Popular with co-workers, players and media, Rogers-Thompson worked more than 30 years for club before retiring in 1995
Rogers-Thompson joined the club on April 1, 1963 and worked through the 1995 season before retiring. Among many other things, she was instrumental in beginning the popular Chargers Blood Drive in 1979 after kicker Rolf Benirschke became ill.
“It was a day I’ll never forget,” Rogers told Tom Krasovic of the Union-Tribune in 1991. “Not in my entire life. I may forget everything else in this entire world, but I’ll never forget that.”She began working for the Chargers during the early days of the American Football League when the team was headquartered at the Lafayette Hotel on El Cajon Boulevard.
“Very small,” Rogers-Thompson told Canepa. “We were in a hotel, so every office had its own bathroom. We used ours for storage. Bill Johnston, who joined the team’s PR department in 1979 and worked until the team moved to Los Angeles in 2017, said “Pat kind of took me under her wing when I had a little corner of her office when I started at the Chargers as a 21-year-old kid. She was like a second mom to me.
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