My uncle was stationed in SD when i was a kid and lived in Murphy's canyon. I'd spend a few weeks every summer down there going to Padres games. My dad and I did a little socal swing before the all star break in 2019. Caught games in ANA, SD, and LA. Made sure to do a drive around the Murph cause I wasn't sure if it would be the last time. Miss going that place.
Same. We lived not far from there so we lived at the stadium during the 80s going to Padre games. I remember the first Super Bowl there and the pride the city felt.
Great video, Bro. RIP Coach Schottenheimer. The only bad thing about the video is the Dodger shirt your buddy has on! This demolition brings a tear to my eye
This stadium 🏟️ was like a peace of art and now since its been fully torn down its like why did they leave san Diego and i was a bolt ⚡ at one point till 2017 they left San Diego and i said im out i was a chargers fan from 2004-2017 and now they are in las Angeles is now there home 🏠 i lost all hope after rivers retired and others that made me a chargers fan i miss this stadium the nastalgia 🥹❤️ San Diego chargers will never be forgotten 🥺 but will be missed save the memory's no matter if they are in las Angeles I'm still calling them San Diego Chargers
As a Chargers, Padres, and Aztecs fan growing up in Omaha, NE, this tour meant so much to me. I was at 1984 Kodak Camera Day with my Dad and had my picture taken with Steve Garvey and saw the late legend Tony Gwynn and the NL Pennant Padres up close that Palm Sunday afternoon. Jack Murphy Stadium, the stadium's proper name, will always be my home stadium and my Field of Dreams. SD Super Chargers Forever!! Go Win the World Series, San Diego Padres!! Akbar, thanks for that walk through, buddy!
As a die hard Chargers fan, I'm glad I was able to attend at least one Charger game at Qualcomm. We lost to the Panthers (2012) but the experience was cool. Sad the stadium is gone.
This is special! Grew up in Alaska but became a Charger Fan in 1978. Grand Parents resided in Oceanside. Later followed SDSU and Marshall Faulk. Never sat in those stands so your personal tour video of Qualcomm (Jack Murphy to me) will sit in my favorites. Thank you!
SD native here. Will never forget early 90s as a kid going to Charger's games with my dad every Sunday. The team... Humphreys, Means, SEAU!!! The fans, the tail gating, the BBQ smell, watching cops arrest drunk people. I can still remember how the touchdown cannon would literally scare the shit out of me. I still remember how loud it would get in there and then The Rolling Stones - Start me Up song blasting on the speakers. Great times but dam... the place really became outdated. No renovations done what so ever. Still using that 360p resolution Jumbo screen... gtfo!
My memory of "The Murph" is as a team member of Long Beach State from 1969 to 1971. We (49ers) played the Aztecs at Jack Murphy in '69, which SDSU won 36-32, before about 45,000. Two years later, we beat the Aztecs at The Murph, 12-7. As a spectator in 1984, I was at The Murph for the Holiday Bowl. I really liked that stadium. It had a lot of life!
What an excellent video from a player's prospective. Thank you so much for posting this. So many memories there... going to games with my dad, who is now passed, the joy and the pain of rooting for my Padres, Chargers, and Aztecs. Plus the concerts I attended there. I've in the best and the worst seats in that stadium. Man, eff Spanos and eff the NFL for what they did to this city.
@@GoofysHatBand the city turned down multiple proposals too. It’s not just on dipshit Dean. Faulkner, Fabiani and all get a bite of the shit sandwich. Don’t just put it on Dean.
Akbar thank you for this great good bye video! I saw so many legends at the Murph as a kid of the 80's. Charlie Joiner, Goose Gossage, Chuck Muncie, Steve Garvey, Rolf Benirshke, Craig Lefferts, Gary "Big Hands"Johnson, Tim Flannery, Natrone Means, and of course Tony Gwynn and Junior Seau. I would argue that a lot of San Diego's Community fabric was woven at Jack Murphy Stadium. I know it was run down and dilapidated, but it was simply San Diego. So sad it's being demolished. But happy we had such a great time for 50 plus years. We were actually pretty lucky during that time. You stay classy San Diego!
Blessings to you and your brother, AZTECS for Life!! Great memories at Aztec, Charger and Padre games plus some great concerts!! I remember getting the KGB Chicken drunk on the Frozen Margaritas we used to bring to the Aztec games, best times ever. GO AZTECS, GO PADRES and yes GO BOLTS! Good luck in the future from a native San Diegan now living in east Tennessee.
