Draft day follow up
After reading Bill’s post, I just wanted to interject. Bill is correct, this is all pretty much the Chargers fault, but the whole idea of a draft is you don’t get to choose where you are going, right? I’m not defending anyone here, but you see I’m totally biased. I’m from Baltimore. I remember that @#$@#$ John Elway telling the Colts don’t draft me or if you do I’ll play baseball. I honestly believe that that was the big decision for the Colts moving to Indianapolis all those years ago.
Unfortunately, Elway got away with it and is now well loved by NFL writers. He even got a Super Bowl ring. He reminds me a lot of Roger Clemens. You never get the feeling that the word ‘team’ is used in those clubhouses. Sure, there’s plenty of blame to go around (hello, Mr. Irsay), but I’m still mad. I can certainly relate to Browns fans losing their team (ironically to Baltimore) and then they won it all. I feel your pain. I can’t legally cheer for the Ravens under the Bill Simmons’ Sports Guy rules (Colts fan until they moved, then I was given a chance to re-choose a team and I picked the Patriots), so I certainly know what you went through to a certain extent.
Anyway, let’s face facts. The Chargers have pretty much always sucked, they don’t seem to have a plan for winning (what West Coast teams aside from the Lakers do …well maybe the Angels, but whatever), so I can certainly see where dad was coming from, and it’s not like he held a press conference. Oh well draft day should be interesting. The Patriots are charging an ungodly sum to go to the stadium and watch the draft. You do get a buffet though….