The Best Just Got Better…Again.
The Los Angeles Chargers today introduced new alternate *Charger Power* and *Super Chargers* uniforms, as well as the addition of powder blue pants to the team’s primary uniform kit.
The newest additions to the Bolts’ iconic collection of uniforms are a celebration of defining eras in both Chargers and NFL history — times when the game of football was transformed and record books were rewritten.
In the late 1970s and early 1980s, Hall of Famers Dan Fouts, Charlie Joiner and Kellen Winslow, along with dynamic receivers Wes Chandler and John Jefferson, headlined the Chargers prolific Air Coryell offense. Air Coryell, an innovative system conceptualized by Chargers Hall of Fame Head Coach Don Coryell, emphasized an aggressive, fast-paced, vertical passing attack that ultimately changed the way modern offenses are structured. It also happened to give birth to another movement: Charger Power.
Throughout the era, San Diego’s Jack Murphy Stadium was awash in a sea of gold T-shirts with ‘Charger Power’ and the team’s helmet printed on the front.
“It was wonderful. It really was,” said Fouts. “As a quarterback, one of the great, unique things you can do is quiet your own crowd. I had to do that so often so the team could hear my signals at the line of scrimmage. Charger Power was real, it wasn’t just a slogan on a T-shirt. That stadium was absolutely alive every time we took the field. We had to calm everyone down, they were so excited.”
While the all-gold Charger Power uniforms are the first of their kind to be worn by the Bolts, they manage to still evoke a sense of familiarity and capture the energy of a revolutionary chapter in Chargers football.
“We’ve always considered ourselves to be leaders in the uniform space,” said President of Business Operations A.G. Spanos. “We take pride in the fact that the Chargers are widely considered to have the best uniforms in the NFL; some even…
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