YEAH DUDE my grandpa told my about the bring your own drinks there, he brought milk jugs of alcohol I think or at least he'd see people with them, never experienced it but my grandpa tells me of his experiences, go Aztecs, GO PADRES!
so many great games there...NFL, College, Baseball...so many good times and experiences...and the best of all were the Super Charger days...even though I was a Raiders fan living in SD at the time..I remember the excitement...those were the best of times...and never to be repeated...it was a different world.. thanks, Akbar....SDSU fight!
This was a great history lesson. I've been to the stadium a few times for Chargers games. I'm not a chargers fan but when LA was going through their NFL football drought this was the closest place for NFL football. The team I root for doesn't matter, I love the sport of football and played the sport through college. May the legacy of the Q, Murph, Qualcomm live on. It may be gone but not forgotten......
Being a Canadian Chargers Fan since 96, I have lots of great memories of traveling to the 619 to see my fav team of all time. Best was the win against Denver week 17 2008. Winner goes to the Playoffs. Such a great game.
@@frankdenardo8684 Ken Stabler, "The Snake." No wonder he got that nickname, ha ha. (I'm a native San Diegan, who watched the Chargers from the John Hadl days, until late in Philip Rivers' career. I never rooted for the Raiders, but they had some great players, and Stabler was one of them.)
Worked security for Elite Show Services from 1999-2002 for both Padres and Chargers. Stationed there in the Navy as my last Navy tour before retiring. Great part time job to occupy my time. Memories galore. Free NFL and MLB games right from the field.
Will never forget The Murph. As a 49ers fan living in LA, saw many greats here. Then The Murph became my second football home. Going to miss it. So many great memories
I remember the Tony Gwynn 1998 San Diego Padres. I never saw them in San Diego however, I saw them playing against the would be Home Run Chase Sammy Sosa and the Cubs in Early April 1998 at Wrigley Field. What an awesome chilly night that was.
Thanks to the Spanos and City Government we lost our San Diego Super Chargers, and lost a lot of jobs. It's unbelievable now everything is gone forever 😔
Spanos ruined what the Chargers had built. He was to greedy to pay for his own stadium so he moved and never looked back at all of us fans that would fill the stadium.
The city government had nothing to do with it other than the fact it got closed down due told crumbling and health environment violations. Perhaps they are partially at fault for not maintaining the stadium on a yearly basis over the years. In my opinion the Spanos' are to blame for them being gone because they are are nothing but impulse greedy cheap morons.
So great when a former player gives tour. I always loved that stadium. Had no idea it was that old. It's a shame what happened to this beautiful thing.
Fantastic video. I've was there with you brother deeper than you know.. When you walked on to the turf and you clapped that's when it all hit you like a freight train, huh? All the memories, the teammates, the work, playing in the backyard, Pop Warner, H.S., SDSU, practicing in an empty stadium, playing to a full stadium, the NFL, the pain in your joints you feel every day, and how much you wish somebody was with you then and there with a rifle arm that you could spend an hour with. Am I close? My thoughts and prayers for you, my old friend Webster Slaughter, and all of the friends and family grieving the loss of Coach Marty Schottenheimer.
Thank you Akbar! So many great games there. I loved that Carl Weathers story. I’m a San Diego native and a Raider Fan for life. RN4L I’ll miss the Murph ☠️
I remember running up and down the circular walkways with my cousins at games when I was a kid. This video brings back so many memories. I can’t imagine driving by the next time I’m home to visit family and see it gone. Had no idea the last time I saw it would be my last 😢
As a native of San Diego, I went to so many Padre and Chargers games at the Q watching this was honestly kind of sad, My Mom was involved in the Madres and I got to meet so Many of the Padres and their Families all the way back to when Randy Jones was a Pitcher, wow if they had social media when I was a kid, glad I found this video :)
Thank you... still remember going to charger games when a kid could afford a ticket!! Junior high Parent would drop us off early and get cheap seats or actually wood benches in end zone under scoreboard. Miss my buddy Don, he left here why too young. Saw many a game with him.
This was incredible as a lifelong Padres / Chargers fan growing up in San Diego during the 80s-90s. From All-star games in 1992 to World Series in 1998 to numerous Charger playoff games!👊🤙
A lot of memories. Jack Murphy Stadium AKA The Murph. Watched a lot of games on TV. The Holy Roller 1978, The San Francisco 49ers, and San Diego Chargers played many games both pre season and regular season games, Super Bowl XXII, XXXII, and XXXVII, the latter was final time the Super Bowl was played, who can't forget Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Monday Night Football. I saw Dan Fouts day on TV November 27th, 1988. There was a ceremony for him in which he gave a speech, the teamates congratulate him, he got a car and the team retired his 14 jersey. Fouts played for the Chargers from 1973-1987. Also a lot of legends played here: Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Kirby Puckett, Johnny Unitas, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Fran Tarkenton, Lance Allworth, Dan Marino, Walter Payton etc. Coaches Tom Landry, Bud Grant, Don Shula, Bill Walsh, John Madden, Hank Stram, Joe Gibbs...
