Wow. My normally hapless SD Chargers are smokin’ hot this year, peeps! Every week, I nearly wet myself watching them play.
And yesterday’s game was just …. insane. 48 to 20 over the Denver Broncos. Clinched the AFC West. Right now, the #1 team in the NFL. I don’t think this has EVER happened in my lifetime.
But that LaDainian Tomlinson was the clincher. He set a new NFL record for most TD’s scored in a season — 29 — AND did it with 3 games left in the regular season. I absolutely have a sports crush on him. He’s always so humble about it, doesn’t showboat in the end zone at all, just scores the TD and throws the ball back to the ref. So when he scored that record-breaking TD and THIS happened instantly, I just started to bawl, peeps. Literally, the very next sound you heard was the clacking of all those helmets together. Beautiful. All those big guys just charging at him, raising him on their shoulders, the deafening roar of the home crowd, the massive spontaneous explosion of love and appreciation for this amazing, humble player. Look at the crowd behind him, cheering and snapping pictures. I’m telling you. SD fans are incredibly loyal. It was just an electric, thrilling moment.
Bawling. I was bawling at a damn football game.
Also, please notice the butt of my other SD sports crush, Antonio Gates.
I’m glad someone’s happy. This weekend was so bad for my picks I think my chances in the office football pool are officially ruined!!! Oh well, at least I won one week.
Aw, who am I kidding? That butt picture cheered me up instantly. 🙂
Yes, Antonio Gates’ bum IS a nice little piece of holiday
cheer … 😉
They are, indeed, the San-D-Ay-Go… Super-Chargers!
So every time Gates goes into a three-point stance, your libido alarm rings, huh?
Every time Peyton Manning trots off the field and the Colts’ defense slinks onto the field, I just plain get alarmed.
I have to give it to your team, Tracey. They DO look good. I think they are the best team right now, hands down.
And I am saying this after the butt kicking they gave MY favorite team…the Broncos…on Sunday, so that’s really sayin’ something!
NF — Ohhhhh …. cringe. That song is everything that’s wrong with San Diego.
Dave — Yes. I loves me some Antonio. All 6’5″. Hubba. Hubba.
Shannon — Now that IS nice of you to say. You know, you guy started coming back in that 3rd quarter. I thought we were doomed there for a while.
NF — Oh, LORD. I just looked at that link with the lyrics and the song. I’d never known there were any other lyrics beyond the eloquent, soul-stirring:
SAN D-AY-GO SUPER CHARGERS!
SAN D-AY-GO ….. CHARGERS!
No, there’s THIS, too:
We’re coming your way,
We’re gonna dazzle you with our super play. (I am disturbingly reminded of that song “Rapper’s Delight. Anyone else know the, ah, lyric I’m referring to?)
The time has come,
You know we’re shooting for number one.
With thunderbolts and lightning (Because that happens ALL THE TIME in ol’ SD. Why, it’s thunderbolting and lightning even as I write.)
We’ll light up the sky,
We’ll give it all we’ve got, and more
With the Super Charger try!
I have to say, though, that I always laugh when the background singers chime in so perkily on “CHARGERS!”
But tou know, I’m kinda partial to the old fight song my dad wrote when he was in college:
DISLODGE THEM HENCE
DISLODGE THEM HENCE
MORE FORCEFULLY
MORE FORCEFULLY
There are also hand motions. They really must be done by my father and SEEN to be believed. Oh, there was also:
WE’RE NOT ROUGH
WE’RE NOT TOUGH
BUT, GRACIOUS, WE’RE DETERMINED!
That song is everything that’s wrong with San Diego.
Dude. Stupidest team song?
Super Bowl Shuffle.
I win.
“Dislodge them hence!” BWAAHHAHAHAHAHA! I MUST see this! YouTube it! Go go!
Sorry that it wasn’t your cup of tea, though. I love the song, actually – just because it’s so preposterously goofy, and the singer! I think they found the least-funky black man on earth to sing that song. You can just picture the rhinestone pantsuits on everyone in the Super Chargers video.
I also like the old “HOU-ston Oilers, HOU-ston Oilers” tune. BUM ba-daaaaa DUM.
Oh, no, NF! I think the song is HILARIOUS. Just cringe-worthy hilarious.
Lisa — Oh, yeah. That WAS bad.