CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Los Angeles, which did not want the Chargers or even encourage their move, has them now, and they are a team in divisional contention.
That's if you subscribe to the legitimacy of the 7-9 division winner (2010 Seahawks), who not only got into the playoffs but won a wild-card game (a feat last seen here in, ahem, 1994.)
It also sort of applies if you recall the 8-8 Cleveland Browns of 1985, who won the Gang of Four divisional race and nearly beat the Miami Dolphins in the playoffs. The "gang" was identified in a column by a skeptical writer (me, although I should've said it was written under an alias after the Browns nearly won the playoff game) as Harpo, Chico, Groucho and the seldom mentioned Zeppo.