"A recent item from Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune suggested that John Spanos, the son of Dean Spanos and grandson of Alex Spanos, could become the next G.M. of the Chargers. A source with knowledge of the situation tells PFT that this won't happen.

"John Spanos will never serve as the Chargers' general manager," the source said. "Some day in the future he may be in a position over all of the team's football operations and be responsible for hiring a general manager, but that's well down the road and he will never be the team's general manager."

Of course, if John Spanos, 32, is "overseeing" the football operations, he'll be serving as the General Manager's manager. Then again, every G.M. answers to someone in the organization, whether it's a member of ownership or a president/CEO with no family relationship to ownership.

In the end, then, it may just be a matter of semantics. The real question is whether and to what extent John Spanos will be actively involved in making football decisions, and whether he possesses the ability to do so."