Before the Chargers announced a move to Los Angeles, quarterback Philip Rivers was adamant that he wouldn’t leave San Diego. He was even hesitant to re-sign with the team as long as relocation was a possibility.
Philip Rivers bought a ridiculously cool SUV so he can study film during his San Diego-Los Angeles commute
Philip Rivers is going to keep living in San Diego and travel Southern California freeways in style.
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But now that the Chargers are in Los Angeles, Rivers found a solution. He’ll just stay in San Diego and make the more-than-80-mile commute to and from the team’s practice facility in Costa Mesa in the coolest SUV ever.
Three days a week, Rivers will make the trip — which takes about an hour and 18 minutes, according to the quarterback — in a vehicle that cost him about $200,000 and is essentially a mobile film room.
Rivers has satellite TV, Wi-Fi, a small refrigerator and a 40-inch television that makes his new SUV the “best QB room [he’s] ever been in.”
He’ll also have to pay a driver’s salary, but Rivers is due to make $14 million in 2017, so he shouldn’t have any problem fitting it into his budget.
“My two biggest things were my family time and my preparation and what I owe this football team,” Rivers told the San Diego Union-Tribune. “I was not going to sacrifice either of them in any big proportion. I can look at all the pluses and minuses and say, ‘OK. This does it.’ This allows me to get home in the six to seven hours, which is when I got home the last 11 years, and it allows me to watch all or more of the film I watched before.”
Rivers is a father of eight children and told the Union-Tribune that he considered moving to Orange County but felt like his mobile film room was a much more hassle-free way to avoid a move. His new awesome SUV is a good solution.
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