Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
It’s a one-game season for the teams in this weekend’s Conference Championship games. Win and you’re on your way to sunny Glendale, AZ for Super Bowl XLII on February 3. Lose and it’s the sudden beginning of a long offseason. “Our whole season is at stake and so is theirs,” says New England Patriots head coach Bill Belichick in describing his AFC Championship Game against the San Diego Chargers. The same can be said for the New York Giants and Green Bay Packers in the NFC Championship Game.

Both games are rematches of Week …read more

Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
The San Diego Chargers had no business beating the defending Super Bowl Champs on their own turf, but that’s exactly what happened this afternoon as the Chargers went into Indianapolis and beat Peyton Manning and the Colts 28-24 to advance to the AFC Championship game. This was my lock of the weekend. Of all four Divisional Playoff games, this one I was most certain of. The rested and now healthy Colts would be ready. But, I failed to look at the success of San Diego in this building. It really did mean something. …read more

Blogging the National Football League, Blogging the NFL
It had been 13 years since the San Diego Chargers won a playoff game. Lucky 13 as it turns out. After sleepwalking through the first half of their Wild Card game against the Tennessee Titans this afternoon, the Bolts scored 17 unanswered points to win 17-6. The playoff win was a long time coming for running back LaDainian Tomlinson, too. I can’t believe LT’s been in the league seven years already, but he ended his own postseason frustration as well despite being bottled up (21 carries for 42 yards) by a typically aggressive …read more