Getting me ready for Countdown to Kickoff (Sunday at 1, with Richie Anderson and Mickey Spagnola, on Sportsradio 1310 the Ticket) and getting you ready for the season opener, here are some Chargers Links...
Chargers Defense ...
Chargers Offense ...
Chargers Schedule Analysis ...
Merriman to play ...
No. 1 draft pick Shawne Merriman has promised to play Sunday despite a knee injury, and it appears his chances of doing so have improved.
Merriman participated in practice yesterday with a brace on his left knee, and coach Marty Schottenheimer said the rookie appears to be "all right physically."
But Schottenheimer declined to say for sure whether Merriman would play. He is listed as questionable.
Merriman is now wearing No. 56, courtesy of Matt Wilhelm.
Well, not exactly courtesy. There is $20,000 involved.
Washington Post takes a look at the Chargers ...
The street isn't the same without Bob on it anymore...
ReplyDeleteIdea. How about creating a Podcast featuring the Homer Call of the Week? It's a great segment and would be fantastic to "collect them all" so to speak as the season goes by.
Wow, having a repairman come out to fix your fence.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to see that contract...
How the hell do you cut a phoneline repairing a fence? Did you have the Three Stooges doing the work?
ReplyDeleteYour contract must not be as big as we thought. You hired shitty repairmen. You can get Mexican day-labor to put up a fence, and they don't mess up the phones.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the "repairman" cut the lines while bob was away so he couldn't check up on sally...
ReplyDeletewhat do you mean your phone line is cut and you have no net? one should have nothing to do with the other, you need wireless.
ReplyDeleteBob is bald........Andre Agassi is bald. HOT!!
ReplyDeleteDSL works over the phone line numb nuts...
ReplyDeleteThis is from the blog SportsFrog. Great point and this why Mack doesnt get free pass. he wants to win his title by beating the losers of the world and eeking by someone in a national title game
ReplyDeleteAs the absolute joy of anticipation of an early huge intersectional non-conference game like OSU/Texas grows, we get this quote from Mack Brown courtesy of Stewart Mandel's latest on si.com:
"Texas coach Mack Brown doesn't seem to share Tressel's and Castiglione's enthusiasm for such matchups. In a conference call with reporters earlier this week, Brown intimated the 'Horns, who scheduled the Ohio State series roughly a decade ago when the program was struggling financially and competitively, might not have made the same choice under the present circumstances. 'At places like ours, we're going to fill up our stadium regardless of who we're playing,' said Brown, 'so we'd actually make more money playing another game at home, getting our guys ready for our conference schedule. So I don't see this continuing [beyond next year's game in Austin].'"
Heeeerrrrrrrreeee, puss puss puss puss puss!
Happily, Mandel notes that for some schools, the trend is in the other direction, with Ohio State scheduling USC in 2008 and 2009 and Miami in 2010 and 2011 as well as:
"USC and Nebraska will meet the next two seasons, as will Tennessee and Cal, while Oklahoma has arranged home-and-homes with Florida State (2010 and '11) and Notre Dame ('12 and '13) and is in discussions with Miami about a possible series in 2007 and '09."
Good. Those kinds of games are great for college football. As for Mack Brown, this weird quote:
"Now why do you have to be such party-poopers, Vince and Mack? It's starting to sound like we're more excited for this thing than you are. '[When the series was scheduled], the national championship game was not what it is today,' said Brown. 'At places like Texas and Ohio State, everyone wants you to win the last one, and obviously after Saturday, one of us is going to take a step back.'"
Well geez Mack. A national championship was always important, and an early loss was never helpful to that chase, even in the before BCS time. At some point, your team is going to have to sack up and play a game that matters in the course of a season. So it is coming a little earlier this year. Deal with it.
"what do you mean your phone line is cut and you have no net? one should have nothing to do with the other, you need wireless."
ReplyDeleteRiiight, because wireless doesn't need any kind of line running to your house to get to your router before becoming wireless. *sigh* Some people and their "tech knowledge".
Bob,
ReplyDeleteJust do the blog at work - Like Gordo does.
Don't be too impressed with anyone's schedule that was made a few years ago. Everyone was trying to upgrade their "strength of schedule" to help with the BCS standings. They backed off that and now everyone will go back to playing Sam Houston State.
You don't think OU wanted to play TCU for anything but an easy win and an extra home game. Things just didn't work out for them like they thought they would (thankfully).
strength of schedule was taking out of the ranking so there really is no point in playing anybody worth a crap
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Fake Sturm
ReplyDeleteI understand the neccessity arguement etc. my point was don't bitch about the game etc. Just sack up and if you are the best team you will win. Its that incessant whining that brings him the flack.SOS maybe out of the formula but its in the voters minds
Gas in Celina $2.99
ReplyDeleteGas in Pilot Point $2.72
Go Bearcats, Celina SUX!!!
By the way, Bob has been awfully quiet about the big game after so proudly claiming his confusing loyalty to the Celina Bobcats (oh, I get it, BOBcats)!!
You getting nervous sports Sturm? Huh? Oh yeah, you can't Blog b/c of the alleged "utility issue". Sure, that's probably what happened.
Just for the record, I'll need about 20 points if we're going to bet.
Since it's 11:15 and there's no updated Blog, I guess we all know what time Bob gets to work...must be nice AND I'd like to see that contract!!
ReplyDeleteI hate the P1
Nothing gets me more hyped for football season than geriatric has-been rockers and Freddie Prince Junior. BRING ON THE NFL!!!!!
ReplyDeleteBrown wasn't bitching. He was just saying it probably won't happen again because SOS was removed and it is now an unecessary risk to a big time team in a big time conference. Why does everybody bag on him? Remember Mackovich? That guy sucked. Brown may not have the ego and cocky attitude of Stoops, but he wins 10 games a year. Fran gets a pass, and he's done nothin'. Leach schedules the school of the blind and still only wins 7 or 8 games a year. Bag on those clowns. Stoops and Brown win games against real Big XII teams. They are the only coaches in the Big XII to prove something.
ReplyDeleteThe key to being a good college coach is doing a bad John Wayne impression in every interview, like Bob Stoops.
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