Charge This!

Thank you Patriots for proving my point, with one of the ugliest games of post-season football I've ever seen. A stadium full of Chargers fans, making as much noise as possible when the Pats had the ball and New England still managed to win the game...with some thanks to Marty Schottenheimer, who clearly should be giving clock managing - and challenge flag throwing - classes at Football Coach University.

Despite Tom Brady's less than stellar performance - and thanks to some impressive kicking by Stephen Gostkowski - the Patriots are still in the running for another Superbowl ring. Colts? At home? Cut that meat! Cut that meat!

The San Diego Chargers are Pussies

Forgive the non-baseball post, but I found this amusing: the San Diego Chargers are trying to limit attendance at this Sunday’s playoff game to home fans only by automatically canceling any orders placed online to credit cards whose billing addresses are not located in Southern California. The Chargers join the Bears as the only teams with this policy for the playoffs.

In other words, Chargers fans are so weak and Patriots fans so intimidating that the Chargers felt the need to stack the deck in favor of their team to give them a better chance to win and they did so in the only legal way possible. Whether or not this tactic will work is a better question – Red Sox Nation has some big overlap in Patriot fan territory and I’m pretty sure there’s a big contingent of Sox fans in Southern California, plenty able to buy tickets.