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I'll officially jump on, even though I have been pulling for them all season.

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12/20/2006 2:42:05 PM

9 PRO BOWLERS...COUNT ME IN

12/20/2006 4:48:00 PM

Most awesome water/gatorate dumping photo I have ever seen.

1/1/2007 2:33:29 AM

thats badass as hell

1/1/2007 3:19:06 AM

bears chargers sb

then i wont care who wins

1/1/2007 8:57:38 PM

everybody to the bears bandwagon!

1/14/2007 8:25:10 PM

No, fuck that.

I don't like any of the teams left, but if I had to pick one I guess the Colts are them.

1/14/2007 8:51:38 PM

in case anyone is still planning on being a chargers fan next season...

marty will still be the coach

http://www.chargers.com/news/headlines/marty-schottenheimer.htm

1/18/2007 4:27:10 AM

meh, I'm jumping on the Saints bandwagon for the rest of the postseason.

1/18/2007 8:03:40 AM

^man fuck the saints.

as long as Rivers is their QB I'll be a fan.

1/18/2007 1:25:15 PM

^likewise

1/18/2007 1:34:48 PM

Anybody but the Patriots.

1/18/2007 2:01:30 PM

Anybody but the Saints and Patriots

1/18/2007 2:16:16 PM

definitely Bears V Colts ftw.

1/18/2007 2:22:04 PM

Quote :

"Anybody but the Patriots."

agree... despite all the feel good hoopla around NE i've never really like them as a team... even with there improbable first SB win... shit even before that.... I just don't like them much.... they are just one of those teams that i've never liked for what ever reason.... buffalo is another one tho they do get some respect at least for going to a shitton of SB's even though they lost all of them...

1/19/2007 9:39:20 AM

that was Oakland's year - but everyone knows they got the nerds at MIT to build a wheather machine and make it tundra out there

1/19/2007 10:52:58 AM

I'm on the Rivers bandwagon... but yeah, anyone but NE

1/19/2007 11:05:16 AM

Same here. Dad asked what I wanted for my birthday and one of the things I said was a "P Riv" Rookie Card.
His response: "what are you 12?"

1/19/2007 11:52:31 AM

anyone but the saints, patriots, colts, or bears. seriously the worst 4 teams i can remember it comin down to in a while, as far as my own personal interest goes.

1/19/2007 12:57:18 PM

i'm pulling for drew and the saints

(hate peyton as well as the patriots, pretty indifferent about the bears)

go bolts

1/19/2007 1:35:24 PM

Cam Cameron gone, takes the coaching job at Miami.

1/19/2007 6:01:02 PM

Welp, both coordinators gone.

And Marty is a lame duck coach.

They should have fired him, or at least given him an extension so potential coordinators wouldn't be scared off.

2/8/2007 10:07:51 PM

Coordinators might use that as incentive to come in knowing they could be the head coach next year.

2/8/2007 10:13:04 PM

Amato for Def Coordinator

2/8/2007 10:13:38 PM

Damn, they lost everyone.

tights end coach Rob Chudzinski left to become the OC for the Browns.

linebackers coach Greg Manusky left to become the DC for the 49ers.

2/9/2007 12:44:27 PM

Awesome and hilarious article.

http://www.pe.com/sports/football/s...14.2513e0c.html

Quote :

