Show Us Your Lightning Bolts

Today's the day the Chargers will officially unveil their new uniforms, which means you don't have to think too hard to figure out what will be the lead story on Kyle Kraska's sportscast tonight on Channel 8 -- Your Chargers Station.
The uniforms' new look actually leaked out late last week, and judging by the buzz we've been hearing and reading, a lot of people really, really hate the new look.
We don't know what the fuss is all about. Really, the new uniforms don't look all that different. It's not a radical change, which it easily could have been. The new threads look OK to us. As long as the Buffalo Bills are still in the league, everybody else is a distant second in the worst uniforms standings.
However, if we had the unfortunate timing of spending nearly $300 on a shiny new Charger jersey this past season, only to see the team suddenly change uniforms a few months later, well then maybe we wouldn't be too thrilled right now.
But what do we know about uniforms? We've never been in love with the powder blues that everyone else gets an erection over.
The Charger Web site will soon be taking pre-orders for the new jerseys, and we can't wait to test the system to see if it will allow us to order a new one with "Leaf 16" on it.
But what we really find intriguing about this story is this: There's been quite a buzz surrounding this topic for the past several days. Everywhere you go, somebody's talking about it, somebody's got an opinion on the Bolts' new uniforms.
Three months after the Chargers' season ended and they're still dominating the local sports scene. The Padres have been at spring training for about a month now and the Chargers still dominate the news.
Which confirms what we've suspected all along. This really is a Charger town, not a Padre town. The Padres are just something to amuse ourselves with during the football offseason.