The Crap Bowl

Congratulations to 1-10 Washington State, which just extended their nightmare of a season by kicking a game tying field goal against 0-11 Washington. It's going to overtime.

I have an illness. I am watching a football game between two teams with a combined record of 1-21.

At least they're showing this commercial:



(What? Sir Mix-a-Lot as your ringtone is a sign of immaturity? I must be in arrested development)

(Update: Game over. Washington State kicks a field goal to win 16-13...and their fans rush the field like they've just won the Rose Bowl. Which is why I love college football...your team can suck, but win your rivalry game and it's all good.)

Eli Manning still sucks

I'm a Charger fan. I will always hate Eli Manning.

But today you have to give him credit. This is one of the greatest plays in Super Bowl history:

We have had no chance

Oh well. It was a great season. But according to almost everyone who claims to know anything about football, my Chargers have no chance to beat the Patriots today...especially with Tomlinson, Gates and Rivers all banged up. Game time temperatures are expected to be in the 20's...and it will get colder for the boys from sunny SoCal as the sun goes down.

Yup, absolutely no chance. Why did the Chargers even get on the airplane to play this game? Has a team ever overcome such unbeatable odds?

Well...yeah:



Halftime update: Isn't this game over yet? LaDainian Tomlinson is OUT and Philip Rivers is throwing off of half a leg. Surely the Patriots are winning by three touchdowns already...

Nope.

Post-game: Three chances inside the Patriot 10-yard line...three field goals. Is there any respectable New England fan who doesn't know in their heart that if we had the greatest goal-line runner in NFL history available, things might have been different?

Congrats to the Pats...off to play some poker...

Last digs at Peyton Manning

As I have mentioned previously, the Chargers own Peyton Manning. But Eli's older brother is a pretty good sport with a sense of humor...remember this from Saturday Night Live?:





But Peyton forgot he was miked for yesterday's game. The last play of Peyton Manning's season:




One more thing. Nobody jumps harder on bandwagons like San Diegans. An hour after the upset over Indianapolis, this was a taste of the scene on Highland Avenue in National City:




If the Chargers upset the Patriots on Sunday, this town will go absolutely nuts.

The Legacy of Kim Il Zong

No...not this guy:





We are talking about this ex-Seattle Seahawk great:

Sorry CBS...Sorry NFL...Sorry Phil Luckett

You got screwed. You did NOT get your precious Indianapolis/New England matchup in the AFC Championship game like you all wished.

Chargers 28 Indianapolis 24. The Chargers' winning drive was executed without quarterback Philip Rivers and without LaDainian Tomlinson.

Charger hero Darren Sproles on his touchdown to end the 3rd quarter

Peyton Manning is the Chargers' bitch. Again.

Special apologies to NFL official Phil Luckett. I'm sorry I held you in the same esteem as a goat-humping Jihadi in my last post. You are off the hook.

To Charger coach Norv Turner...I am sorry for all of my criticisms of you this season. The link to Fire Norv Turner will now be ceremoniously removed.

And to Colts coach Tony Dungy...God bless you whatever you decide to do. You are the epitome of class.

Unlike the parents of this little twerp who neglected to take his video camera away from him:

Now is the time in our blog when we dance...to the disco classic "San Diego Superchargers"!:

BULLSHIT! (updated)

I was going to completely avoid blogging the San Diego/Indianapolis playoff game today, but I have just seen the worst officiating call in NFL playoff history.

Perhaps there will be video on this later, but Antonio Cromartie's interception return for a touchdown was just nullified by a BULLSHIT holding call.

Let me repeat that. It was BULLSHIT. Watch the replay.

Look at the wet spot on incontinent dickhead Phil Luckett's ass...

If the Chargers lose this game, this will be on NFL official Phil Luckett. He is the ex-referee who left the NFL in shame because he could not get a coin flip right during the 1998 Thanksgiving Day game between the Detroit Lions and the Pittsburgh Steelers, and followed that up by several more crappy officiating decisions.

Worse was CBS hack "analyst" Dan Dierdorf's attempted defense of Luckett. Pathetic. We all know that CBS would rather have a Patriots/Colts AFC championship...just don't be so obvious.

Update: Concurrence from Sports on My Mind:

Phil Luckett is a referee in the NFL is a sign of impropriety in the league. Yes, I said the unsaid, the unwritten, at least since Luckett’s past performances. That Luckett is able to participate in and impact the outcome of a playoff game makes stellar and impeccable crew chief Jerry Markbreit appear as though he is part of a fix of monumental proportions.

Antonio Cromartie intercepted an errant Peyton Manning pass and ran it back 89 yards for a touchdown.

But Luckett dropped a flag long after Cromartie passed the 40 yard line. The call was a hold on Chargers rookie, Eric Weddle. Dan Dierdorf, former NFL lineman, official NFL shill, and secondarily CBS color commentator, said the hold was obvious and questioned why San Diego head coach Norv Turner was arguing the call.

At halftime Boomer Esiason averred that there was no hold. Esiason said flatly, “It was a bad call.” He also said the man making the call was Phil Luckett.

When the telecast resumed from Indianapolis, a replay of the hold was immediately shown; an odd move for sure, especially for an “obvious hold.” Dierdorf then said Weddle did not allow Joseph Addai “the outside position he established” and therefore was holding Addai. Dierdorf, at this point in his NFL being, knows NFL rules about as well as I do. Yet suddenly he is spouting the nature of a holding penalty like he’s Markbreit. It was obvious the NFL flew a kite to Dierdorf so that they could defend their boy Luckett and his sheisty call.

