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Some of us are old enough to remember when the Bengals and Raiders did battle in the 1975 playoffs. Now get off my lawn.

Trust me, you absolutely made the right choice. Especially in 2010. Working in radio can be a lot of fun. I had the good fortune to run three of the five different stations I worked at in my career. Of those five stations, working at four of them was a blast. The fifth one is what started my exit from the industry. That place went out of it's way to suck all the fun out of working at a radio station. It was like working at Mr.Potter's bank in It's a Wonderful Life except not as much fun. I did my best to shield my staff from all the misery, but that just got me in more trouble with the company president. Eventually, I said it and tried to get fired. After four months of trying, I finally unlocked the code by taking a day off to go to an Indians playoff game. When I came in the next day, the company president was there waiting for me. He asked "was it worth it?" Knowing this was going to be it, I decided to get my money's worth. I said "I'll get another radio job, but I may never have another shot at sitting behind home plate at an MLB playoff game so yeah, it was totally worth it." He proceeded to say "In all your time here, I've never understood you" to which I replied "and that's the problem. You run this place like a bank and no one likes working for you. Now since you just fired me, I'm done with this conversation." If I'd had any guts at all I would have added "now go yourself." FWIW, it's been 24 years and to this day that station still uses the same marketing campaign that I implemented. I'm kinda proud of that. That said, letting me talk about my days in radio is a bad idea. As this post has proven, I tend to go on and on about it.

Sounds about right. My first job as a program director was for an AM sports station in Syracuse where I was hosting an afternoon drive talk show. After my promotion, I was getting paid a whopping $7.75 an hour. To further illustrate just how little it pays to be in radio, I got the promotion to program director and the raise from $7.00 an hour (7 bucks an hour to host a talk show, mind you) because I had been offered a job as an evening DJ on a music station in Charlottesville, VA for big bucks - $8.00 an hour. That was in 1996. In today's money, I was making about 14 bucks an hour. The sad part is that I seriously doubt most of the DJs at small market music stations today are making 14 bucks an hour. If those stations even have live DJs which is doubtful. The most money I ever made in radio was when I worked for Premiere Radio as a "field consultant." For radio, that gig paid pretty good. I was making $45K and I worked from home. That was in 1999 so in today's money it's about $72,000 a year.

Obviously it's Ken Anderson, but he was on a supernatural level . I meant that Montana is the best mere mortal to play the position.

Whatever. Montana is still better.

Fun fact. The Chargers have had the following QBs. Dan Fouts - Hall of Famer Drew Brees - Going to be a Hall of Famer Phillip Rivers - Probably a Hall of Famer Justin Herbert - The jury is still out, but he sure looks like he's going to be really good. The QB that led them to their one Super Bowl appearance? The immortal Stan Humphries. I don't know what that says about the franchise, but I'm pretty sure it says something.

You're right. At that point, the Chargers were playing for the tie - which was their only viable option. They had to put their best run defense on the field to try to keep the Raiders from getting into better FG range. We criticized the decision because we wanted to watch the world burn. It's what this place does.

No chance that post ends up in someone's sig, right?

Only the Chargers could be that all stupid. They should have just missed the XP on the TD to tie the game and saved us all the trouble.

The universe is cold and uncaring. There is no justice.

Cowards.

How great would it be to be a fly on the wall in a Yinzer sports bar right now?

Kneel downs from here on in.

My guess is every fan outside of Pittsburgh feels the same way.

That works too.

Now we need a Chargers FG and a bunch of kneel downs.

In all my years as an NFL fan, I've never rooted for a tie...until tonight.

You left out the part where they win five more Super Bowls.

That's way too simple. If ever there was a game to implement BBTV's new rules for NFL football, Chargers - Raiders is it.

I know that we don't count any NFL championships won before 1966 around here, but the Colts did win the NFL title in 1958. EDIT: Turns out the Colts won the NFL title in 1959 too. I didn't know that.

And then you all jumped on the bandwagon of another team that was "ripped away" from its city. FWIW, I acknowledge that Baltimore got screwed in 1983. What I won't do is feel bad for you about it now. Browns fans are funny that way.

I missed it by one game.

BBTV has been named the official CCSLC CTE Expert. The Majestic XII have spoken.

Good enough. I'm designating you as official CCSLC CTE expert.