city trash talk

You Know What’s Horrible, Everybody? SAN DIEGO

It is of a grand tradition, during playoff week, to find reasons to hate the opposing team’s city. This is always a little easier when it’s a geographic rival like Boston or Philadelphia, but for now, San Diego, home of the Chargers, will have to do. So! San Diego! You drive your cars too much; your revamped Gaslamp District seems artificial and hacky; your biggest software company is freaking Websense; you were one of the epicenters of the housing crisis; your biggest tourist event involves hundreds of thousands of dorks; your airport only has one runway; you have a nondescript skyline; your football stadium has a statue of a sportswriter outside of it; and you’ve never had a single sports franchise ever win a damned thing. Oh, and your zoo is overrated.

You Know What’s Horrible, Everybody? SAN DIEGO