Chargers Kick Off Training Camp, Ticket Sales

SAN DIEGO, CA — The Chargers will open training camp Saturday at Chargers Park with the first of 11 practices open to the public amid continued uncertainty over the team's future in San Diego.

The gates at Chargers Park, 4020 Murphy Canyon Road, will open at 8:30 a.m. The practice will be conducted from 9:30 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.

During weekdays, parking is available only on Murphy Canyon Road. For weekend practices, fans will be allowed to park on Murphy Canyon Road as well as in the Kearny Mesa Business Center, located just south of Chargers Park.

Parking and admission to all training camp practices at Chargers Park are free.

Bleacher seating will be available. Fans are welcome to bring folding chairs to sit on the pavement surrounding the practice fields. Fans also may bring food, water and soft drinks. However, cigarettes and alcoholic beverages are not allowed at Chargers Park at any time.

Hot and cold food, snacks, bottled water and soft drinks will be available for purchase.

Fans may bring personal cameras, but video cameras and telephoto lenses longer than six inches — detachable or non-detachable — are not allowed.

Other items not permitted at Chargers Park during training camp include pets (other than service dogs), weapons, chains, stun guns, mace and pepper spray, water guns, fireworks, Frisbees, sports balls, beach balls or other inflatable objects, laser pointers, flammable objects, musical instruments or noise-making devices.

The Chargers will have eight other practices at Chargers Park open to the general public:

— Sunday, 3-5 p.m.;

— Monday, 9:30-11:25 a.m.;

— Thursday, 9:30-11:25 a.m.;

— Friday, 3-5 p.m.;

— Aug. 8, 3-5 p.m.;

— Aug. 10, 3-5 p.m.;

— Aug. 11, 9:30-11:25 a.m.; and

— Aug. 15, 3-5 p.m.

The gates at Chargers Park will open one hour before the start of each practice.

The Chargers will hold their annual FanFest at Qualcomm Stadium Aug. 6, when the team will practice from 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. The Chargers will also conduct a joint practice with the Arizona Cardinals from 6-8 p.m. at Qualcomm Stadium that will be open to the public.

Saturday also marks the start of single-game ticket sales, which will begins at 8 a.m. at the Chargers ticket office at Gate C at Qualcomm Stadium. The ticket office will be open from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday.

Fans purchasing single-game tickets at Gate C from 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday will receive a coupon good for a 30 percent discount at the Chargers Team Store at Gate H at Qualcomm Stadium.

Online single-game ticket sales will begin at 1 p.m. at Chargers.com/tickets.

The Chargers have been seeking a new stadium for about 15 years to replace Qualcomm Stadium, their home since 1967.

A measure will be on the November ballot that would raise the hotel tax to provide revenue to fund construction of a stadium and convention center annex in the East Village, near Petco Park. The team and NFL would also make contributions toward building the stadium.

Rejection of the initiative could prompt the Chargers to move to Los Angeles. They have a one-year option to join the Los Angeles Rams as the second team in a future stadium in Inglewood.

If San Diego voters approve the initiative, the Chargers' Los Angeles option would be extended an additional year under terms of the proposal approved by NFL owners in January that allowed the Rams to return to Southern California after playing in St. Louis from 1995-2015.

— City News Service

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