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The Dude Abides...What Happens When You Finally Hit Back

In the days of the old west, you didn't get into another man's face unless you were prepared to engage your pistolas in the center of town 10 minutes later.

 

The Chargers failed to realize this yesterday.

 

And the Broncos were the only team left standing after all the gun play.

 

Apparently, for some unknown reason, the Chargers thought they were still dealing with a previous version of the Denver Broncos.  Like a drugstore cowboy might do, they decided to walk over with their fancy-buttoned, powder blue shirts and pick a fight during pre-game.   Classic paper tiger, schoolyard bully stuff.  Here is how Kizla (Denver Post) described the event:

 

 

As Broncos linemen came out onto the Qualcomm Stadium field for their pregame warm-ups, they entered on the side of the field where the Chargers were already going through drills.

The Broncos gathered for their motivational huddle on the sideline, still in Chargers' territory. Chargers linebacker Tim Dobbins, otherwise known as the player who wasn't credited with a fumble recovery on the Ed Hochuli blunder last season, was among those who took offense.

 

 

 

Watching this during the pre-game was interesting to me.  Three things stood out:

 

1) The Chargers appeared that they needed this to fire themselves up.

2) Phil Rivers was in the mix talking trash as well.

3) Denver did not back down.  To the contrary, they were ready to get it on.

 

And it's the third point that made me smile.  This year, we are not seeing your run of the mill Nate Webster bravado (with all due respect to this helmet-losing former Bronco).  This year, the Broncos believe in themselves.  And they won't be backing down.

 

This ain't your daddy's Denver Broncos.

 

After the real bloodshed, in which Rivers was beat to the turf six times by Denver (five in the second half), Rivers played the victim, which is exactly what you would expect from a grade school bully that suddenly got punched in the face...again and again and again:

 

 

 

"There were couple of things I didn't like that they did," Phillips said. "They didn't talk trash all game and then at the end they had everything to say. There were several little things like that which I view as childish and petty."  (Source: Scott Bair, North County Times) 

 

 

The pot has officially called the kettle black.

 

Perhaps Phil defines childish as double stunts and middle gap blitzes.  Perhaps he defines petty as not letting Shaun Phillips get inside of your defensive huddle and talk trash.

 

Or perhaps he just doesn't like getting punched (and bloodied) in the mouth by a division opponent so damn hard.

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HAHA

Ah silly dolts. Don’t they know that Colorado was home to the true gunslingers of old? Don’t they know that, within the confines of our borders, burns a fire to never back down that has finally crept into the hearts of our beloved Broncos? Don’t they know that Phil Rivers cannot escape a crazed Dumerville no matter how he tries?
 
Don’t they know?

Apparently not.

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"Success is not a place at which one arrives, but rather... the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey."
- Alex Noble

by DenBronx on Oct 20, 2009 11:34 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

So...

Not talking trash all game but letting their play do the talking is childish? It’s called class.

"as in football so in life"

by asinsoin on Oct 20, 2009 11:48 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

+100

Yeah…run your mouth after you have won, not before silly boy

"Precipitation, which side are you on?
Are you on the rise? Are you falling down?
Let me know, Come on let's go, yeah
Got some if you need it!" -EV

by sadaraine on Oct 20, 2009 1:01 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

and if you lost,

don’t sound so childish.

by idahobronc on Oct 20, 2009 2:30 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

but ...... he. ............ he........... "What are you saying Philip? Tell me what's the matter."

……….. that mean man……. number 92…………. he …………. he…….. …………. he hit me………. wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

If Taylor Swift were to try and tackle me, I'd let her.

by kentuckybronco on Oct 20, 2009 3:15 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Hahaha, this just makes that silly “Inside the Brain” or whatever the crap that was before the game special on Rivers that much more entertaining.

“Blue 42, Red 68, Oklahoma, Oklahoma!! Oh Jesus this guy is crazy! Somebody get 92 off me, GAHHHHHH!!!!! Umph, the ball! Where’d the ball go! Where’d he come from? GaHHHHHH!!!!”

by aLuffabo on Oct 20, 2009 12:31 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Help me out here, Dude.

If there is ever a time to talk smack, wouldn’t that time be AFTER you just beat down your opponent?

To the winner go the spoils…

- Jason

Horton is WIN - HORVIL TIKI

by jubei on Oct 20, 2009 12:50 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

But,

it’s just not fair to have it pointed out to you that you were talking s#!% all afternoon, and got stuffed back into your corner like the whinly little turd you are!

Go home, Pip. Let’s see you do something about it in our house.

by BroncosBassist on Oct 20, 2009 1:12 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

BB – flagged as inappropriate

by Endzone on Oct 20, 2009 1:20 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Huh?

- Jason

Horton is WIN - HORVIL TIKI

by jubei on Oct 20, 2009 2:35 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

not you jubei, BroncosBassist. His reply is completely inappropriate.

by Endzone on Oct 20, 2009 3:47 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

Let's face it, SD is a bunch of punk players to begin with

They can’t take a beat down, they cried all year when New England did the Merriman sack dance after they beat them in the playoffs, they cry every time when someone beats them. Yet they act like fools when they win. Merriman thinks he is Ray Lewis, and he is just a roided punk, Rivers showed that he still is a whiner and a crybaby. Here’s the deal, shut your mouth and win, then you have nothing to worry about.

"Me fail english, that unpossible" - Ralph Wiggum
"Duffman is thrusting in the direction of the problem" - Duffman
"Good, bad, I'm the guy with the gun" - Ash from Army of Darkness
"H.I., you're young and you got your health, what you want with a job?" - Evelle from Raising Arizona
"It happens sometimes. People just explode. Natural causes." - Agent Rogersz from Repoman

by Broncoman on Oct 20, 2009 1:30 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

Didn't see very much humility for sure.

The look on Norv Turners face when the game ended was classic…I just lost my job look.

by bfree2bronc on Oct 20, 2009 1:42 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

The Paper Tiger reference was near and dear to my heart.

I knew I had called it right last year, but I failed to notice that our Broncos were an even worse Paper Tiger in 2008. lol

Now we are an angry real tiger who is willing to devour its own young…yummy.

Verbose in style, dispersion of thought, procrastination in life.

The guy formerly known as ZAPPA

by Tim Lynch on Oct 20, 2009 2:45 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

To catch a paper tiger..............

If Taylor Swift were to try and tackle me, I'd let her.

by kentuckybronco on Oct 20, 2009 3:17 PM MDT up reply actions   0 recs

This ain't your daddy's Denver Broncos.

and these ain’t Mommas Boys neither. Knowuddamean?

Character may be manifested in the great moments but it is made in the small ones -- Philip Brooks

by KaptainKirk on Oct 21, 2009 12:29 PM MDT reply actions   0 recs

What really cracked me up

Was Merriman’s veiled threat that the Chargers and Broncos play again and it’ll be payback time.

And just what will Norv be able to do different in Mile High?

Make those miracles happen - Jon Keyworth

by IgorBStrange on Oct 22, 2009 2:58 AM MDT reply actions   0 recs

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