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12/22/2006 2:40:57 PM

does anyone collect philip's football cards? i stopped collecting in the 90's, but I've been picking up a few cards of former NC state players lately.

12/22/2006 4:49:07 PM

^ yes...


ive got a few good ones...ive collected for years but now im getting into collecting everything from my teams, specifically ncstate and panthers

12/24/2006 10:18:16 PM

oh...i wanted to tell everyone that i just received a PHILIP RIVERS, NCSTATE bobble head doll...limited edition..its so cool!! i will take a pic and post it, all you people will be jealous.

now he can sit next to hodge and J-pep on my dresser

12/24/2006 10:58:31 PM

that aint shit, on our last day of class, the professor let us bring in stuff for him to autograph, got a jersey and football.

12/24/2006 11:00:11 PM

^ i went to the HS his dad coached at and played basketball with him(wakefield)

12/25/2006 12:17:41 PM

might have been posted...but PR just got play number 1 on sportcenter

12/25/2006 2:55:47 PM

^^^^ I had the Chuck Amato bobblehead like it, but his head fell off 2 years ago. Can't say I plan on glueing it back on anytime soon.

[Edited on December 25, 2006 at 4:31 PM. Reason : ]

12/25/2006 4:31:07 PM

http://www.dailymotion.com/DelMarBoltFan/video/1441824

great video of the comeback on Sunday...especially the end when they show him slow motion.

12/27/2006 6:25:48 PM

ha phil sez 'fuck the bitch commentators, i knew what i was doin'



[Edited on December 27, 2006 at 6:34 PM. Reason : vdsa]

12/27/2006 6:33:34 PM

^^ Thank You!! I forgot to set my DVR to record extra minutes and the last 2 mins were cut off!

12/27/2006 8:16:04 PM

that was just great


thanks for the video. will watch again.

12/28/2006 10:55:23 AM

Quote :

"Everyone knows someone who's married with three daughters. When you ask them what it's like to live in a house with all women, they all make that same face -- the one where they tilt their head to the left, roll their eyes and exhale, as if to say, "You have no idea, I'm honestly hoping just to make it out of this alive." In a related story, that's how every Chargers fan looked after Phil Rivers' salvaged that epic stink bomb in Seattle last weekend with the Vince Jackson TD pass. Can you win a Super Bowl with Rivers at this stage of his career? It's eminently debatable. Can you win a Super Bowl with Marty Schottenheimer? Even more debatable. Well, what about Phil AND Marty? (Tilt the head to the left, roll the eyes, exhale ...) "

12/29/2006 2:57:44 PM

dude, fuck you

12/29/2006 4:12:59 PM

every qb has had a bad game or two this season...philip's just had 2 back to back, whenever everyone's been waitin for him to play like a first year starter.

12/29/2006 4:43:22 PM

Note there isn't a link to whatever shitty blog that came out of.

Probably from someone around Baltimore.

12/29/2006 5:06:20 PM

Try Bill Simmons

12/29/2006 5:54:13 PM

Try pulling the cock out of your mouth

12/29/2006 9:34:57 PM

he's just calling it like someone who is impartial should.

SD has a 27.5% chance of winning the Super Bowl according to gamblers.

IMO, its not higher than 20%... id say about 17% or so

12/29/2006 9:38:46 PM

hahahah

i dunno, they haven't lost at home, hopefully they'll have homefield throughout. their loss to balt was when full-fledged martyball was their MO

[Edited on December 29, 2006 at 9:40 PM. Reason : fdsh]

12/29/2006 9:38:48 PM

Theyve been a very good team in the regular season.

The postseason is a different ballgame though.


Indy cruised through the reg season last year and were flat out beaten by the team many considered to be the worst in the playoffs.

Look at the Bears. The Panthers STOMPED them in Chicago.

1) San Diego does not have a dominant defense.

2) They have a coach who has never gotten over the hurdle despite some really good teams in KC. He lost home games there too and KC has much better homefield advantage than San Diego.

3) First time playoff QB's have a horrible track record

4) The bye week sometimes hurts teams as they come out nervous & flat while the other team is more prepared. Look at what happened to Denver in 1996 when they had the best team in the league.

5) There is not a lot that separates a win from a loss. I refuse to believe that any team is better than a 20% chance to win the Super Bowl this season because there are way too many teams that can legitimately win it.

[Edited on December 29, 2006 at 9:45 PM. Reason : a]

12/29/2006 9:44:37 PM

Quote :

"Try Bill Simmons"

Oh, you mean the biggest Patriots homer in all of journalism.

12/29/2006 10:08:26 PM

Thought it was pretty funny that in the video of the comeback from last week, when they do the slow motion on the last shot of Rivers with his hands up, the score at the bottom of the screen is of the Colts-Texans game...it was a good winning day for Rivers and Mario

12/29/2006 10:17:37 PM

^^ no you must be thinking of someone else.