Unfortunately it is not possible for the chargers to relocate back to San Diego. Chargers are contractually obligated to stay in LA for the next 20 years. 2049.
@@catiline1 Yes, I know that. Just being sarcastic. Can't wait to see them playing in front of thousands of tarped over seats or having only the lower bowl opened.
@@catiline1 Give them 5 years and LA will be happy to let them go. Nobody seems to care about the team there and likely won't notice if they left tomorrow.
@@catiline1 they can buy out the lease and move early if the nfl had an opportunity in sd with a brand new stadium to fatten the owners pockets. Sad as it is for me to admit this, but I think they’re moving to London
@@mikeweber1625 I feel you are a bit exaggerating, no disrespect. I believe charger games in LA will resemble those of London or Mexico. Chargers will sell out the stadium. You will have tons of fans from the opposite team the chargers play against, other fans wearing other team shirts and some casual fans. I am from LA not a big football fan but I will go to charger games here and there as a casual fan.
Not a Chargers fan but went to a Chargers game in 2016 when I was stationed in San Diego and they played the Raiders that day. On that day, I was definitely a Chargers fan and glad the Raiders got their butts handed to them.
Great documentary from a unique athlete. I wish I could have been able to go when I was in San Diego for military training. Junior Seau, Marty Schottenheimer, and countless other icons made their mark at Jack Murphy Stadium. (Qualcomm Stadium.) It's sad to see this famous landmark torn down. There's never going to be another facility like it.
It had THE BEST DESIGN of all the football/baseball stadiums of the 60s and 70s. Grass field, the open end on the southeast side to allow airflow (with the smells of Randy Jones' BBQ wafting in from there), the ground level entrance to the back of the Plaza level, a square shape like Veterans Stadium so only one field level section had to be moved, and pretty good sight lines (except in the back three rows of Plaza where you had to almost rest your head in the lap of the person next to you to see the main scoreboard). Now let's see how long it takes for the Rams to get tired of Dean Spanos crashing on their couch.
Always our stadium. Lotta PadreDodger SDSUvsBoisy and RaiderCharger great matches. The stadium that built those great rivalries. Peace is beautiful but doesn't have the gruddiness of the Q We will miss that great place
HOME!!!! A lot of memories in that stadium. A tear.....smiles...... even saw the SD Chicken hatch there!!!! To me it will forever be my boy Seau's house. JR loved that place.........man...SMH. :-(
The last game I went to at the Q I didn't even get to finish because of a lightning storm and we ended up leaving. Unfortunately, a very fitting sad memory as the last game I would see.
It's vile that people with money can just up sticks take the club with them.. I'm from Ireland when people say the chargers first thing comes to mind 🇺🇲San Diego 🇺🇲 it's tribal, it's identity, it's who you represent when you leave your city to travel the world and it's taking away.. so so sad great video🇮🇪🇺🇲
Akbar! My dude, long time no talk! Miss the old charger days... It's Jay Jay by the way. Staff Assistant/PR Writer from back in the day. Looks like we both got youtube channels now! haha
That’s a bummer. I’m an Angels fan in the OC but we did also like the Padres and would go down to Jack Murphy to watch some games and of course watch Tony Gwynn. My cousins friend is John Flaherty too so it was cool hanging out with him after the game. Sad to see it go. To bad the Chargers couldn’t renovate and use it. It would be a much better situation then what they have in LA, I don’t care how expensive that new stadium is, Their fan base and home is San Diego not disgusting LA. Just as the Angels home and fan base is Anaheim NOT LA, but that’s another story. Lot of good memories of Jack Murphy. I’ll miss it. 🤙🏻
Moved outta San Diego awhile ago n man I’ll forever miss walking to talk the trolley instead of driving to the q and huh when did they change it to sdccu stadium
Being a San Diego native I’ve seen a lot of great things and events at that stadium. But one of the strangest things I saw was in (I think) 1984 when I went to a Def Leppard and Blue Oyster Cult concert. And when I was walking around the outside sidewalk to find the gate to go in, I saw Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth walking on the same sidewalk, and they weren’t on the bill. And mind you, they were big stars by then. They were just there to watch the concert. Weird!
So many games and concerts lost to memory It doesn't even look like San Diego It might as well be a distant planet Imagine Los Angeles without Dodger Stadium What's so good about progress, anyway?
Sad seeing iconic stadiums and sports venues get torn down usually for a shopping center or houses to be built in the area left behind. Feel bad for San Diego citizens losing their team.
