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Arash Markazi: Five ways the Chargers can succeed in LA (spoiler alert: Kobe's involved)

LOS ANGELES - The Chargers are not moving to London.

Dean Spanos did his best profanity-laced impersonation of Leonardo DiCaprio from "Wolf of Wall Street" Tuesday as he shot down an internet report that it could happen. The team's official social media accounts actually posted the famous "I'm not leaving" scene, complete with middle fingers and bleeped-out expletives.

As far as denials go, that's about as emphatic as you're going to get. It's no surprise. London isn't the answer to the Chargers' problems in Los Angeles.

The Chargers are the second pro football team in L.A. In London, they would be 14th

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