Can someone tell me why we didn’t pay our players?
This is our Chargers owner:
“Officials say the hardest to handicap are athletes, because they are accustomed to competition and often have golf games that can improve dramatically with a week of intense play and practice.
This was the excuse given by nonathlete Dean Spanos of Stockton, Calif:, (the son of Alex Spanos, owner of the San Diego Chargers football team) when he won the Crosby for the second time in 1990, the same year he won the pro-am portion of the Bob Hope Desert Classic. There were mutterings and complaints, but Spanos maintained that his 11-handicap was genuine and that he had just practiced a lot. Spanos kept his title but has not been invited back.” Read Full Story
| Year / Total Payroll | |
| 2010 | |
| NFL Teams | Total Payroll |
| NFL Oakland Raiders Team Salaries | $ 152,389,371 |
| NFL Dallas Cowboys Team Salaries | $ 146,401,600 |
| NFL Minnesota Vikings Team Salaries | $ 133,354,045 |
| NFL Cleveland Browns Team Salaries | $ 131,916,300 |
| NFL New Orleans Saints Team Salaries | $ 131,531,820 |
| NFL Pittsburgh Steelers Team Salaries | $ 128,815,061 |
| NFL Tennessee Titans Team Salaries | $ 126,017,443 |
| NFL Arizona Cardinals Team Salaries | $ 122,110,110 |
| NFL Jacksonville Jaguars Team Salaries | $ 122,109,207 |
| NFL Chicago Bears Team Salaries | $ 120,065,819 |
| NFL San Francisco 49ers Team Salaries | $ 118,766,239 |
| NFL New York Jets Team Salaries | $ 116,910,097 |
| NFL St. Louis Rams Team Salaries | $ 116,677,660 |
| NFL New York Giants Team Salaries | $ 115,816,180 |
| NFL Miami Dolphins Team Salaries | $ 114,649,660 |
| NFL Buffalo Bills Team Salaries | $ 113,364,927 |
| NFL Carolina Panthers Team Salaries | $ 112,114,711 |
| NFL Washington Redskins Team Salaries | $ 111,963,684 |
| NFL San Diego Chargers Team Salaries | $ 111,813,340 |
| NFL Cincinnati Bengals Team Salaries | $ 109,727,880 |
| NFL Philadelphia Eagles Team Salaries | $ 109,557,398 |
| NFL Houston Texans Team Salaries | $ 108,445,418 |
| NFL Tampa Bay Buccaneers Team Salaries | $ 104,329,311 |
| NFL Seattle Seahawks Team Salaries | $ 102,985,710 |
| NFL Atlanta Falcons Team Salaries | $ 96,391,525 |
| NFL Detroit Lions Team Salaries | $ 95,827,117 |
| NFL Denver Broncos Team Salaries | $ 95,599,778 |
| NFL Green Bay Packers Team Salaries | $ 94,018,300 |
| NFL Indianapolis Colts Team Salaries | $ 93,373,915 |
| NFL New England Patriots Team Salaries | $ 92,734,120 |
| NFL Baltimore Ravens Team Salaries | $ 90,713,965 |
| NFL Kansas City Chiefs Team Salaries | $ 83,623,776 |
San Diego Sportswire 
You need to look at END OF THE YEAR totals instead of before the season totals.