His insistence on stretching the football field by throwing deep downfield passes, instead of short passes to running backs or wide receivers at the sides of the line of scrimmage, was instrumental in making football into the modern game that it is today.
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