Comments on: Why do the San Diego Chargers have home field advantage against the Colts?

By: TP

TP — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:45:59 +0000

Chargers are a division leader and Colts are a wild card team despite Colts with a better record, but they didn't win their division.
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By: SDbolt

SDbolt — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:25:59 +0000

All you colts fans just wait, I predict another 5 int game by manning go bolts
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By: atmadick

atmadick — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 09:07:59 +0000

Is it really mattered? Colts will destroy Chargers at Quacomm Stadium anyway..
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By: halfzeimer

halfzeimer — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:18:59 +0000

They won their division. You have to make the division worth something. It was just the Colt's misfortune that they were in the same division with the Titans.
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By: Thomas E

Thomas E — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:35:59 +0000

The division winner gets the home field during the first round of the playoffs, so by virtue of winning the AFC West division, the Chargers get the home-field advantage.

Usually in the playoffs, regardless of home field, the better team will win the game, so I personally look for the Colts to win the game.

This happened last year, too, by the way, when the wild card Jacksonville Jaguars, with an 11-5 record, had to go into Pittsburgh and play the Steelers, the division winners with a 10-6 record. Jacksonville won that game.

But a wild card team, which the Colts are this year, can NEVER get a home game in the playoffs, except in the unlikely event that both wild card teams advance to the conference championship game, in which case the higher ranked wild card team (in this case the Colts) would get the home field advantage – so if we have a Baltimore/Indianapolis AFC championship game it will be in Indy.
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By: Inge (pro-Eddie)

Inge (pro-Eddie) — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:02:59 +0000

Chargers won division, Colts are a wild card team (tenessee won division, remember) but don't worry, they'll crush the bolts at qualcomm
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By: are u a vampire?

are u a vampire? — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:46:59 +0000

Yeah, they won their sorry, lame, weak ass division known as the AFC West. The Colts are on a roll so I expect a Charger loss.
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By: NFL_MANIAC

NFL_MANIAC — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:41:59 +0000

lol jared.
thats what ppl said last year, and SD went INTO INDY, and beat them.
this year they're at home.
SD is gonna kill indy
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By: jaredleto27

jaredleto27 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:16:59 +0000

the colts will rape the chargers. the afc west is a joke. the nfc west an even bigger joke. the entire west is a joke
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By: hawks_4_life

hawks_4_life — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 06:03:59 +0000

Because the Chargers won the AFC West when they beat the Broncos Sunday Night and because the Titans were so good during the regular season, and the Colts are in the same division (AFC South), they had to settle for a wild card spot, which is a lower seed than a division title. That doesn't mean the Colts aren't favored however.
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