Swanson: San Clemente always super-proud of Super Bowl QB Sam Darnold

SAN CLEMENTE – Outside of Sam Clemente – er, San Clemente – they’re talking about Sam Darnold’s long and winding route to the Super Bowl as an epic comeback story.

To the rest of the world, it reads like receipts season. A massive I-told-you-so to all his haters and doubters and, yes, his former NFL employers, all four of them in the previous seven seasons.

But not to Darnold: “It doesn’t really come down to that for me,” he told reporters who’d been itching to tell a story of vindication...