AFC West

Nick Canepa: Marty Schottenheimer left his mark on Chargers, San Diego

I still have the cap. On it is the lightning bolt logo, followed by the clever: Chargers Training Camp Carson, Ca. Marty Schottenheimer, the last old-school football coach, took it off his head and tossed it to me as he was walking out of the lunch room. It was 2004, and the final day of The NFL Team That Used To Be Here’s two-year training camp experiment in Carson. He knew how disgusted I had been with the team moving their “nip-ups” (as Jerry Magee would say) out of UC San Diego to a place even his most forgiving players couldn’t stand. And I don’t think Marty was very fond of the site, him…