I have bad memories of this place unfortunately. I was 14 with my 16 y/o bro, both Colts fans here for a Colts/Chargers game back in '97. We were decked out in Colts gear and just respectively, not annoyingly, cheering our team. The Charger fans were HORRIBLE towards us. I know we were in "enemy territory " and opposition was expected but those fans were throwing spit balls, trash, and half full beer cups at us. Those were "adult" Charger fans and we were JUST KIDS!!! Like why TF are you throwing stuff at a 14 y/o boy!!?? I get it if we were rowdy adults, but no, we were JUST KIDS!!!
Did allot of games there as a slow mo replay guy. Funny thing is we got there six hours before the game and left two hours after. Every stadium I ever worked at I know as a silent stadium without fans in it because I worked in the truck. The only difference is after the game they all were dirty smelled like spilt beer. RIP Marty and may God bless those that are low in the heart with your passing.
My dad told me, when he got to meet Ron Rivera and a tour around the stadium, the lockeroom smelled like straight musty clothes. The first day I was watched a football game here, was the last playoff season in San Diego.
This was hard to watch. My entire experience of high school football was based on getting to "The Murph" and it's just gone. Everything is temporary I guess. 😔
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He just lived every Chargers fan dream to do one final walk through and enjoy all the memories. I’ll forever Miss Jack Murphy Stadium 😥
My uncle was stationed in SD when i was a kid and lived in Murphy's canyon. I'd spend a few weeks every summer down there going to Padres games. My dad and I did a little socal swing before the all star break in 2019. Caught games in ANA, SD, and LA. Made sure to do a drive around the Murph cause I wasn't sure if it would be the last time. Miss going that place.
And Padres fans 😢
Not every. /
@@jordanjohnson9866 that’s your issue
Same. We lived not far from there so we lived at the stadium during the 80s going to Padre games. I remember the first Super Bowl there and the pride the city felt.
Thank you, Akbar. This means a lot to us old Chargers fans...
I'm a Dolphins and this meant alot ro me. Infinite love to all you Chargers fans. This video is emotional as fck. Wholy
Now you know nothing is free. If you want football you have to pay the small tax fee im laughing at you losers spanos was gonna pay his portion
Hoping Coach M. Schottenheimer gets more love in the upcoming days since he's been moved to Hospice care.
May the great Mart Schottenheimer rest in peace.
RIP coach. Such a shame none of your teams couldn't get you to that SB appearance that you greatly deserved. Thought '06 was gonna be it
Yeeeeah, he dived. Rip
Great video, Bro. RIP Coach Schottenheimer. The only bad thing about the video is the Dodger shirt your buddy has on! This demolition brings a tear to my eye
Saw that too. Should’ve kicked him out😂
This stadium 🏟️ was like a peace of art and now since its been fully torn down its like why did they leave san Diego and i was a bolt ⚡ at one point till 2017 they left San Diego and i said im out i was a chargers fan from 2004-2017 and now they are in las Angeles is now there home 🏠 i lost all hope after rivers retired and others that made me a chargers fan i miss this stadium the nastalgia 🥹❤️ San Diego chargers will never be forgotten 🥺 but will be missed save the memory's no matter if they are in las Angeles I'm still calling them San Diego Chargers
As a Chargers, Padres, and Aztecs fan growing up in Omaha, NE, this tour meant so much to me. I was at 1984 Kodak Camera Day with my Dad and had my picture taken with Steve Garvey and saw the late legend Tony Gwynn and the NL Pennant Padres up close that Palm Sunday afternoon. Jack Murphy Stadium, the stadium's proper name, will always be my home stadium and my Field of Dreams. SD Super Chargers Forever!! Go Win the World Series, San Diego Padres!! Akbar, thanks for that walk through, buddy!
As a die hard Chargers fan, I'm glad I was able to attend at least one Charger game at Qualcomm. We lost to the Panthers (2012) but the experience was cool. Sad the stadium is gone.
so many great padres / chargers memories now gone forever... 🥀
Memories can’t be erased
Though the stadium is gone, the memories continue on...
I grew up in this stadium! So many great memories! Thanks for video this! The Murph will be missed!
The minute they started naming stadiums after corporate sponsors you knew it was over.
Started with Jerry Buss. Made a deal with Great Western Savings to put the name on the Forum. Beginning of the end.
Agreed
Ok negative person leave that for your own personal household . Just because your life is f***** up
This is special! Grew up in Alaska but became a Charger Fan in 1978. Grand Parents resided in Oceanside. Later followed SDSU and Marshall Faulk. Never sat in those stands so your personal tour video of Qualcomm (Jack Murphy to me) will sit in my favorites. Thank you!
