PLAYERS:
Alex Spanos,
Norv Turner,
Mike Tomlin,
Rob Ryan
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Pittsburgh Steelers
TEAMS: San Diego Chargers, Pittsburgh Steelers
Welcome to all those who heard about JIC on the Darren Smith show Wednesday night. If you missed Eric Stangel’s interview, you can hear it here.
When you’ve lived in New York your entire life, you get asked many times “How you got into the Chargers.” It’s like asking people how they became a fan of a certain band or what got them hooked on a particular drug. Using the latter analogy, I tell people that Wes Chandler was my “gateway Bolt.” In his interview, Eric did a nice job of summing up how and why we became Charger fans. He was responsible for distributing the original issues in 1995. Yes, it was actually copied and sent in the mail. Check out this blast from the past.
When you look at those old issues, it’s amazing how much piss and vinegar I’ve got. I just wrote for hours. Not surprisingly, I was single and had taken a hiatus from drinking at the time. I discover in that old issue/post, the closest thing I’ve ever written to a Justice Is Coming mission statement:
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