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Column: Even 40 years later, Chargers’ game of infamy hard to accept

Sez me

“December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy.” — FDR

“December 29, 1979, a date which will live in NFL infamy.” — Sez Me. ...

No FDR am I — although I have been elected to a fourth term.

And certainly my date in no way is as historic or important as the beginning of a war. It’s about football, which likes to think it’s a war. Games do not make wars or heroes.

What makes 12/29/79 so important in NFL annals is that it may have been the date — 40 years ago today — of the worst loss in its 100-year history.