What's so funny about the Chargers' situation is that I've been to that field for an LA Galaxy game and I gotta say... I LOVED IT.
It's intimate and there are NO BAD SEATS.
I truly hope the Chargers win the AFC West and host a playoff game. Whoever gets to go to that game will see playoff football with sightlines that usually on the mucky-mucks get.
You know...the seats where you walk DOWN to your seat after exiting the tunnel versus the long...long march...up and up and up....you pass weather balloons and see clouds passing you in other stadiums.
Honestly, if I owned a team, I'd keep the seating under 60k and try to get it closer to 50k and really focus on the product and making every seat seem super special.
As someone who's sat in the back row of a 100k seat stadium, it's like watching streaming in the late 90s... game looked like pixels of a blown up 320x240 window...
I know there is tons of antipathy in SD and LA hasn't been home to the Chargers since the early 60s. SD isn't even the third most popular team. The Raiders may still be first, the Rams second and if you aggregate them, the Other team (be it Dallas, GB, Pats, Steelers or Giants) is more popular than the Chargers in LA.
If I lived in LA, I'd want to see all of the Rams games, but if you ask me between the Coliseum and the StubHub Arena, I take StubHub every day of the week and thrice on Sunday.