Mar-ty! Mar-ty! Mar-ty!

[sigma7]

The channel on which I tried to record the Chefs/Bolts game today stopped transmitting. I think it was just trying to protect me. I did tune in occasionally between trips to Kinko's, got to hear the crowd chanting for its prematurely-fired coach, and that made me smile. Olbermann named the Chargers GM and president today's worst people in the NFL, and spot on; it's the worst disintegration of a professional sports franchise that I've ever seen that didn't involve a plane crash. Yes, the season is only one-quarter done, but if this Chargers team can't hang in with the Kansas City Chiefs? Get a roll of stamps and mail it in.

Well, there's the 2008 draft to look forward to....

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[rainfletcher.livejournal.com]

No kidding? The crowd was chanting for Marty? That makes me strangely happy... I'm not Marty's biggest fan by a longshot, but AJ Smith has been acting like a tool, and he did this team an enormous disservice by waiting to fire Marty until after their coordinators had already left to pursue coaching gigs elsewhere. How they can lose with this much talent is horrifying.

And just to let you know the kind of sports day I had: I started out listening to the Padres get their butts handed to them by the Brewers, thus keeping them from getting the Wild Card. I then switched to the Rockies and Diamondbacks just in time to hear the Rockies break an eighth-inning tie with a bases-loaded triple, thus forcing a playoff with the Padres.

Well, said I, that's enough baseball for one day. So I tuned in the Chargers about four minutes into the third quarter, to find them up 16-6. Oh good, said I, maybe I can finally hear one of my teams win.

And you know the rest.

[bedsitter23.livejournal.com]

Yer website is the first result in a Google search for "bring me the skull of norv turner".

I'm sure Marty is getting a kick out of all this.

I know my Cowboys fan friend is glad they went with Wade Phillips.

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

Yer website is the first result in a Google search for "bring me the skull of norv turner".

This makes me quite happy. It's good to occasionally beat the bandwagon.

God, this is going to be a long, long year.

[aardy.livejournal.com]

I have two words for you: Da Bears

[sigma7.livejournal.com]

So can anybody be a quarterback coach in Chicago, then?

I can't blame them for taking Rex Grossman out; I'm not sure he should be allowed to watch a football game, much less participate in one. But when Brian Griese is your fallback? You need a plan C, or just line up without a quarterback. Maybe punt on first down and let the defense carry the day....