Simmons is pretty fair and unbiased. No reason to think he has anything against the Chargers. He certainly hasnt touted the Patriots this year, if anything he's openly stated he doesnt think they're that good

12/31/2006 4:18:11 PM

How bad is rivers hurt????

12/31/2006 4:50:39 PM

he's hurt?

12/31/2006 4:56:48 PM

On the chargers board they said he was limping.

But he's still playin, and doing fairly well, besides an INT.

12/31/2006 4:58:47 PM

Good bounceback from the INT. I think I'm gonna go to the bar and watch this and the BAL game before the New Years Eve festivities..

[Edited on December 31, 2006 at 5:00 PM. Reason : td to gates]

12/31/2006 5:00:05 PM

touchdown, he's not hurt.

12/31/2006 5:00:08 PM

make that 2 touchdowns, he's not hurt.

12/31/2006 5:23:41 PM

C/ATT   YDS   AVG   TD   INT
17/20   196   9.8    2    1

12/31/2006 5:32:56 PM

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwaag_jackson-touchdown

seems he is hurt....

12/31/2006 5:38:26 PM

He might be hurt, but he isn't injured.

12/31/2006 5:44:20 PM

they put in volek; i think that means he's hurt?

(just watching the gamecast)

12/31/2006 6:42:08 PM

they took him out because the game was sealed for em, and no need to further cause injury to his ankle. If he was seriously hurt he wouldnt be in the game in the 2nd and 3rd qt. Good news is 1) he rapes even with a bad ankle, 2) they clinche home field adv, and 3) they have a first round bye.

12/31/2006 7:17:53 PM

just nitpicking... rivers injured the arch of his right foot (throwing foot); not his ankle.

12/31/2006 10:50:25 PM

Quote :

"The Chargers were widely criticized for letting veteran quarterback Drew Brees go and relying on an untested second-year pro. All Rivers did in his first 14 games of the season was complete over 62 percent of his passes, throw 18 touchdowns and just eight interceptions, and lead the top scoring offense in the NFL."

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/0612/gallery.2006breakoutplayers/content.10.html

1/1/2007 12:52:32 AM

the NBC highlight show talked about him getting hurt while they showed a play of him passing the ball

FOX showed him getting sack/tackled with his foot/anle bending

NBC is dumb

1/1/2007 1:09:03 AM

Rivers is in a boot

should be back for their game though

1/3/2007 10:27:25 PM

sounds like he's just taking it easy during their bye week

http://www.signonsandiego.com/sports/chargers/20070103-1637-fbn-chargers-rivers.html

go bolts

1/4/2007 4:16:22 AM

Quote :

"Rivers was at least involved in practice. Coach Marty Schottenheimer said offensive coordinator Cam Cameron let Rivers call plays while backup Billy Volek took the snaps. "

hahaha! that's such a raw deal for volek. it's probably a routine practice around the league when starting qb's get hurt, but i still think it's a little demeaning for the backup qb.

1/4/2007 5:54:45 AM

I thought Whitehurst was the bckup QB?

or is he 3rd string?

1/4/2007 7:56:50 AM

^ yep, he's 3rd string

1/4/2007 8:08:31 AM

http://www.chargers.com/team/depth-chart/

1/4/2007 9:26:20 AM

yeah, volek is #2. one of his stipulations before signing with a team was that he has to be 2nd string at worst.

1/4/2007 2:00:05 PM

Quote :

"Rivers was at least involved in practice. Coach Marty Schottenheimer said offensive coordinator Cam Cameron let Rivers call plays while backup Billy Volek took the snaps."

Phil is sitting a week out in practice for a sprained foot, but they are letting him call plays in practice. They are trying to see how competent Phil is and if they can really turn him lose Peyton Manning style where he can call his own plays at the line (at times). Probably.

http://wral.com/sports/football/nfl/story/1125543/



[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 8:16 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2007 8:15:47 PM

rivers isn't wearing the boot anymore, and he was walking around without a limp.

1/6/2007 6:24:52 AM

all my prayers for the next week will be that Philip plays like he did earlier in the season throughout the playoffs. I got enough of all the shit-talking about NCSU guys in the league with Mario Williams(totally undeserved) and Koren Robinson(NOT undeserved).

1/6/2007 9:17:05 AM

^

funny, my gf made me Philip Rivers bible for xmas. It's pretty much copies a catholic bible with a lot of Rivers/football/NC State/Chargers references. Awesome ass gift but i'll admit it's borderline obsessive.
but hell, Phil is the man and god himself.

1/6/2007 11:01:26 PM

some guys on the chargers board have been posting highlight clips of PR this season:

http://www.dailymotion.com/j4son/video/xvh4x_philip-rivers
http://www.dailymotion.com/jcdavey/video/xxq26_rivers06

here's the final game-winning TD drive in seattle:
http://www.dailymotion.com/DelMarBoltFan/video/xuwio_philip-rivers-leads-the-chargers-ba

go bolts

1/7/2007 6:23:10 AM