Well, I was certainly wrong. Here I thought Charger fans were going to head out to the "Q" in force on Sunday now that the team is in control of the AFC West and winning again. Guess not. With less than 24 hours to go and needing to sell 6,000 tickets (on Thanksgiving) to avoid a black out this weekend, it looks like Chargers fans are going to miss out on watching the game at home for the first time since 2003. My friend, Nick Canepa, in his column today wrote a few reasons why they black out was inevitable, but he forgot one of the main points. Right now on eBay, tickets for the game are essentially being given away. Those do not count as part of the 6,000 when they sell. Why in the world would anyone pay the face value and get a nose bleed seat, when they can pay less than half the face value and have a pretty good seat? I don't think a sponsor, or Chad Ochocinco, is going to buy the 6,000 seats and alas, the game, even on DirecTv, will be blacked out. Knock knock, is that the L.A. market calling the Chargers back when Arnold's new stadium is built? I think so.
In other cheery news, trade talks for Adrian Gonzalez are increasing. Knowing that his value may never be higher, our new GM is doing his best to unload our home grown hero and supply us with a bunch of unknowns for essentially a wasted 2010 season. Call it rebuilding if you want, but I call it no interest at all in providing a quality product, thus I think fans should boycott the entire season. Why pay major league prices to see a minor league team?
I have to say, with the news of Allen Iverson retiring; I am a little bit bummed. I don't think the NBA will be the same without him and am shocked that no team was willing to give him a chance. The New Jersey Nets have lost 13 games in a row. Iverson would love to play in the New York market and he couldn't hurt the team. He'll go down in history with Dan Marino, Junior Seau, Karl Malone, Cal Ripken, Jr. and other greats of their sport that never won a championship. We always want those guys to go out like John Elway, but that rarely happens.
Finally, a follow up to the Antonio Cromartie story, he is still being investigated for throwing a bottle of champagne at a patron in the bar that he, Stephen Cooper and Shaun Phillips were at, at 1:15 in the morning following the dominate win over the Broncos . I am still not sure what was said to cause Antonio to toss the bottle, but the picture is pretty gory. In case you haven't see it. Here it is:
I want to wish everyone a happy and safe Thanksgiving. Until next time.
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