Philip Rivers will be the San Diego Chargers’ quarterback through 2019, he said Monday, “wherever we are.”
Whether he ends his career with the Chargers still based in San Diego or uprooted and moved to the Los Angeles area, Rivers will be able to retire with lightning bolts on his helmet.
“To spend my whole career in one place is very special,” Rivers said at a news conference Monday, less than 48 hours after he agreed to an $84 million, four-year extension to remain with the Chargers through 2019.
It helps that Rivers’s deal includes a no-trade clause.