SD native here. Will never forget early 90s as a kid going to Charger's games with my dad every Sunday. The team... Humphreys, Means, SEAU!!!
The fans, the tail gating, the BBQ smell, watching cops arrest drunk people. I can still remember how the touchdown cannon would literally scare the shit out of me. I still remember how loud it would get in there and then The Rolling Stones - Start me Up song blasting on the speakers. Great times but dam... the place really became outdated. No renovations done what so ever. Still using that 360p resolution Jumbo screen... gtfo!
Half way trough this.. BIG THANKS!
Thank you for the final tour!!! Aztec for Life!!!
My memory of "The Murph" is as a team member of Long Beach State from 1969 to 1971. We (49ers) played the Aztecs at Jack Murphy in '69, which SDSU won 36-32, before about 45,000. Two years later, we beat the Aztecs at The Murph, 12-7. As a spectator in 1984, I was at The Murph for the Holiday Bowl. I really liked that stadium. It had a lot of life!
I was there for the last Padre game in 2003... I no longer live in CA, but this is one of my favorite places... so sad it will soon be gone :(. RIP Q
Sadly, it’s already gone.
I was there too. I’m a huge Dodger fan. Yet, I had to be there for the curtain to fall. Always enjoyed seeing games there over the years.
RIP Marty Schottenheimer 😢
He says hello he misses you
What an excellent video from a player's prospective. Thank you so much for posting this.
So many memories there... going to games with my dad, who is now passed, the joy and the pain of rooting for my Padres, Chargers, and Aztecs. Plus the concerts I attended there. I've in the best and the worst seats in that stadium. Man, eff Spanos and eff the NFL for what they did to this city.
The city gets their bite too.
@@turtle19dad what are you even talking about?
@@GoofysHatBand the city turned down multiple proposals too. It’s not just on dipshit Dean. Faulkner, Fabiani and all get a bite of the shit sandwich. Don’t just put it on Dean.
@@turtle19dad Fabiana was Dean's boy. Dean never negotiated in good faith. Stop simping for the wealthy.
@@GoofysHatBand they were all guilty of shit!
Akbar thank you for this great good bye video! I saw so many legends at the Murph as a kid of the 80's. Charlie Joiner, Goose Gossage, Chuck Muncie, Steve Garvey, Rolf Benirshke, Craig Lefferts, Gary "Big Hands"Johnson, Tim Flannery, Natrone Means, and of course Tony Gwynn and Junior Seau. I would argue that a lot of San Diego's Community fabric was woven at Jack Murphy Stadium. I know it was run down and dilapidated, but it was simply San Diego. So sad it's being demolished. But happy we had such a great time for 50 plus years. We were actually pretty lucky during that time. You stay classy San Diego!
That's so cool I miss that place. There will never be another stadium like it. Great insight from an awesome player who saw it at a deeper level.
Thank you! Sir you are expressing everything many of us feel. God Bless you!
Blessings to you and your brother, AZTECS for Life!! Great memories at Aztec, Charger and Padre games plus some great concerts!! I remember getting the KGB Chicken drunk on the Frozen Margaritas we used to bring to the Aztec games, best times ever. GO AZTECS, GO PADRES and yes GO BOLTS! Good luck in the future from a native San Diegan now living in east Tennessee.
YEAH DUDE my grandpa told my about the bring your own drinks there, he brought milk jugs of alcohol I think or at least he'd see people with them, never experienced it but my grandpa tells me of his experiences, go Aztecs, GO PADRES!
so many great games there...NFL, College, Baseball...so many good times and experiences...and the best of all were the Super Charger days...even though I was a Raiders fan living in SD at the time..I remember the excitement...those were the best of times...and never to be repeated...it was a different world..
thanks, Akbar....SDSU fight!
A lot of great times there. Thanks for sharing RIP Marty. 🙏
Wow I love this video. Many great memories going to Pads, Chargers and Aztec games.
Thank you for doing this film, Akbar! Means a lot.
San Diego Raider fan here. Rest in Peace Qualcomm Stadium, the Murph, the Q, SDCCU stadium. Whatever the name the memories will last still the same
I went to a LOT of Raider Games in SD, as well...Loved the experiences...
This was a great history lesson. I've been to the stadium a few times for Chargers games. I'm not a chargers fan but when LA was going through their NFL football drought this was the closest place for NFL football. The team I root for doesn't matter, I love the sport of football and played the sport through college. May the legacy of the Q, Murph, Qualcomm live on. It may be gone but not forgotten......
Being a Canadian Chargers Fan since 96, I have lots of great memories of traveling to the 619 to see my fav team of all time. Best was the win against Denver week 17 2008. Winner goes to the Playoffs. Such a great game.
