The preaseason schedule was announced and the Chargers find themselves being attacked by birds.
The Seattle Seahawks will nest at Qualcomm for the fourth year in a row to get things going.
Then the Bolts are off to battle the Super Bowl runner-up Arizona Cardinals.
The Hitchcockian portion of the tour ends with the Chargers swooping into Atlanta and facing the Falcons.
Preason and my weak analogy is capped with a home game against the San Fransisco 49′ers.
Nothing spectacular to look forward to, but football is football. Is it August yet?

Several media outlets are reporting that Broncos quarterback Jay Cutler will be traded out of Denver.
From Yahoo! Sports:
Broncos owner Pat Bowlen said that the team came to the decision after both he and head coach Josh McDaniels tried unsuccessfully to reach Cutler.
“Numerous attempts to contact Jay Cutler in the last 10 days, both by head coach Josh McDaniels and myself, have been unsuccessful,” Bowlen said. “A conversation with his agent earlier [Tuesday] clearly communicated and confirmed to us that Jay no longer has any desire to play for the Denver Broncos. We will begin discussions with other teams in an effort [...]

San Diego sports fans without satellite radio or internet equipped phones might sparsely tune into XX Sports Radio for their sporting news.  Fans of terrible afternoon radio shows on Double-X exclusively listen to the “Bleacher Bums” program.
A few weeks ago co-host Jordan Smith went off on a LT rant, which is becoming mandatory in local media, and things got a little silly.
AwfulAnnouncing reported that after getting into a diatribe about LT’s Thanksgiving charity tradition of giving turkeys to the turkey-less, Mr. Smith suggested that LT “shove the turkey’s up his ass.”
Believe it or not, Jordan Smith was dismissed from his post. The [...]

Movie geekdom website Aint-It-Cool-News.com is reporting that former Charger Terry Crews has joined the cast of the upcoming Sylvester Stallone action flick ‘The Expendables’.
The role was originally going to Forrest Whitaker, than 50 Cent, and now to Crews.
In addition to writing the movie, Stallone is directing and starring along with Mickey Rourke, Jason Statham, Jet Li, and Dolph Lundgren. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is rumored to make a cameo as well.
Crews has carved out a decent acting career, appearing in TV’s ‘Everybody Hates Chris’, the hilarious and underrated ‘Idiocracy’, ‘The Longest Yard’, and ‘Friday After Next’.
Will ‘The Expendables’ be the ultimate action [...]