A Girls Guide to Sports: The San Diego Chargers have continued winning even though my computer is broken

Spoke to my Dad yesterday, it went like this:

"So your team won."
"They did?"
"Yep, they sure did."
"What does that mean?"
"They are in the playoffs. It means they get to play more games to figure out if they go to the Superbowl."
"So they could go to the Superbowl?"
"Yep, they could, just like I could win the lottery."

From Boston.com:

[The Chargers] broke a 13-year playoff drought with a 17-6 win over the Tennessee Titans yesterday, justifying the team's coaching change after last season, and more strongly validating the careers of players such as LaDainian Tomlinson. Tomlinson and Norv Turner, the coach who replaced Marty Schottenheimer, briefly celebrated the success but quickly turned their attention to next week's visit to Indianapolis.

Lines for the sports bar:

We're on our way to the Superbowl, I just know it!
They got a tough game against Indy next week, hopefully they can keep up the playoff momentum.
Looks like our offense is starting to pay off.
Go Chargers!!!!

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Linebacker for the Chargers: Matt Willhelm

He's cute and seems like a pretty nice guy, plus he plays football (and commenters LOVE him)

He's like every guy you had a crush on in high school, only he has bazillions of dollars and a teeny tiny dog.

And check out that backyard pool!

We'll forgive him for including "My Wedding Song" on his mix CD, but obviously forgetting exactly what it was. "You know, that song, we danced to, it was slow, whatever I totally remember it." *Cue bad Adam Sandler movie reference: quickly pulls out remote control to rewind time only to discover in the end that he should have just lived his life instead of trying to take the easy way out.*

So I was Looking for Christmas Cheer and Decided to try the Chargers Holiday Cheer Song

You can find it here: http://www.chargers.com/holiday-cheer/

But I don't understand what they are saying, wait, um, okay, wait, I think they said :

Watch him run his moves are frightening...

Who? Santa? He is scary, just ask that kid in the mall the other day, he thought Santa was going to eat him or something because he started screaming "I hate you! I HATE YOU!" Poor Santa, cut the dude some slack, we all know how busy the Holiday is for the guy.

Reason # 2 we need a sports reporter: The Chargers won today and that means something but I can't figure out what

So I called my Dad to get the scoop on the Chargers game today and got this instead:

"That game was so unimportant it didn't even register for me and I spent the day shopping with your Mom instead."

Oooo, burn.

I explained how he wasn't going to make any friends in San Diego with that kind of attitude and he replied that is "probably true, but okay."

Apparently The Chargers beat The Titans in a last minute rally during overtime in their game today. From what I can tell this may or may not be a big deal depending on who you ask, reporter type people or my Dad.

Some guy who Likes the Ravens Came to San Diego and had a Good Time

In San Diego no less.

Check out the "why I love The East Village Tavern Sports Bar in Downtown San Diego" and "how good of a time I had partying it up before a football game" article.

And if you get a chance to check out The East Village Tavern say hi to Tina.

The locals were very friendly, especially Tina who had this obsession with wearing my jacket and pimp hat. I gladly let her and took lots of pictures for her and Gabrielle, who I thought was her pimp but turned out to be her husband! Anticipating a looong weekend, I headed back to the hotel. Friday—fun and done.

Wasted one perfectly good your mom joke and for what?

And here I spent all that time thinking of a really witty, biting, original joke about the coach confusing the hippo with his mother. A wasted your mom/ mother in law joke! Why, why Steve Crosby (Chargers special teams coach)?!



It turns out that the old "there's a Hippo in my pool because of the raging wild fires taking over San Diego, isn't that HILARIOUS" story is a FAKE! From the North County Times:


Crosby, a world-class prankster, couldn't resist his comedic moment. And before long, his tale was on the road to becoming an urban legend."I was just trying to loosen everyone up,'' Crosby said Friday. "It was during the fires, and everyone was worried about their houses and everything.''Crosby and his wife, Lisa, live near the Wild Animal Park. Close enough, one can surmise, for their backyard to offer an oasis if any wildlife escaped.So with his special-teams players listening, Crosby told of the hippo that slipped out of the Wild Animal Park through a charred wall, smashed through Crosby's backyard and took residence in his pool.



But with a little digging (or say, "reporting" as those OLD school people do) one could find out that: "We don't have hippopotamus at the Wild Animal Park,'' park spokesperson Yadira Galindo said. "That is the key."


HA, fact checking, calling for a comment, checking on the story before running with it, OLD SCHOOL.

