...and that's what turned the Chagers into sniveling snot suckers after the game?
The thing I find amazingly funny about that is that some of the Chargers players (including LaDainian Tomlinson) were incensed that some of the Patriots players were imitating the disrespectful dance performed by Shawne Merriman.
Now, it is one thing to lose your temper when an opponent performs a disrespectful dance to taunt you. It is quite another to lose your temper when it is done to you in retaliation. Live by the sword, die by the sword.
The whole trash talk thing in sports is completely offensive to me, but if you wish to do it, you better be prepared to get it back.
I used to be a hockey goalie, and in my league we had one team that used to taunt us unmercifully. On the ice they were bad enough, but even when they were in the stands, they would loudly and rudely taunt the team, especially me. As a goalie, some of that is part and parcel of the game, and if you cannot get used to it, you simply will be unable to play, since so much of the game is mental. Their abuse went so far beyond anything I (or anyone else on my team) had ever experienced in 15 years of playing hockey. Well, one night from the stands, I took it back to them with spades, to the point I had their entire team completely unhinged on the ice.
I hated doing it. But anger will sometimes drive you to do things you might not normally do. (BTW...this was an adult league, no women, children or even spectators were present...)
I did get some degree of satisfaction from seeing that they were unable to take what they so eagerly, maliciously, and freely dished out. The hockey team was from...get this...Cambridge, the hotbed of liberalism. Figures.