The city of San Diego has been able to hang onto one of its civic institutions, and apparently, it’s the more important one.
According to U-T San Diego, the city has signed a two-year extension to its deal to host Comic-Con, keeping the pop-culture convention there through 2018.
The eye-opening part is that people there may prefer that to the Chargers, by a pretty large margin.
In a poll on the newspapers website, a one-or-the-other choice between a comic book convention and NFL football has the guys in tights with a 17-point edge.