The Powds blast the Chowds

  I understand this is a regular season game and the Pats were a little banged up and all but did we just not march into their house and shred it like a bull in a china shop? And in the process end NE's 21 game home winning streak. The wealth was spread around on offense. And the San Diego dee rose to the occassion. The secondary wasn't perfect, but played well in crunch time. They nipped the 3rd and long nemesis they have had all year in the arse for sure. Schotty kept the heat turned up, never getting conservative with the lead. I knew I was in for a strange day when I hopped on the bus to head down to Claudia's (Portland, Oregons nearest thing to a Charger bar) and as we drove 1/4 block to a stoplight a spectacular car crash occured right in front of the bus sending an F150 careening toward the bus and it stopped just inches short of us. I missed the kickoff cause of that. Everyone was ok, and we were on our way. So what did I walk into and see 1st on the TV? Veneteri missing a field goal! Wide right I believe. I knew we were on to something. Now solid, former end of last season "Shaky Nate", Kaeding drilled a 42 yd FG on the ensuing drive after Veniteri's rare miss. SA WEET, lookin' good but too early to mail it in for sure. The Pats responded quickly. I swear Tim Dwight caught more passes in this game than all the years he spent in SD! He caught an 11 yarder that helped set up a 1 yd Dillon run, Pats 7-3. Dwight would later make a spectacular TD catch. Got love for Timmy, wrong uniform on though. Gates was the target on the next drive, catching passes of 15 and 13 yds. He made the NE's db's look like little boys, towering over them. McCardell then snared a 34 yd TD pass from Brees, beating coverage cleanly and easily in stride. NE shaken, not stirred. Pats respond with TD's 30 yd TD reception, nice grab. 14-10 Pats. LT took over next drive, rushing for 29 yds on 4 carries the last being an 8 yarder where he homed in on the end zone like Lojack! Brady drove NE and settled for a FG of 34 yds. 17 all at the half. Not a bad place to be if your a Bolt fan. At this point as confident as I was I was leaning toward this being a shootout and he who had possession last would triumph. How wrong I was! I went into the 2nd half high on Coca Cola and 2nd hand smoke. I thought for awhile God was a Pats fan, but he sent a Bolt out of the blue that struck the center of Gillette Stadium. The stadium may be named after razors, but we were holding the old school straight razor and we sliced up the Pats in the 2nd half! Then beat em with the sharpening strap to boot at the very end, with a huge exclamation point! We needed to come out smokin' on defense and we did. Like freakin' Cheech & Chong, baybee! Jacque Cesaire dropped the All American boy for a 7 yd loss on the opening drive and giving us the ball. The end zone was our house in the 2nd half, and like Kid n Play back in the day...we had a HOUSE party! Brees was our driver and we drove like NASCAR. Brees hit little used but highly talented Reche Caldwell for a 28 yd strike and little did I know the rout was on. Eric Parker also made several huge plays during the game, just like I called in my pregame blog. "Afterburner" Turner #33 was a nice compliment to LT in the backfield ripping off several big gains and keeping the chains moving. The defense broke over New England like a south swell breaker at Black's Beach and Brady couldn't get out of the tube all day. He hung his head, frustrated. The guys on the bench for the Pats all looked like, "What the f*ck, this can't be happening to us, were the Patriots!" But happen it did, and no reputation from previous years was going to save this one. San Diego hadn't won in New England since 1970...the Hadl era and the guy bent over on the New England helmet with a sneering smile, ah, I love the old skool uni's. LT kept his TD streak intact, 16 games and counting. To pour some salt in the gaping wound, Dennis Edwards intercepted a pass from NE backup Matt Cassell and then pitched to Clinton Hart who took it home to add a dash of insult to injury. The exclamation point, just the facts ma'am. The fact is we kicked the Patriots proverbial ASS! It was like Lennox Lewis VS Butterbean. I kept singing a song they always play at Charger home games when big hits are made, "BOOM! Here come the boyz from the south, HA! HA! How U like me now!?" POD knows how to say it best, SD's finest border band. Payment Upon Death, could we have driven the 1st nail into the coffin of the end of an era? Too early to tell, New England can bounce back, or falter. The rest of the NFL will stand up and take notice, were far from done. Gonna tear through the "tin" curtain next week, just you watch. I end this entry with gospel words from a now failed rapper that describes this game perfectly, "You can't touch this!" GO CHARGERS!