thats not the point merriman does to dance to get himself,
the fans and maybe even the team excited. whether it works
or not is another question. he is not mocking, he is celebrating.
what the patriots did was mock another player. plan and simple.
so your argument about which is more "jerky" doesnt make sense
to me. besides the whole thing about class, and celebrating,
and who was mean to whom is all nonsense. no one will remember
who did what 5 years from now just that the patriots won and
the chargers lost.

SeanR wrote:

Great posts all. You know, sometimes "this too shall pass"... isn't really
true. I still think the Air Coryell was the greatest offense of its time,
but without a SB they leave a tragic legacy. The Cincinatti Ice Bowl was a
quarter century ago, but how many fans (of a certain age) don't still have
bitterness about that game.
Opportunity is fleeting. Fate has a way of snatching it away when one lets
the moment pass. How many people thought that 3 months after SB XXIX that
Natrone Means would hold, get injured and then never hit that level again;
Bobby Ross would have been fired; David Griggs and Rodney Culver dead; Bobby
Beathard in the beginning of his GM spiral; and that that young team would
see a only single wildcard playoff game for the next decade.

gooch wrote:

Merriman's dance is a taunt of the quarterback he's just leveled and the
offensive lineman(en) he's just beaten. Don't kid yourself. Patriots
defensive linemen do the same thing, as do most d-linemen in the league.
I don't like, but it, regrettably, has become part of the game. To
whine about after a loss is beneath a player of LT's caliber.

BTW, was it just "celebrating" when Merriman, after losing the Defensive
Player of the Year award to Jason Taylor, said (and did) "I sent him a
Lights Out hat and a Lights Out T-shirt and a bag of popcorn so he can
watch us in the playoffs."

I feel exactly like a Charger fan. This is the quintessential feeling of
being a Charger fan.

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Robin Miller wrote:

To me, this loss is worse than the 94/95 Superbowl loss. Everybody's
expectations for this team were high and our team blew it.

I was pretty upset, but I am getting over it. Life goes on. Too many stupid
mistakes yesterday. Players being over confidante and not doing what they
have been doing all season long

On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:36:05 -0800, Chargers are losers
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I'd really like just Chargers' fans to respond. There are plenty of
other threads for the trolls.

I still feel hollow. All of that excitement and anticipation just ripped
out of my gut, replaced with nothingness. I cannot accept what happened
yesterday. How could this happen? How could they play like that? It's
one thing when the other team clearly dominates you, like when the 49ers
massacred the Chargers 12 years ago. But yesterday, all that greatness
wasted... It is incomprehensible, unthinkable, almost unholy. I've been
a Chargers' fan for so very long. Sure, the Chargers should be a good
team for years to come. But that means nothing to me now.

On the practical side, I still want the team to drop Marty and cut
Florence immediately. I'm not even sold on Cam or Wade, even as
coordinators. Cam's failure to run the ball in the second half yesterday
is inexplicable and unacceptable, and Wade's prevent defense at the end
of the first half handed the opponents points on a silver platter, just
as he did all season long. I'd be inclined to clear them all out and
find fresh blood. I'd rather lose with new younger coaches who might
learn something than with these old guys who have been fired multiple
times already and repeat the same tired old shit game after game.

Robin Miller wrote:

Whoa, Robin, sorry you feel this bad.

I personally don't feel that bad. It was really lame yesterday, but to
put it in perspective, only one out of the 32 teams gets to finish the
year in the playoffs without being eliminated. I realized that awhile
ago. That's why I was so anti-Pollyanna. Winning a championship is not
that easy, especially at that level where the stakes are so high.

Still, I feel you. There's always hope for the future. It's not like
there's a lot of free agents leaving. The talent will still be there.
The team will learn from this.

Robin Miller wrote:

I'm bummed, but it's not the end of the world, IMO. We will return a
majority of our team & have the players to be a contender for several
years to come.

As disappointing as losing yesterday was, we really had a solid shot to
win against arguably the best team of the past 5-6 years.

The bone-head penalty against Florence is definitely the most
exasperating play of the game as it kept a drive alive that resulted in
a NE score.

The 4th & 11 try instead of going for a 48yd FG remains a mystery, too.