Still Ranting And Rambling About Week 7

This pic comes from the site Straight Cash Homey Dot Net.  I gotta say, looks like a pretty genius page.  Anyway, I’ve vented every day this week about the Chargers.  I am sure you saw the Sports Illustrated piece from this week on the Bolts.  This was my response:

Sorry, Damon.  Only we can do that to our pledges.  No one is more frustrated with the January flameouts than Charger fans.  But this week’s article was nothing more than you hopping on the NY tabloids (and SD papers) to run with a theme.  The Bolts need to prove themselves against physical teams, but coming East isn’t the problem.  As you pointed out, they lost 2 first round games (coming off 14 and 13 win seasons) in their own stadium.  But let’s not throw the ’07 and ’08 teams in there.  I don’t remember SI calling the loss at New England another SD failure.  That’s because you guys were falling all over yourselves to praise the Patriots at the time.  And weren’t you referring to the Chargers (on one of your 4 regional covers) as “dangerous” after they upset a team with  4 more regular season wins then them?  You remember, that game was also without LaDainian Tomlinson.  Let’s not act like LT had anything to do with what happened against the Jets because he didn’t.  If the Chargers don’t roll over, my screen saver is the photo of him in the hat and towel like that bald girl from the Thompson Twins.  It was appropriate that you included the week’s covers of the NY papers since you essentially bit off of them anyway.  You have every right to doubt the Chargers for not “bolting up.”  But don’t revise your magazine’s position on the matter to justify it.  I know you guys have gone easy on a team that has underachieved more than once.  It hurts to predict a team will win big and have them fall short.  Imagine you were a fan of that team.  At least you had the decency to have someone with the last name “Hack” write the article.

Ross Warner
www.justiceiscoming.com
South Setauket, NY 11720

Look, someone had to take a stand.  The team certainly isn’t doing it right now.  Personally, I think they will win tomorrow night.  But that’s just allowing myself to have Halloween ruined.  I know no one thought St. Louis could beat the Saints a week after they scored 62 points.  Baltimore almost got upset for a second straight week.  But the one constant seems to be us playing “down to the competition.”  Oh wait, I’m starting to sound like that SI article.  Seeing Pittsburgh dismantle the Pats reminds me of how much we are lacking right now.  AJ couldn’t even muster up another “soft and embarrassing” criticism?  Anyway, talk to you tomorrow.

BTFU,

RLW