The Bears and Chargers Hate Each Other

I wasn't aware of it, but apparently there's a lot of bad blood between the Chargers and Bears right now. Maybe it all started when Ron Rivera left the Bears for San Diego, because ever since then everything the Chargers do pisses off the Bears.

Like that LaDainian Tomlinson commercial where he tears the Bears defense up?

The Bears didn't take too kindly to it, though LaDainian insists it's only a commercial.

"I didn't make the commercial. I'm endorsing Nike," Tomlinson said in a conference call Wednesday. "If that's showing disrespect to the Bears, then I'm sorry for that. But it's a commercial, so guys should take it for what it's worth.

"I don't know how this thing got blown out of proportion of what it really is about. If they need motivation or whatever, then so be it. Our motivation is to win games. That's it. Not to talk trash."

Oh, snap! You see how he got that whole "I don't talk trash" in there while he was talking trash? It's obvious that LaDainian is a seasoned pro at this.

The talk between these two teams doesn't end there, though. You know that stupid "Lights Out" dance that Shawne Merriman does when he scores? Well, somebody asked Brian Urlacher about it, and he said it's stupid, too.

"The thing is, if you're going to do it, do it all the time," Urlacher said. "Do it when you make a bad play too. You'll never see me doing any stupid [stuff] like that after a play. The only thing I'll do is get a little happy with my teammates."

Man. I haven't seen two sides who hate each other this much since the PLO played Israel in that badminton tournament last year at the Y.