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Random Thoughts – January 9th


Forget About Tomlinson. Fear San Diego's Lame Theme Song

What makes the Chargers "Super?" Having briefly been a member of the San Diego Chargers messageboard before being banned for life (along with several other notable Barstool posters), I consider myself an expert on everything Boltish and think that I can explain why Chargers fans consider their team "super."

They don't know what "super" means.

I really don't have any other answer. Reading the rambling, incoherent, farcical posts on the San Diego messageboard, I could have sworn that I was on the website of a franchise that had actually ever won something. Oh, there was that glorious 1963 AFL Championship over the Boston Patriots that one Charger diehard offered up as proof of San Diego's proud championship heritage. But I'm thinking that when your team is clinging to the distant 40-year old memory of a championship in a league that no longer exists as the pinnacle of its history, that maybe it's not the smartest idea to start talking smack with fans from a team that's won three Super Bowls in the last five years.

There's nothing better than fans from some second-rate city with no sports pedigree patting themselves on the back days before the game is actually played. Congrats, Bolties. You went 14-2 during the regular season. You get to watch LaDainian Tomlinson and Shawne Merriman and Jamal Williams. Your team has nine Pro Bowlers. Yippee! Your team is going to win the Super Bowl because you have the most Pro Bowlers. Because it's nine on nine, right? Or are just Pro Bowlers allowed to suit up Sunday? Is Richard Seymour going one on nine?

Take it from some fans who actually know what it feels like to watch a team win a championship, San Diego. The NFL doesn't hand out victories five days before the game to whichever team has the most Pro Bowlers. If they did, Peyton Manning might have actually made a Super Bowl by now.

— chisholm, 1:07 am | permalink | 24 comments