HOT FOOT BLOG, via DEADSPIN, has the reason we should look to mid-’80s movies for guidance in NFL handicapping:

Speaking of ’80s movies, no matter how hard we tried, we couldn’t find anything about the Bolts-Pats game, except for this:

Subtitle: “The Philip Rivers story“

• That tears it: ROTOWORLD hears that the Bolts’ Philip Rivers may be struck down by an injured ACL.

• San Diego might not be the only team minus QB, as the NORFOLK VIRGINIAN-PILOT notes that the starting signal caller for Virginia isn’t enrolled in school.

• DC SPORTS BOG bounces along the steps on becoming a Wizards ballboy.

• Even though he’s already been given a contract extension, 100% INJURY RATE finds Bud Selig digging for gold:

• HOME RUN DERBY is touched by fans at Fenway helping a disabled man sing the Star-Spangled Banner.

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San Diego’s upset over the Colts is becoming a painful victory. First, LaDainian Tomlinson gets hurt. Then Philip Rivers. Now…A.J. Smith?

The SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE reports that the Chargers GM took a tumble while exiting his team’s transportation Sunday night. Smith was the first one off the bus, but he tripped & fell outside the front door and had to be helped up by a security guard.

Smith joked that he may have sprained his MCL, but told fans not to worry: “Me, being the athlete that I am, I got up fast. I don’t know if anyone saw me. With all those (TV) lights, you couldn’t see. I’m glad I landed on my bag or I’d probably still be on the ground.”

Had the Chargers continued their woeful season start - especially right after firing popular coach Marty Schottenheimer - many fans would have been more than happy to keep Smith on the ground - 6 feet under, to be exact.

• DEADSPIN can’t hold in news of Kansas State’s Bill Walker finding relief courtside. And INTENTIONAL FOUL finds moving pictures of the peeing (watch the lower left):

• Is there something we don’t know? AWFUL ANNOUNCING points out that Tom Brady is in the running for Esquire’s Sexiest Woman alive.

• ALL BALLS gets down with their choices of top 10 Soulja Boy dances.

• 100% INJURY RATE has video of 8-year-olds getting a head start in their NHL goon careers:

• STEROID NATION learns that British kids as young as 11 have been juiced up - and not from apples or grapes.

• RIVALFISH wonders which blonde bombshell is next in line for Tony Romo.

• After knocking out the Knicks, FAN IQ finds Kevin Garnett discussing the New York situation and questioning Craig Sager’s fashion sense:

• RUMORS AND RANTS agrees with Philip Rivers that Chargers fans should just shut up.

• How bad are the Jets? VEGAS WATCH discovers they’re underdogs to the NFL’s only winless team.