Carl Lahr sold for the Clippers during their darkest days — literally. When Lahr joined the team as a ticket salesman in San Diego in 1981, the folks who ran the San Diego Sports Arena wouldn’t turn on the lights during the day, so Lahr would have to show potential ticket-holders their seats in the dark.
“I did a lot of feeling around,’’ he said.
Carl Lahr sold for the Clippers on their journey to Los Angeles — literally.
Three days before the team’s first Los Angeles news conference in May 1984, even though the team offices were still in San Diego, Lahr was ordered to rent a moving van, fill it with office furniture, drive it north, and park it outside the Los Angeles Sports Arena as a smoke-belching testament that the team was actually moving.