Charger Game
It was the first football season for the Chargers. No, they were not the San Diego Chargers. They were the Los Angeles Chargers and they played in the Los Angeles Coliseum with Sid Gilman as their head coach. They played in the new American Football League and the scores were usually about 50 or 60 points each.
I had a good seat in the coliseum on about the 50 yard line and there were only a very few thousand people there. Not only was the high scoring game enjoyable, but some of the fans caught my eye. Sitting in the row ahead of me and a couple seats over were Ozzie Nelson and his sons David and Ricky. I always enjoyed the Ozzie and Harriett TV show when the boys were young and now enjoyed watching them as young men in real life.
It was an interesting afternoon.
The next year the Chargers moved to
David and Rickey Nelson were about this age when I saw them the Charger game.
More about the Ozzie Nelson family
Orchestra leader who became the emblem for the 1950s typical American family with his actress wife and sons. Although he originally wanted to be a cartoonist, Ozzie went to law school, doing band-leader gigs to pay for his courses. By 1931, he was a full-fledged band leader, able to play all of the band instruments except the trumpet and also write songs. He hired Harriet in 1932 to sing for his band, and married her three years later. In 1944, they started The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet on radio which later switched to television in a run that would stretch to twenty-two years: eight on radio and fourteen on television. Originally the boys were played by actors but were replaced by their sons, David and Ricky.
