The San Diego Chargers (soon to be Los Angeles Chargers) have been the talk of the sports world this week due to their announced relocation. With fans in the San Diego area understandably upset, nostalgia about the soon to be lost franchise hasn’t quite kicked in yet.
When fans do finally for look back on the team while it was based in San Diego, they will see a team with a history remarkably similar to that of the Cincinnati Bengals. A history of promise not yet fulfilled. While the Bengals will hopefully never relocate, in many aspects, the Bengals and the Chargers have been mirror images of each other up to this point.