San Diego Radio: Nick Hardwick Steps-Away From Chargers Gig

Nick Hardwick

Nick Hardwick is dropping his radio gig with the Los Angeles Chargers so he can have more family time in San Diego with his wife and two sons, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.

“Simply, I am no longer able to miss out on as many weekends with my family as the football season requires,” he wrote in an article on the team’s website Thursday.

Hardwick, 36, was a center on six San Diego teams that reached the NFL playoffs.

He worked as a color analyst last year after reversing his original decision not to follow the team to greater L.A.. It was his third season with the club’s radio crew.

The hours devoted to broadcasting can go to not only home life but Hardwick’s and his wife’s ownership venture with a San Diego gym, Renegade Fit Camp.

Hardwick, who will continue as a sports talk show co-host with San Diego’s KLSD 1360-AM, said he’ll still cheer for the Chargers, the only team to employ him in his 136-game NFL career.