Now, if you watch the play, the hold was actually on Addai, as he grabbed Weddle by the shoulder pads, yanked him to the left, then right and threw him to the ground. Normally, that is defensive holding.

Not on Luckett’s watch.

Whew...Bolts shut down Titans (updated: bet paid)

Arriving at my seats before the game, I was aghast that the two seats to my left were occupied by Titan fans Mr. and Mrs. Cletis Hatfield who had taken out a mobile home equity line of credit for their dream vacation to San Diego. I'm glad they got rained on...

And Vince Young had a rough day too:

Chargers beat the Titans 17-6. Now the boys at Six Meat Buffet owe me a tribute on their site to the Chargers for the next week. I'm waiting...(not to worry...they're not the type to renege).

And after years of disappointment, I was in the house for the Chargers first playoff win since this:

Update: Preston and Brian come through...now go read the rest of their brilliant blog...

Ooops!

Texas assistant coach Chris Jessie is a coach who totally gets into the game. Literally:



An aside...he's Head Coach Mack Brown's stepson. So his job is safe. Texas pounded Arizona State 52-34 anyway in last night's Holiday Bowl.

Well...it's about freakin' time!

Down in South Florida, Linda can finally celebrate...

A good reason to brawl (updated)

Well...as good as any, I guess:

SAN DIEGO – An argument over the virtues of American versus Australian football led to a fight that left one man seriously injured and two Australian sailors in jail.

The disagreement between the three men, which arose at 5 a.m. Thursday at a party in a home on C Street near 22nd Street in Golden Hill, grew heated and escalated to a shoving match.

Then the American football fan threatened to kill the Australians. The sailors, reportedly fearing the man would get a weapon, then hit and kicked him, breaking his eye socket, said San Diego police Sgt. Kerry Tom.

The sailors were booked on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon, the weapon being their feet.

Before we mock the Aussie's about their game, take a look:





And they do have this on us:

1. No pads or helmets. Those guys are tough.

2. No Tony Kornholer or Keith Olberdouche.

I'll still take our game though. Can't imagine the Aussie's pulling off anything more exciting than this:




(Update: More Keith Olberdouchery...)

Follow the bouncing ball

What a weird ending to the Cleveland/Baltimore game yesterday:



Actually, that didn't end the game. It sent it into overtime. The Ravens had already left the field...and of course they had no chance once they had to come back out to play overtime...

When the game you are watching is boring...

...like this Dolphins/Giants game from London Fox is subjecting me to this morning, get your entertainment from the commercials:




And this Bud Light commercial...

Cal/Stanford Redux? (updated)

The best game of the college football weekend? Ohio State/Penn State? Oregon/U$C? Texas/Nebraska?

Nope. How about Trinity vs. Millsaps?:



Update: If the ESPN video is down, you can catch it here:



The same play from the end zone:

Travis Henry not a Trojan Man (corrected)

How can an NFL player who just signed a $25 Million contract be almost broke?

Here's how:

Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry has a lot of money. Enough that he has a $100,000 car. Enough that he's spent $146,000 on jewelry. But not enough to take care of his kids.

Of course, he has nine of them, by nine different women.

In addition to not having control over his...uh...Little Henry, seems Travis can't control his spending habits. Which almost landed him in the hoosegow:

DeKalb Superior Court Judge Clarence Seeliger this week ordered Henry to provide $3,000 a month for the Lithonia boy he fathered out of wedlock three years ago with Jameshia Beacham, now 29.

Henry isn't the most thrifty guy, according to court records, so the judge wants to ensure payment by establishing an unusual $250,000 trust that Henry must fund by next spring.

Seeliger wrote that the football player displayed "bad judgment in his spending habits," dropping $100,000 for a car and $146,000 for jewelry.

Meanwhile, Henry fell behind on support payments for his child with Beacham that were mandated by a previous order. Threatened with jail, he borrowed $9,800 from his former team, the Tennessee Titans, to pay the bill, according to court records.

Naturally, Henry is looking for a way out:

His lawyer, Shiel Edlin, said that to his knowledge the trust would be without precedent in Georgia. A quarter-million dollars is a lot of money, even for Henry, Edlin said. "He has some concerns and he's weighing his options."

Records show that Henry's children are scattered across both the American and National Football Conferences — including Florida, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. Wellon said Henry talked about gathering them together to watch him at training camp. Indeed, part of the custody arrangement Henry reached with Beacham requires two weekend visits when he is playing pro ball.

Edlin said Henry wants to be a good parent. "I know these are a lot of kids, and there might be some questions about it," he said, "but he's a really committed father."

Yup, this Father of the Year candidate is so "committed"...he mentions none of his children in the "bio" section of his own website.

Of course if he needs to raise money to pay for all of those Travis Jr.'s, perhaps he could go for this endorsement:

Don't be this guy

Off to my fantasy football draft. Yes, I'm a geek like that.

Well....that was FUN (Updated)

A little excitement here at our little POC blog. A thanks to Hot Air, Newsbusters and The National Review Online who all picked up my post about Bob Filner. Needless to say, that level of activity sent our site-meter spinning.

Oh yeah...you'll notice I said "our". I'd like to welcome into the fold, Yiddish Steel...a fellow Bruin and San Diegan (Encinitas). We have spent the past couple of years snarking up the comment boards at Six Meat Buffet...and he might be a bigger Prick than I am. His first post is here.

Of course most importantly...it's almost football season! And the analysis shows are already on ESPN:



Update: Cranky and Preston at Six Meat Buffet pimp our little blog. Thanks guys!

It is SO on!

Football season approacheth!