Tonight, Philip Rivers Looks to Make Things Less Confusing For Himself
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↵The Chargers are a grand total of 24 seconds from being 2-0 instead of 0-2. Against Carolina in Week 1, they lost on a TD pass by Jake Delhomme as time expired and last week they lost to Ed Hochuli*. Through it all, however, Philip Rivers has been having a blast, right up to the losing part:↵↵⇥“These are the situations you dream about,” Rivers said this past week. “But winning them is the key.”↵⇥↵⇥“It’s been a lot of fun,” he said. “... The feeling of scoring and going ahead when you’ve been down, it’s ... I don’t know how to explain it. But then you end up on the wrong end of it.”↵⇥
↵↵Philip Rivers is easily confused. His brain has trouble processing the “yay, touchdown!” emotion with that “boo, lose game” feeling. Tonight he looks to declutter his head of all these conflicting happy vs. sad thoughts and lead the Chargers to their first win as they host the 1-1 Jets. ↵
↵Speaking of the Jets, they have Brett Favre, and that’s pretty much all you need know about them. Just ask Tony Kornheiser, who said that Favre’s season is the biggest football story of year thus far. So, you can expect Tony K to continue his trend of over-the-top man-love for Favre this evening -- he openly admitted as much. If you’d like to spice things up, you can make this into a fun drinking game. Although if you actually wanna make it to work tomorrow sober and not reeking of reversal of fortune, you should probably drink every time Kornheiser speaks and doesn’t say Favre’s name. Otherwise, you’ll quickly find yourself so intoxicated that you’ll be on your knees in front of your flat screen begging incoherently for him not to mention No. 4 again. ↵
↵↵As for a prediction, I’m going with the Chargers to win, although the spread is currently at 8.5, which is a pretty big number, especially considering how close San Diego’s first two games have been. If I was a gambling man (which I’m currently not much of, although I’m trying my bets to become a degenerate), I’d take New York and the points. And I’d also take the over (45.5). ↵
↵↵*Last week, we told you about Hochuli responding to hate mail with apologies. The NFL apparently told him to man-up and pipe-down: “As for Hochuli, the league told him this week to stop e-mailing and responding to people apologizing for his screw-up. In the league’s opinion, the more Hochuli talked about it, the more he kept the controversy alive.” Hochuli obviously didn’t get the memo about the NFL’s strict policy against admitting when you’re wrong. ↵
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