Originally posted by Boltnut
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Originally posted by powderblueboy View Post
They left the cannon behind in San Diego - their way of burying the past, so they're out of luck. Thing would be rusty from inactivity anyhow.
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In 1996, Neil Smith of the Kansas City Chiefs said that while he despised the cannon that the Chargers fired after each of their scores, he especially hated their fight song.
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Prior to the 2007 AFC Championship Game against the Chargers, New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick said, "I hate that song." He first heard it when he was an assistant coach with the New York Giants in 1980, when the Chargers won 44-7 while Fouts threw for 444 yards. Belichick called the game a "track meet" and recalled Chargers players such as Chuck Muncie, Kellen Winslow, and John Jefferson. "They didn't get through playing that song before they had scored again and they started playing it again. It was 'San Diego Super Chargers,' that's still ringing in my head."
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Originally posted by Bolt-O View Post
I heard that Snoop Dogg fired the cannon last week, from the radio broadcast. Do you have an article that says that they left it behind, or do you go to the games?
"A recent piece in the San Diego Union-Tribune beautifully detailed the home game routine for the 70-year-old Dixon, who would drive his Chargers-themed buggy down the seven miles of surface streets between his house and Qualcomm Stadium - with his naval cannon in tow.
There he would tailgate with the "Cannon Alley Fan Club" until 90 minutes before the game, when he'd roll the cannon onto the field and fire it off whenever a Chargers score or win warranted."
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I've seen pictures of a military canon being rolled around Balboa Stadium circa 1961. And according to this article, the man who started firing off the cannon was a man named Jimmy Peluso, owner of San Diego Wireworks.
Over the years, the customer base for San Diego Fireworks broadened. "He did the Padres," Jimmy's son says. "He started the cannon for the San Diego Chargers back in Balboa Stadium. He became known as Mr. Fireworks in San Diego." https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/...-diego-county/
Jimmy Peluso would die in 1980. Ron Dixon (current Chargers Canon Man) would buy Peluso's company shortly thereafter. Dixon is also associated with San Diego's KGB Skyshow (Aztecs). Dixon would drive the canon down to The Murph, from his Tierra Santa home every Sunday, tailgate in the parking lot, then roll his canon in before the start of each game.
But that's all water under the bridge now...Last edited by Boltnut; 09-28-2019, 10:38 PM.
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Originally posted by Bolt-O View PostSo, who runs the cannon now? Some L. A. area resident or the same guy who did it before? Does that have anything to do with the business of the team?
It's all in the articles posted...
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Originally posted by SDBORN View Post
Can we survive the new stadium with this coaching staff? I don't think we can.
Time to pay some real football minds
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