Throwback Thursday:Best SDvsNE moments

Posts your favorite Chargers-Pats moments. There's been a lot of good ones over the years. Here's mine

I'm not nearly as rational during game time as I try to be in my analysis afterward. There was a time when remote controls would cower in the corner, wondering if their time as a functioning device was coming to an end.

As you might imagine, I wasn't handling the first 20 minutes of the 2006 divisional game against SD very well. Other than a couple stupid plays - Rivers telegraphing a screen, and still trying to loft it over Rosey for the easy pick being one - there wasn't much going right for my Patriots. At 14-3, I was certain the season was a little more than a half away from being over.

But then my three year old daughter walked up to me and said, "why are you getting so upset, Daddy? The Patriots are going to win." Just like that, as matter-of-fact as can be. Stunned, I sat back down, watched the rest of the game in relative silence and damned if she wasn't right. Still to this day the first thing that comes to mind when I thing about the Chargers.

As for my remotes, I can still recall the last one to pass away suddenly. It was when Orande Gadsden was credited with a catch to put Miami in position for a game winning FG despite the fact that he stepped out of bounds during his route and didn't get either foot down in bounds while "making" the catch! It was too bad the remote couldn't stick around to see Troy Brown's game winner a few minutes later, but them's the breaks, I guess.

Oswlek said:

There was a time when remote controls would cower in the corner, wondering if their time as a functioning device was coming to an end.

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One of the funniest sentences I've ever read on this board. Kudos, sir.

Stay classy folks.

Troy Brown ripping the ball away in 2006.

Troy Brown stripping McCree in the 2006 Divisional. Ultimately cost Schottenheimer his job, ended a Rivers season, and ended a Thomlinson season.

Pretty damned hard to beat that (in the context of San Diego).

Oswlek said:

As for my remotes, I can still recall the last one to pass away suddenly. It was when Orande Gadsden was credited with a catch to put Miami in position for a game winning FG despite the fact that he stepped out of bounds during his route and didn't get either foot down in bounds while "making" the catch! It was too bad the remote couldn't stick around to see Troy Brown's game winner a few minutes later, but them's the breaks, I guess.

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I remember that game. The Miami DB after the game said that he watched hours and hours of Troy Brown videos and never saw him that far downfield. Woops.

LT calling us classless was just priceless....i mean i was smiling for a week strait when thinking about that game

How about my first Charger memory? For some reason the image is stuck forever in my mind, but I don't recall the exact year. I was just a kid.

The game was at Fenway Park in the 60's, and I was standing/walking along temporary bleachers running along the green monster. At that time, the goal posts were on the goal line and there was this huge guy from the Chargers, a mountain of a man, warming up before the game without pads by slamming his shoulders into the padded goal post on the center field side, to my left. I can still visualize those posts swaying back and forth, back and forth, with each slam he made into the padding.

The guy putting on the show was big number 77, Ernie Ladd, all 6'9" and 300lbs of him. Even by today's standards he was big. I can't tell you anything else about that game, but I sure remember that big guy on the Chargers. He made a lasting impression.

And for something completely different...



"Go, big Vince! GO!!!"

Lady T sulking on the sidelines wearing his helmet because he had a sprained something while Rivers played on a torn ACL in the AFCCG but damn that was cold.

Does anyone have a video of that 06 playoff game? Id love to watch that over the off season. Gotta be one of my favorite pats game of all time.

To me, that was the last great playoff game the Pats had. They overcame mistakes and gritted out a win in enemy territory.

I remember we went to SD in 1996 for a Sunday nighter and I thought for sure we were in trouble. They ended up waxing them 45-7. It was a huge road win and that's when I really thought, wow, look out, we got something here. Drew threw for 4 TD's and the D came up with 4 INT's. SD had a solid team and had been to a SB 2 years before and were 7-5 and we were 8-4. We had gotten smoked at home like 2 weeks before by the Broncos and I just thought no way. I was stunned how we dismantled them in prime time.

I don't remember the game or the year but LT sitting on the Foxboro sideline, I hate that guy maybe more than Marshall Faulk.

The Chargers lost to theNew England Patriots, 21–12.[44][46] A lasting image from the game is Tomlinson sitting on the Chargers bench, and his helmet with a dark visor still over his head.[44] Some Chargers fans and media—including Deion Sanders—questioned Tomlinson's toughness.[44][47][48]Retired NFL great Jim Brown said Tomlinson "looks so comfortable sitting there ... And then you have his quarterback out there giving everything he had, and it was a contrast between the two visually that when you looked at him and you looked at Philip Rivers, you said well, damn

OhExaulted1 said:

I remember we went to SD in 1996 for a Sunday nighter and I thought for sure we were in trouble. They ended up waxing them 45-7. It was a huge road win and that's when I really thought, wow, look out, we got something here. Drew threw for 4 TD's and the D came up with 4 INT's. SD had a solid team and had been to a SB 2 years before and were 7-5 and we were 8-4. We had gotten smoked at home like 2 weeks before by the Broncos and I just thought no way. I was stunned how we dismantled them in prime time.

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I was also going to mention this game...national media kinda started to take notice of the 96 pats aft this game...also think I remember Slade and mcginest sandwiching Stan humphries and breaking his nose...humphries had the crimson mask

I think most of us can agree that the 2006 Divisional Game was the best of any time we met them. So many ups and downs. That game was not going well as I recall. Brady threw a few picks and the offense couldn't do much at all in that first half. It seemed like the game was going to be lost but an 11 point lead is far from insurmountable for the Patriots so there was still hope.

Troy Brown's strip was unbelievable. I couldn't believe how badly we lucked out. All the DB had to do was fall to the ground and the Pats are as good as dead. Caldwell's catch, Kaeding's miss, Hobbs dancing causing a scuffle and best of all, "Classless".

Honorable mention for Week 2 of the 2007 season. Right after Spy Gate we came out and kicked some ass. Randy was making it look easy.

Oswlek, glad you reminded me of that game. It was a goodie. That BS call when the guy was blatantly out of bounds and the coin toss controversy. The football Gods saw the injustice that day and made sure we won w/that long bomb to Troy.

Slightly off topic Q but still in line with the general premise of this thread ....

Who came up with the nickname Lady T, and when?

Not only one of the great all time put-downs, but just so damn true!

I remember in the mid-oughts when the Chargers were sort of considered a rival (along with Colts and Steelers), but it seems a bit distant now.