Take a Chill Pill by Ben Johnston (Director of Public Relations)
What’s with you people?
Yes, Monday night’s loss was bad. Horrible. Embarrassing.
Ok…enough already. No mas. I get it.
Now get over it. It was a loss. One loss.
Listening to some of you out there, you’d think Monday night was “win or go home” and the Chargers are now packing their bags. “The Chargers are finished. Done,” said one scribe. Another wrote, “Bye, bye Chargers. Put a fork in them.” Sometimes I think Twitter was invented to give people a chance to puff out their chests and talk big, saying things they never would say to someone’s face. And talk radio … don’t get me started. The old adage your mom used to preach – “If you don’t have anything good say, don’t say anything” – seems to have evolved to “if you don’t have anything good to say, call sports talk radio.” Some of those folks are probably the same ones who called for former Head Coach Bobby Ross’ job when his first Chargers team started the 1992 season 0-4. I still remember the self-proclaimed experts saying Bobby was “in over his head”. The Chargers went on to win 11 of the next 12 games that year, along with a 17-0 victory in the first round of the playoffs.
A few of the more recent Chargers teams have been declared dead by quacks, only to awaken in good health. The 3-3 Chargers of 2004 won nine of their final 10 games. The ’06 Chargers won their final 10. The ’07 Chargers started 1-3 before winning 10 of their last 12. The ’08 Chargers won their final four in a row and the ’09 team won its last 11 games. Time to take a chill pill. No one knows what will happen this season, yet alone the next game. That’s the beauty of the National Football League. I don’t know, you don’t know, no one knows what’s going to happen. If you want these players and coaches to succeed, then support them. Don’t tear them down. What you want and what we all want, including your team, is to know people believe in them. Look at it this way. We want our loved ones to succeed, and we’ll do whatever it takes to help them. But when they make mistakes, like we all do, we would never criticize or belittle them publicly.
Your team is 3-3, tied at the top of the division, and has 10 games to play. If the Chargers are your team, get behind them and stay behind them. We’re all at our best when we know others believe in us.
PR 101. First page of the handbook. Steps to handling your fans. 1) Tell them to shut the fuck up. 2) Tell them they’re all fake internet tough guys. 3) Cite how you always suck every year but then turn it around in the nick of the time to jussttt miss the playoffs or lose your playoff game. 4) Be as condescending as possible. Absolutely nailed every point along the way. Probably time for a raise if you ask me.
And yes somewhere in this post he does kind of have a point. That you should try supporting your team instead of tearing them down all the time. Only problem is that doesn’t work with the Chargers. If this was from a perennial winning franchise like the Giants or Patriots or Steelers it would hold a little more weight. But the Chargers have literally won nothing, done nothing, and follow the same exact script every single season. Take half the season off, don’t try your hardest, and have terrible coaching. Yeah I’d say Chargers fans are entitled to a gripe.
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