Junior Seau's Stadium
FOREVER 55!
Se Au! Remember that.
As a Raider fan, I definitely miss Qualcomm . A lot of great memories there.
There were years that there was more action in the stands than in the games when the Raiders visited.
Except when you guys played in that super bowl down here
@@bennyg3955 Yeah that day sucked lol
The Holy Roller September 10th, 1978.
@@frankdenardo8684 Ken Stabler, "The Snake." No wonder he got that nickname, ha ha. (I'm a native San Diegan, who watched the Chargers from the John Hadl days, until late in Philip Rivers' career. I never rooted for the Raiders, but they had some great players, and Stabler was one of them.)
Worked security for Elite Show Services from 1999-2002 for both Padres and Chargers. Stationed there in the Navy as my last Navy tour before retiring. Great part time job to occupy my time. Memories galore. Free NFL and MLB games right from the field.
Crazy, the Chargers Logo is still in the lockerroom
I wonder they took it out before the stadium was torn down to be preserved somewhere safe. I hope they did.
R.I.P. Marty Schottenheimer. 😔
Damn... this was pure love man. 😢
Will never forget The Murph. As a 49ers fan living in LA, saw many greats here. Then The Murph became my second football home. Going to miss it. So many great memories
I remember the Tony Gwynn 1998 San Diego Padres. I never saw them in San Diego however, I saw them playing against the would be Home Run Chase Sammy Sosa and the Cubs in Early April 1998 at Wrigley Field. What an awesome chilly night that was.
AZTEC4LIFE...Great stories here!
RIP Schottenheimer.
Thanks to the Spanos and City Government we lost our San Diego Super Chargers, and lost a lot of jobs. It's unbelievable now everything is gone forever 😔
Spanos ruined what the Chargers had built. He was to greedy to pay for his own stadium so he moved and never looked back at all of us fans that would fill the stadium.
More like thanks to the City government.
The city government had nothing to do with it other than the fact it got closed down due told crumbling and health environment violations. Perhaps they are partially at fault for not maintaining the stadium on a yearly basis over the years. In my opinion the Spanos' are to blame for them being gone because they are are nothing but impulse greedy cheap morons.
Absolute bs what they did to us.
Better team than the Chargers will come one day
So great when a former player gives tour. I always loved that stadium. Had no idea it was that old. It's a shame what happened to this beautiful thing.
Fantastic video. I've was there with you brother deeper than you know..
When you walked on to the turf and you clapped that's when it all hit you like a freight train, huh?
All the memories, the teammates, the work, playing in the backyard, Pop Warner, H.S., SDSU, practicing in an empty stadium, playing to a full stadium, the NFL, the pain in your joints you feel every day, and how much you wish somebody was with you then and there with a rifle arm that you could spend an hour with.
Am I close?
My thoughts and prayers for you, my old friend Webster Slaughter, and all of the friends and family grieving the loss of Coach Marty Schottenheimer.
Thank you Akbar! So many great games there. I loved that Carl Weathers story. I’m a San Diego native and a Raider Fan for life. RN4L I’ll miss the Murph ☠️
This video was awsome. Thank you for sharing . 💪🙏🤝🚀
Many memories there. Thanks for sharing yours. 👍🤠😎😉
I remember running up and down the circular walkways with my cousins at games when I was a kid. This video brings back so many memories. I can’t imagine driving by the next time I’m home to visit family and see it gone. Had no idea the last time I saw it would be my last 😢
Believe me. That’s all I still think of when I go by. Especially after I lost my dad who made me a Chargers and Padres fan.
As a native of San Diego, I went to so many Padre and Chargers games at the Q watching this was honestly kind of sad, My Mom was involved in the Madres and I got to meet so Many of the Padres and their Families all the way back to when Randy Jones was a Pitcher, wow if they had social media when I was a kid, glad I found this video :)
Thank you... still remember going to charger games when a kid could afford a ticket!! Junior high
Parent would drop us off early and get cheap seats or actually wood benches in end zone under scoreboard. Miss my buddy Don, he left here why too young. Saw many a game with him.
RIP Marty Schottenheimer
For how beautiful that stadium is that going to tear it down
anybody remember the Jethro Tull Concert, with Tull-O-Vision?? I grew up 5 miles away.
This was incredible as a lifelong Padres / Chargers fan growing up in San Diego during the 80s-90s. From All-star games in 1992 to World Series in 1998 to numerous Charger playoff games!👊🤙
The stadium was built the same year I was born in San Diego. Grew up going there. Sad times...