"Everything Chargers do turns to gold 12:08 PM PST on Wednesday, February 14, 2007 GREGG PATTON Six years ago, the bumbling San Diego Chargers gave up the top pick in the NFL draft -- everyone's consensus choice was Michael Vick -- and dropped to fifth, where they took a chance on LaDainian Tomlinson, one of those dime-a-dozen running backs who get overrated every year. The dunderheads did get an undersized, junk-ball throwing quarterback, Drew Brees, in the second round. Three years ago, the morons went ahead and drafted Eli Manning with the No. 1 pick, even though Manning vowed he would never play in San Diego, presumably because the organization was so pathetic. Forced to trade him, the Chargers used their multiple picks that year and the next to acquire sidearm thrower Philip Rivers, place-kicker Nate Kaeding, veteran tackle Roman Oben and linebacker Shawne Merriman. Last winter, after Brees had developed into the perfect quarterback to lead the Chargers' surprisingly diverse offense, the boneheads allowed him to walk away as a free agent, gambling that untested third-year pro Rivers would be up to the task. Now the goofy Chargers have bungled the firing of Coach Marty Schottenheimer. Whether you are a fan of Schottenheimer for leading the team to an NFL-best 14-2 record, or think his postseason failures and the one-and-done loss to New England last month warranted a boot in the pants, you have to admit team president Dean Spanos and general manager A. J. Smith really blew it this time. A month after telling him he could stay, then watching the team's stable of talented assistants depart, and the best outside coaching candidates take jobs elsewhere, the dopey Chargers suddenly find themselves in mid-February searching in the weeds for a new head coach. I suspect this is the final piece of idiocy the franchise needs to get itself over the top. The last pratfall that will lead them to the promised land. Yes, the final misstep in a long line of highly criticized moves that will make the crazy Chargers a Super Bowl team. Me, I'm done calling them names. If the Chargers front office is out to lunch, well, maybe we ought to find out what they're eating and drinking, and order it up. Every time I think they've driven the bus off the bridge, out come the James Bond wings and away they go. The Chargers' plotters and schemers are either the craftiest crew of brilliant thinkers in the NFL, or the luckiest sons of guns to ever throw a dart at a draft chart. Either way, I'm on board. If I don't have anything nice to say about the geniuses in San Diego, I won't say anything at all. Mom would be so proud. If they bring in the great underachiever, Norv Turner, or backslider Dennis Green, to coach, I'll button my lip and marvel at the 15-1 season. If they go with a 27-year-old junior college assistant coach, I'll assume he's the next Tony Dungy. Heck, if they hire Denzel Washington because they liked the job he did with the Titans, it's OK by me. It's pretty obvious by now, the Chargers front office can do no wrong. Maybe the players and coaches can have their airhead moments at the worst time, say, in a postseason game against the Patriots. But the guys upstairs? They've been perfect for six years. Drink a toast to that, 1972 Miami Dolphins. Spanos cited the ongoing "dysfunctional" relationship between Smith and Schottenheimer as the reason he had to let the coach go, as if it were a bad thing. In the same way that dysfunction has fueled every money-making TV reality show, it seemed to work with the Chargers, too. But we can only assume the brass knows best. Its unblemished recent track record should also be great news for Chargers fans who live in fear that the team is moving just as soon as the last bobbled stadium deal falls through or gets voted down. It may look like the Chargers aren't really trying, or may be sabotaging efforts to keep their game in town, but looks, as we've learned, can be deceiving. I don't think they're going to Los Angeles, Anaheim or Las Vegas. I think they're going straight to the Super Bowl. It doesn't matter that there's barely anyone left on the staff that guided them to the best record in history, or that a new coach may tinker poorly with one of the NFL's most talented rosters. The important thing is the front office still has nearly a year to toss in a few more staggeringly deft gambits disguised as colossal gaffes. I can't wait to keep my mouth shut."

2/15/2007 11:02:34 PM

I'm still on the wagon!

5/6/2007 12:58:13 AM

i'm on the priv wagon, for sure.

couldn't care less about how an nfl team does, however. i just want rivers to break every record possible, then come back and be our qb coach and reproduce himself over and over.

5/6/2007 1:00:56 AM

Do yall really only cheer for the charges because of P Riv????? come on now...

5/6/2007 11:31:10 PM

^are you serious?

5/6/2007 11:40:56 PM

^^ are you serious?

5/7/2007 7:47:16 AM

^^^are you serious?

5/7/2007 8:13:56 AM

^^^^ are you serious??

