Tailgaters return to Qualcomm Stadium

Thousands of tailgaters packed into Qualcomm Stadium’s parking lot Sunday, replacing the cars and camping tents that housed wildfire evacuees all week with a field of blue-and-yellow Chargers sunshades. Smoke from blazes still burning to the east stained the sky, but the rich meat-scented haze rising from hundreds of charcoal-briquet barbecues erased any lingering wildfire smell.