A lot of memories. Jack Murphy Stadium AKA The Murph. Watched a lot of games on TV. The Holy Roller 1978, The San Francisco 49ers, and San Diego Chargers played many games both pre season and regular season games, Super Bowl XXII, XXXII, and XXXVII, the latter was final time the Super Bowl was played, who can't forget Howard Cosell, Frank Gifford, Don Meredith and Monday Night Football. I saw Dan Fouts day on TV November 27th, 1988. There was a ceremony for him in which he gave a speech, the teamates congratulate him, he got a car and the team retired his 14 jersey. Fouts played for the Chargers from 1973-1987.
Also a lot of legends played here: Joe Namath, Joe Montana, Kirby Puckett, Johnny Unitas, Terry Bradshaw, Roger Staubach, Fran Tarkenton, Lance Allworth, Dan Marino, Walter Payton etc. Coaches Tom Landry, Bud Grant, Don Shula, Bill Walsh, John Madden, Hank Stram, Joe Gibbs...
I'm so sad. I have so many awesome memories there as a child and a young adult. I will always miss and love Jack Murphy Stadium ❤❤❤❤
Loved the Murph.
This was so cool. Would love to see more players do this at abandoned stadiums.
Land cleared. The future site of the Chargers new stadium when they realize they are not gonna cut it in LA drawing 29,000 Fans a game.
Unfortunately it is not possible for the chargers to relocate back to San Diego. Chargers are contractually obligated to stay in LA for the next 20 years. 2049.
@@catiline1 Yes, I know that. Just being sarcastic. Can't wait to see them playing in front of thousands of tarped over seats or having only the lower bowl opened.
@@catiline1 Give them 5 years and LA will be happy to let them go. Nobody seems to care about the team there and likely won't notice if they left tomorrow.
@@catiline1 they can buy out the lease and move early if the nfl had an opportunity in sd with a brand new stadium to fatten the owners pockets. Sad as it is for me to admit this, but I think they’re moving to London
@@mikeweber1625 I feel you are a bit exaggerating, no disrespect. I believe charger games in LA will resemble those of London or Mexico. Chargers will sell out the stadium. You will have tons of fans from the opposite team the chargers play against, other fans wearing other team shirts and some casual fans. I am from LA not a big football fan but I will go to charger games here and there as a casual fan.
As far as I am concerned It’s The Murph!
I always called it the Murph, the heck with the other names. Loved watching Tony Gwynn and the Pads back then.
Proves you're too young.........It'll always be San Diego Stadium to me
Not a Chargers fan but went to a Chargers game in 2016 when I was stationed in San Diego and they played the Raiders that day. On that day, I was definitely a Chargers fan and glad the Raiders got their butts handed to them.
Great documentary from a unique athlete. I wish I could have been able to go when I was in San Diego for military training. Junior Seau, Marty Schottenheimer, and countless other icons made their mark at Jack Murphy Stadium. (Qualcomm Stadium.)
It's sad to see this famous landmark torn down. There's never going to be another facility like it.
This was in my recomendations. UA-cam did something right lol.
It had THE BEST DESIGN of all the football/baseball stadiums of the 60s and 70s. Grass field, the open end on the southeast side to allow airflow (with the smells of Randy Jones' BBQ wafting in from there), the ground level entrance to the back of the Plaza level, a square shape like Veterans Stadium so only one field level section had to be moved, and pretty good sight lines (except in the back three rows of Plaza where you had to almost rest your head in the lap of the person next to you to see the main scoreboard). Now let's see how long it takes for the Rams to get tired of Dean Spanos crashing on their couch.
Amazingly awesome video. Subbed and belled.
Always our stadium. Lotta PadreDodger SDSUvsBoisy and RaiderCharger great matches. The stadium that built those great rivalries. Peace is beautiful but doesn't have the gruddiness of the Q
We will miss that great place
Great stories, thank you!
I used to live 5 minutes away from this stadium when I lived in San Diego, so many memories (chargers & padres).
HOME!!!! A lot of memories in that stadium. A tear.....smiles...... even saw the SD Chicken hatch there!!!! To me it will forever be my boy Seau's house. JR loved that place.........man...SMH. :-(
Thx for the memories. Qualcomm aka "Jack Murphy Stadium."
The last game I went to at the Q I didn't even get to finish because of a lightning storm and we ended up leaving. Unfortunately, a very fitting sad memory as the last game I would see.
Do you remember the date?
@@DrBoulter Oct 12, 2018 SDSU vs Air Force
I went to the last Chargers game ever played there (they lost to the Chiefs). That was the last time I was in that stadium.
Being a Canadian Chargers Fan since 96,
Wow! So he played there? That’s really cool.