5/7/2007 9:29:29 AM

^^^^^ are you serious?

5/7/2007 10:10:22 AM

I think Craig Davis was a great pick for the Chargers. He's a tough kid who loves to go over the middle and never drops the ball. He was overshadowed by Dwayne Bowe at LSU, but Rivers does very well with quick, sure-handed recievers who can get open underneath. I'm betting that by the end of the year, he'll be starting opposite VJ, with Parker in the slot.

He's also a high-character guy, which seems to be an issue for a lot of recievers.

Weddle, the safety they drafted, should be an immediate upgrade over the horrible safeties they had the last few years. McCree is serviceable at FS, but they needed a playmaker at SS and hopefully they found one in Weddle. With the kind of pass-rush they generate, the safeties should be making a killing back there instead of dropping easy interceptions and fumbling away the ones they do catch...

[Edited on May 7, 2007 at 10:55 AM. Reason : 2]

5/7/2007 10:53:33 AM

first mini-camp was this past weekend

PR and turner getting along well:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20070507-9999-1s7chargers.html

some pictures:
http://www.chargers.com/fan_zone/photo-gallery/slideshow_20070504.htm

go bolts

5/7/2007 12:44:10 PM

those new unis kinda blow ass

5/7/2007 1:24:22 PM

Quote :

"Are the Chargers good enough to beat the Colts and Patriots? The Chargers will be a sexy pick for the Super Bowl because they have 11 Pro Bowl players returning and Philip Rivers has had an extra year to develop at quarterback. However, while the roster underwent virtually no big changes following a 14-win season, the coaching staff has experienced a great deal of turmoil. The Chargers fired head coach Marty Schottenheimer, and had to replace their top two coordinators, Wade Phillips and Cam Cameron. Norv Turner takes over as head coach, so there is harmony between the head coach and the general manger. The Chargers are one of the elite teams in the league. Now, they have to take the next step by beating the Colts and Patriots in the playoffs. "

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/columns/story?columnist=clayton_john&id=2860110

Alot of text about nothing.

5/7/2007 3:38:08 PM

Yes I am serious. I think it is ridic for all of you to all of a sudden like a team that you never cheered for just because our best quarterback went there and that is it..... that is my thought as long with a lot of people in sports talk radio...

5/8/2007 1:29:24 AM

but you see, to me, alma mater >>>> pro teams.

so, by definition i have more loyalty, if you will, to priv than to any pro team. thus, i cheer for priv in the pros.

5/8/2007 2:18:37 AM

Now that my friend was a logical, well thought out, smart answer. Thank you.

5/8/2007 3:01:42 AM

well by that logic

im a huge texans, chargers, packers, bills, cardinals, rams, seahawks etc etc etc etc fan

5/8/2007 9:01:28 AM

Rivers is by far the most important (in terms of having success as a team) football player to come through NC State in quite a while, possibly ever.

5/8/2007 9:03:59 AM

Torry Holt?

5 pro bowls and a ring dont lie

[Edited on May 8, 2007 at 9:05 AM. Reason : e]

5/8/2007 9:04:35 AM

Didn't lead us to our best season ever

I'm talking about team success while at NC State.

Plus Rivers was here while I was here. I was there on the 3rd row, 40 yard line, when Rivers led us to victory over #3 ranked (or whatever tehy were) FSU.

[Edited on May 8, 2007 at 9:07 AM. Reason : ]

5/8/2007 9:04:58 AM

oh

you were talking about while in college..

5/8/2007 9:06:14 AM

Quote :

"Every time I think they've driven the bus off the bridge, out come the James Bond wings and away they go."

BUWAHAAH i chuckled


and i agree about rivers. the loyalty is a lot stronger for me with our college guys. hell I'll turn on a game if I hear Chad Orvella is pitching ;x

[Edited on May 8, 2007 at 9:13 AM. Reason : .]

5/8/2007 9:10:34 AM