I’m not a football fan but…

I was flipping channels last night and saw that the San Diego Chargers were playing the New York Giants. The score was Giants 20, Chargers 23 and had three minutes left in the third quarter. I thought, “oh good, they are ahead.” But decided against watching the game because I figured they would just lose like they did the last two games. Besides, no one else was home so I could watch whatever I wanted. Law and Order came on later so I watched that with my dad when he got home.

As soon as it was over Dad suggested we watch the 10 o’clock news. A few minutes into the broadcast they get to the Chargers game. They talk about how all the fans were booing and chanting against Eli Manning. Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that. Eli Manning is the quarterback for the New York Giants and last year he was San Diego’s first-round draft pick. Manning didn’t want to be a San Diego Charger and San Diego was rightly offended. The noise in the stadium was deafening whenever Manning played. On and on the story went when finally they got to the final score — 23-45 Chargers. What? Nobody scores that high in football. I couldn’t believe it and started laughing hysterically. I think I laughed for about 25 minutes. Talk about getting a beating! That was almost as good as when the Diamondbacks beat the Yankees in the World Series four years ago.