So the “Excellence in Sports Performance Network” decided that merely beating a team twice in one season still doesn’t mean you are better than them.

Len Pasquarelli, ESPN

“Courtesy of San Diego’s upset victory Sunday at the RCA Dome, the world won’t get to see the NFL’s two best teams vying for the right to stretch the AFC’s Super Bowl winning streak to five by whipping an overmatched NFC opponent. And we won’t have an opportunity to see another chapter written in what has grown into an epic rivalry, one in which the two organizations just flat-out don’t like each other.

The next revisiting of New England vs. Indianapolis will have to wait for another day.”

It’s really annoying when people try to hold on to statements about one team being better than another (scoreboard, everytime) when the supposedly better team lost once, let alone twice, but to act like the Chargers and Patriots don’t have a far more heated rivalry than the Pats and Colts is just ridiculous.

Do you remember the team who went into Foxborough and ended the Patriots all-time home winning streak? Do you remember the team who came into the Q last year and upset the Chargers on some 4th quarter magic, then showed their lack of class on the 50? Too recent you say? Do you remember the team who won the AFL championship in 1961 by dismantling the Boston Patriots 51-10?

There is history, and this should be an absolutely great game to watch.

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