The San Diego Chargers’ twitter account is @Chargers, which makes sense. However, once upon a time, @Chargers was not the official voice of the San Diego Chargers. It was the Twitter account of Joel Price, who still works in digital media for the Chargers and now tweets from @joelprice, mainly about bikes and the Chargers.
Why did the Chargers Twitter account used to tweet about PF Changs so much?
The history of the Chargers account includes a lot of random tweets, and a deep love of PF Changs.
However, when he switched from tweeting from @chargers to @joelprice, he left @chargers as an account with several months of his musings. These tweets still exist, and since they were sent from @chargers, they appear to be official dispatches from an NFL team.
For whatever reason, I find these tweets absolutely hilarious, whether you read them as the NFL team the Chargers saying them, or a person tweeting on behalf of the Chargers, informing everybody about the musings of his day. I hope they never disappear.
(Note: Shout-out to @lana and @BrianPickett for occasionally resurfacing these, for example, tonight during Sunday Night Football.)
The Chargers love PF Chang’s!
soo hungry need to find my wife and head to pf changs
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 20, 2007
pf changs is so good
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 22, 2007
The Chargers are really excited about SXSW!
Need to find a late Sunday night return flight from San Antonio to San Diego need to be back on Monday but I don't want to miss SXSW
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 22, 2007
just booked my room for SXSW not cheap when you wait this late in the game.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 24, 2007
looking over the SXSW web site on sessions I will want to attend. less then two week I will be in Texas
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 27, 2007
need to make a list of SXSW presentation I will want to attend.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 28, 2007
I'm checking my SXSW itinerary. Man I can't wait. It appears Austin temperature is much like San Diego this time of the year.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 7, 2007
OH NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
I had to cancel my trip to Austin for the SXSW show last minute.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 11, 2007
The Chargers are tired!
I will be going to bed early. I will awake early and fire up PhotoShop for a day of pixel pushing.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 23, 2007
going to bed.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 16, 2007
going to bed.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 16, 2007
I must stop staying up so late.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 19, 2007
It's late and I need to go to bed. staying up late is catching up to me.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 23, 2007
Going to bed. Will pick it all back up in the morning.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) January 27, 2007
The Chargers are always working!
off to the office
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 6, 2007
off to a late meeting
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 7, 2007
I'm home from the office and just had some left overs and off to a meeting.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 23, 2007
When I say I'm not coming in to the office in the morning it doesn’t mean I'm not working.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 15, 2007
I'm leaving the office and its 5:23? That's a record!
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 16, 2007
time to go home. I cant believe I'm still at the office.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 20, 2007
The Chargers are slowly figuring out how the Internet works! Specifically 2007-era Internet:
Still trying to figure out twitter. It has a strange draw but I don't know why I keep coming back.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 20, 2007
setup our teams myspace page, this is a project that I was going to do last year.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 1, 2007
launched a myspace page for the Chargers and we are going to hit 400 friends today for sure
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 7, 2007
I need to spend a weekend learning the ends and outs of wordpress.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 15, 2007
working on my wordpress blog.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 19, 2007
getting way too much spam on my blog
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) February 28, 2007
Testing from my Palm 700p. I will see how it looks in the am. Really going to bed this time.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) January 27, 2007
And then one day... it’s gone:
i have a personal twitter account now: http://twitter.com/joelprice the chargers twitter will become more about the chargers less about me.
— San Diego Chargers (@Chargers) March 26, 2007
You should give Joel a follow -- he has a sense of humor about his early tweets:
BIG thanks for the complimentary lettuce wraps. @PFChangs definitely knows how to make our day better. #Chargers pic.twitter.com/flxTNuAMcf
— Joel Price (@joelprice) November 3, 2014
And I'm glad he's decided to leave them up for posterity.
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