[quote=paramount][quote=Allan from Fallbrook][quote=paramount]With all this debt people in San Diego seem to have I think I know how the Charger’s got their name.[/quote]

Paramount: I don’t know if you were being ironic or not, but do you know where the Chargers got their name?

Team founder was Barron Hilton (yeah, THAT Hilton) and named the team after… Look it up, its pretty funny.[/quote]

I was just introducing some comic relief, at any rate this is what I found:

Gerald Courtney of Hollywood won an all expenses-paid trip to Mexico City and Acapulco for submitting “Chargers” in name-the-team contest.[/quote]

I’ve read about four different versions of how they were named. I like the owner’s charge card version.