This isn’t going to be a long post but I wanted to put my 2 cents out there and share a little story about Philip Rivers and all the grief he’s been getting about his trash talking lately. So many people know Rivers by his interviews and see his aww schucks attitude, but I know that is not the whole story. I was lucky enough to be at NC State during Rivers’ career (and Torry Holt’s!) and know that he is one of the most fiery competitors out there.

While at State I played just about every intramural sport I could find (its one of the best things about college!), and basketball was one of them. Some guys and I from my dorm (Metcalf) had a team and we were pretty good, at least good enough to make the finals of the league tourney. Unfortunately, for us our opponent was a team of super athletes from the football team. There is not much chance 8 slow white guys have against the likes of Willie Wright, David Stringer, and Philip Rivers among others whom i can’t remember, so needless to say they beat the smack out of us and the whole time Philip was talking smack. If he’s gonna talk smack during intramural basketball I pretty much assumed he was going to do the same playing division 1 ACC football.

People are now just noticing. Being the starting QB on the San Diego Chargers will get you that attention, especially when you are 27-7 in your first two years as a starter. Its just a slightly more prestigious position than being the NC State starting QB. I don’t have a problem with his smack talk, I’m sure his teammates love to have a QB whose a fighter, albeit maybe not so much with the fans, but I have no problem with Phil talking smack to Jay Cutler after the Denver game. I’m going to assume that was provoked somehow during the game but who knows. You have to be that kind of competitor to play at that high of a level, some people just aren’t being real and will say the typical ‘coach-speak’ if you will, at least Philip Rivers is being Philip Rivers, a fiery, intense, helluva a QB.