Super Sunday

The Chargers beat the defending Super Bowl champion Steelers 23-13 Sunday night, but we're not quite sure what to make of it.
Really, who doesn't beat the Steelers these days?
Pittsburgh (1-3) is struggling to stay ahead of the cellar-dwelling Cleveland Browns (1-4) in the AFC North.
But the Chargers (3-1) did look impressive. After the Martyball fiasco in Baltimore, the Bolts let Philip Rivers show what he could do and the young quarterback took advantage of a Steelers defense that couldn't get off the field in the second half, thanks to an ineffective Pittsburgh offense.
Rivers, who as a youngster played excitable neighbor "Ricky" on "My Three Sons," completed 24 of 37 passes for 242 yards and two touchdowns with one interception.
But the really big development in the game was the appearance of the San Diego Chicken at Qualcomm Stadium. NBC showed the Chicken parading around with a sign that read, "Chicken Seeking Date with Peacock" (Get it? Peacock ... NBC).
Now that's some gold-medal comedy there.
There was a time when we might have gotten a chuckle out of that. We're trying to remember what year we were in preschool.
But the night didn't belong only to the Chargers and a 58-year-old man dressed in tights.
Remember the Padres? They played Sunday night, too.
We'd like to thank the Padres for winning Saturday and postponing their inevitable elimination for one day, making Sunday a giant headache for fans trying to follow both games. The Padres' victory Saturday turned Qualcomm Stadium on Sunday into a sea of Terrible Towels and allowed many Chargers season-ticket holders to cash in when they sold their their tickets to Steeler fans. Nice going, Padres.
While Chargers season-ticket holders made deposits into their bank accounts, San Diego's reputation as a sports city took another punch to the gut.
"It's almost as if we're in Pittsburgh," said NBC's Al Michaels, who estimated there were 25,000 Steeler fans at the Q.
It would have been interesting to see what the Chargers crowd would've been like if there had been no Padres game.
All you need to know about the Padres playoff game against St. Louis on Sunday is that San Diego ended the series batting 2-for-32 (.063) with runners in scoring position. If we would've watched enough of the game, this would be the point where we'd quote something really annoying that Tim McCarver said during the Fox telecast.
The worst part about the Padres' season ending is that we're really disappointed we can't watch the alleged ace of the staff Jake Peavy pitch one more time.
Jake the Fake did make some progress in the playoffs, though. Yeah, he lost. Yeah, he gave up a huge home run to Albert Pujols. But Peavy's postseason record this year was actually better than his regular-season record.
While Jake the Fake was three games under .500 (11-14) in the regular season, his playoff record this year was only one game under .500 (0-1).
Nice going, Jake.