Bernie Wilson is Talking Shiz About the Chargers

Bernie. Bernie, Bernie, Bernie (Wilson). I know we live in a nice California beach town, therefore we should be those "chill, perma stoned" surfers, but Bernie, Bernie, Bernie, San Diego Chargers Fans (even those that are only fans when they think about it, not fans ALL the time) aren't really ones to take these words lightly.

Which best describes the San Diego Chargers, the most disappointing team in the AFC?

About the only thing the Chargers have going for them heading down the stretch is that they play in the anemic AFC West, where they now share the lead with the Denver Broncos at an unsightly 5-5.

Oversold or underachievers? Both?

Man, Bernie Wilson, The Chargers must have lost you some mucho money or something. Maybe the original copy read "What best decribes the San Diego Chargers, the team that lost me 5000 on the last game? I am so disapointed in them."

Chargers fans are never happy

Chargers lose, fans aren't happy.
Chargers win, fans are thinking about how they were AHEAD 23-0 and managed to almost LOSE the game.
Chargers drop down to .500, fans wonder what the hell that even means (or maybe that's really just me).
According to Sign on San Diego Chargers fans are just never happy.

Channel 4's Steve Quis, who hosts a post-game Chargers radio show on Rock 105.3, fielded 20 phone calls after the team's 23-21 win. Every phone call but one was hostile and negative.
“We had 19 negative calls after a win over the defending champs,” Quis said. “It's amazing that that would happen.”

Just When I Thought I was Getting the Hang of This Football Thing

The Union Tribune goes with this Headline: Chargers fall back to .500 with loss to Jags

What the hell does that mean?

Apparently the chargers lost 24-17 on Sunday and that somehow made them fall back to a .500 (their batting average? yeah, yeah, it's FOOTBALL).

Jacksonville (7-3) scored on its first three possessions, possibly taking advantage of what would have been an 10 a.m. start on the West Coast, and the Chargers (5-5) self-destructed on nearly every drive.

I like how we assume the Chargers couldn't handle playing as early as 10am! My goodness, why you gotta rush us Jacksonville? Don't you get we're on San Diego beach time here?

I actually did watch (most) of The Chargers game yesterday

Because that's what good daughters do with their Dads.

When I got there they were ahead (twenty-something to nothing, NOTHING) and apparently that was no big deal because Bob Costas asked some man during half time "If they keep this up and get this win will it make a difference to the outcome of their season?" And the little man said "No." Then they laughed.

Bob Costas, you are on my list.

Anyway (another reason I'm not a sports writer) something happened and some guy dropped the ball in the "End Zone" and then some other guy picked it up and he happened to be on the other team and then the other team scored. And then they went for a two point conversion and that didn't work out. The poor Chargers were watching their lead slip away.

And then luck stepped in and beat The Chargers with the "oh my God you guys get it together" stick:

The San Diego Chargers built a 23-point first-half lead and just held on to beat the Indianapolis Colts 23-21 when Adam Vinatieri missed a 29-yard field goal with 91 seconds to play.
It was only the second time in his career that Vinatieri has missed a field goal under 30 yards in the fourth quarter.

All in all a pretty good game, if you like that sort of thing. The announcers were all about Peyton Manning, whoever that is.

We need to get us a Sports Writer

Suddenly dawns on me that I skip over all that "sports stuff" in my diehard nitty gritty re-reporting of news. And here I am at home visiting my parents where I spend Sunday and Monday night watching football when I think "hey, we do have sports that go on in San Diego, don't we?"

I must admitt I go to games for mostly beer and hot dogs, but I'm sure there are people out there curious about the San Diego Sportsy scene. Hence my attempt. My I present to you "the reason why the Chragers had such a sucky game the other day" from MSNBC.

The Chargers were without three key defensive starters by the time Peterson rounded right end for his 64-yard touchdown with 12 minutes, 55 seconds left in the third quarter.

"Adrian is outstanding, but we thought we could handle him, and we did in the first half," said Chargers defensive coordinator Ted Cottrell, who held the same position with the Vikings in 2004-05. "What happened in the second half is Castillo got hurt. That really hurt us."

I find this headline... what's the word... eerie? bemusing? head shakingly hrmmm?

NFL WAITS, WHILE SAN DIEGO BURNS


San Diego throws up the finger and tells the NFL to wait all they want but they are taking their time, considering it's a DISASTER and all, so quit staring and help already or go back to your little NFL cave and BROOOOD.