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The Los Angeles Chargers keep shooting themselves in the foot in terms of actions that turn off their fans, including the soldiers who were included in a promotional Tweet for #SaluteToService week in the NFL.This is the tweet the Chargers sent out on Tuesday. + = pic.twitter.com/r4mkJEWEMd— Los Angeles Chargers (@Chargers) November 14, 2017 Now here’s the actual photo. Many on social media decried the crop, noting an actual soldier was cut out of the picture just so “San Diego” wasn’t included. Now the person who arranged for the photo has spoken up. Retired Army Sgt. First Class Johnny Case was on his fourth tour of duty and second in Afghanistan when he set up the picture the Chargers used.
“For them to do that to my picture, and not even ask, to crop out one of our guys … it was like, ‘Wow, of course they’re going to do that,’ ” Case said Friday morning in a phone interview with Tod Leonard of The San Diego Union-Tribune. “They have this spite for San Diego. But it’s not about San Diego. It’s a soldier. I
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“For them to do that to my picture, and not even ask, to crop out one of our guys … it was like, ‘Wow, of course they’re going to do that,’ ” Case said Friday morning in a phone interview with Tod Leonard of The San Diego Union-Tribune. “They have this spite for San Diego. But it’s not about San Diego. It’s a soldier. I
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