Note to LaDainian: People who live in glass houses should not throw stones!
To call anyone classless first you actually have to have class and the Chargers running back does not have it. Classy people would meet their opponents at mid-field to congratulate them on the win and not storm off angry. Classy people would not call out the head coach of another team. And most importantly classy people would have respect for the teams they are playing next.
As hated as the New England Patriots are, they are still the model franchise for the rest of the National Football League. You would never, in a million years, call Tom Brady, Tedy Bruschi, Junior Seau, Troy Brown, Richard Seymour or Rodney Harrison classless. Sure these guys can be nasty competitors between the hash-marks but at the end of the game they will stand up and applaud the other team – win or lose. I do not think I have ever heard one negative comment about another team come out of Brady’s mouth (or Bill Belichick’s mouth) in a press conference. The Patriots handle things the same way no matter what the final score may be.
Compare that to the San Diego Chargers, a team who thinks they are the greatest thing since sliced bread when, in fact, they have basically been a one-and-done team the previous years. Philip Rivers takes the cake on this one. He is one of the cockiest athletes in professional today.
Did you see the San Diego-Indianapolis game on Sunday? As Rivers is walking off the field the with the Chargers trainer back to the locker room he is seen yelling at Colts fans and mouthing “I’ll be back.” But he never was back. It was back-up Billy Volek who dove into the end zone for the game winning touchdown, while Rivers was looking on from the sideline. The way he was standing it did not look like he was itching to come back into the game and neither did Tomlinson.
I know both Rivers and Tomlinson left with injuries but with the score so close and during this time of the season, it is “all hands on deck.” Curt Schilling returned to the mound for Game 6 of the ALCS against the Yankees after having his ankle sutured less than 48-hours prior. Dustin Pedroia played the last two months of the 2007 season (including the playoffs) with a broken bone in his hand. Michael Jordan played in the NBA finals with a 100-degree fever and the flu. Dodgers first baseman Kirk Gibson, pinch-hitting for Alejandro Pena, hobbling up to the plate with two bad knees to face the game’s best closer, Dennis Eckersley. Gibson looked horrible on his first two swings but on his third swing knocked the Eckersley fastball over the right field fence at Dodger Stadium. And who can forget what Brady in the AFC Championship game against the Steelers in 2004. The previous night he was in his hotel room getting IV treatments for a 103-degree fever. Winners do whatever it takes to win. They do not pull themselves out of games.
Philip Rivers is no better than Peyton Manning or Alex Rodriguez. When the game is on the line he chokes like Mama Cass on ham sandwich. Rivers is so eager to open his big mouth before big games but can not back it up when his is on the field.
In fact, the rest of the Chargers are no bed of roses either. When asked about New England,
Who is this Igor guy? Last time I checked Igor was the guy who lived at the top of the Notre Dame bell-tower. You know the hump-back? Doesn’t this guy know the more crap like this that spews out of your mouth the angrier the Patriots get? If Olshanksy wants to know what happens when you wake a sleeping giant, then he should give
The Patriots will let you trash talk all you want but be prepared to get it thrown back in your face on the field come Sunday. They let their actions on the field speak for themselves. When the Pats do come out as winners they let it all out. That is what they were doing last year in
The Pats do all their talking on the field because as Brady said “well done is better than well said.” Because that is what classy people do.
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