I don’t know anything about the sport this guy played I guess it’s American Football but I loved this video! What a nice guy he is
It's vile that people with money can just up sticks take the club with them.. I'm from Ireland when people say the chargers first thing comes to mind 🇺🇲San Diego 🇺🇲 it's tribal, it's identity, it's who you represent when you leave your city to travel the world and it's taking away.. so so sad great video🇮🇪🇺🇲
Tony Gywnn, you are still my guy ... ☝️👍🙏😁
Dreams will last forever
Akbar! My dude, long time no talk! Miss the old charger days... It's Jay Jay by the way. Staff Assistant/PR Writer from back in the day. Looks like we both got youtube channels now! haha
Bruh, take Akbar on a walking tour for a cross over video.
Growing up in San Diego I'll always remember walking up those signature spiral ramps entering and exiting the stadium
That’s a bummer. I’m an Angels fan in the OC but we did also like the Padres and would go down to Jack Murphy to watch some games and of course watch Tony Gwynn. My cousins friend is John Flaherty too so it was cool hanging out with him after the game. Sad to see it go. To bad the Chargers couldn’t renovate and use it. It would be a much better situation then what they have in LA, I don’t care how expensive that new stadium is, Their fan base and home is San Diego not disgusting LA. Just as the Angels home and fan base is Anaheim NOT LA, but that’s another story. Lot of good memories of Jack Murphy. I’ll miss it. 🤙🏻
Moved outta San Diego awhile ago n man I’ll forever miss walking to talk the trolley instead of driving to the q and huh when did they change it to sdccu stadium
Being a San Diego native I’ve seen a lot of great things and events at that stadium. But one of the strangest things I saw was in (I think) 1984 when I went to a Def Leppard and Blue Oyster Cult concert. And when I was walking around the outside sidewalk to find the gate to go in, I saw Eddie Van Halen and David Lee Roth walking on the same sidewalk, and they weren’t on the bill. And mind you, they were big stars by then. They were just there to watch the concert. Weird!
Why did they tear it down!? The stadium could’ve been a historic landmark…
I miss the chargers being San Diego. Though I’ve been a life long lions fan but the chargers was my favorite team in the afc
So many games and concerts lost to memory
It doesn't even look like San Diego
It might as well be a distant planet
Imagine Los Angeles without Dodger Stadium
What's so good about progress, anyway?
Do you remember any of the crazy BYU Football games? I'm of course a BYU fan but there's been some crazy ones
Loved watching my AZTECS beat the shit out of the damn mormons.
Sad seeing iconic stadiums and sports venues get torn down usually for a shopping center or houses to be built in the area left behind. Feel bad for San Diego citizens losing their team.
I attended one game there...Chargers preseason 1977.
Thank you 🙏🏿 the years we lived at home real chargers 🔌 Gang 619 Townbizz
Are they building a new stadium? What are the plans?
Nice touch... his friend is wearing a Dodgers shirt.... :)
Noticed that. Thought that was funny.
I have bad memories of this place unfortunately. I was 14 with my 16 y/o bro, both Colts fans here for a Colts/Chargers game back in '97. We were decked out in Colts gear and just respectively, not annoyingly, cheering our team. The Charger fans were HORRIBLE towards us. I know we were in "enemy territory " and opposition was expected but those fans were throwing spit balls, trash, and half full beer cups at us. Those were "adult" Charger fans and we were JUST KIDS!!! Like why TF are you throwing stuff at a 14 y/o boy!!?? I get it if we were rowdy adults, but no, we were JUST KIDS!!!
Oakland Raiders would take over this whole stadium when we came😭🤣🤣
Did allot of games there as a slow mo replay guy. Funny thing is we got there six hours before the game and left two hours after. Every stadium I ever worked at I know as a silent stadium without fans in it because I worked in the truck. The only difference is after the game they all were dirty smelled like spilt beer. RIP Marty and may God bless those that are low in the heart with your passing.
Old and outdated stadium by modern standards but still very functional.
Soooooo where's San Diego State Football team playing their home games at now? I remember the Raiders games there. Great atmosphere
In the meantime up in L.A at the Galaxy Stadium until the new stadium is built on the old Qualcomm Stadium site
My dad told me, when he got to meet Ron Rivera and a tour around the stadium, the lockeroom smelled like straight musty clothes. The first day I was watched a football game here, was the last playoff season in San Diego.
I went the USC Vs Iowa game. Last game to ever be played at the stadium.
RIP Marty
Did he talk about this while he was a cohost for American Ninja Warrior?
Did they paint the locker room over after the chargers left?
Pretty sad when Padres and SDSU can both get stadiums but the chargers couldn't. LA isn't home for them and I'm a niners fan
This was hard to watch. My entire experience of high school football was based on getting to "The Murph" and it's just gone. Everything is temporary I guess. 😔