@OldNavy1988 you must be a Rams fan/Giants hater. And thanks for giving us Larry Fitz ITTL.
IOTL, my dad's side of the family were Chargers fans before the team moved to Carson, except I was more of a fan of football in general. I didn't like the Giants because of the incident in '95 where a fan threw a snowball at Sid Brooks, who was the Bolts' equipment manager at the time.
The NFC West ITTL is pretty much a three-way royal rumble with the Rams with Eli Manning and Michael Strahan, Seahawks with Matt Hasselbeck and your Cards. At this year's trade deadline, Arizona acquired Ed Reed from the Browns to shore up a secondary that hit the skids after the retirements of Aeneas Williams and Kwamie Lassiter respectively. With Ed Reed, the Cards can still move up to grab Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie in '08 Draft.
The AFC West on the other hand, the temperature on the Charger/Raider rivalry has risen with Tom Brady in Vegas and San Diego still having their trio of Tomlinson, Gates and Rivers. Junior Seau has returned to the Bolts for one last season before he joins Fox as a World League announcer. Right in Seau's prime, then-Charger owner Bruce McNall's financial fuckups sent Junior to the Rams when those guys first hired Belichick. That's right, the Hoodie has gone Hollywood! Meanwhile in Vegas, Brady has pretty much made Art Shell's second tenure as Raider head coach better than his first.
NFC East has been all Eagles the last few years with the Giants smaller in stature, the Cowboys more like Lolcows and the Heroes more like Zeroes.
NFC North, Favre is the gift that keeps on giving for the Pack. Throwing interceptions on crucial downs is what Favre does best. Urlacher is still the leader for Chicago while the Vikes and Lions bring up the rear.
NFC South had been dominated by Vick and the Dirty Birds. The Saints, now with Drew Brees coming over from San Diego are the rising stars in this division. The Bucs' core of Sapp, Brooks and Dunn are starting to get old and a rebuild is on the horizon. Despair and Depression are an epidemic in Duval County as the Jacksonville Jaguars haven't won a game since October when their move to St. Louis and subsequent rechristening as the Sorcerers was approved by the NFL. Attendance at the Jags' final home game against the Dallas Cowboys was 200 tearful Jacksonvillians bidding farewell. Sure, Jacksonville is getting a WLAF team in March and fans are already camping out for tickets to pack the Gator Bowl, but to lose the Jags will be a tough pill to swallow.
The AFC South had been all Oilers the last few years, but how much longer will fans be content with Jeff Fisher's 8-8 finishes since winning the Super Bowl at home?
The AFC East is mostly Brooklyn under Tom Coughlin and New England under Pete Carroll duking it out for first place the last four years with the Bills and Marauders bringing up the rear.
The AFC North this year has been dominated by Cleveland with Ray Lewis as the Browns' unquestioned leader. The only teams that can really touch Cleveland at the moment would of course be the Steelers and Colts. The Bengals? Still the same old Bungles like OTL.
The Chargers had the #1 pick in the '04 Draft, but Archie Manning didn't want Eli to suffer the humiliation of playing for Paris Hilton. She was later forced by Paul Tagliabue to sell the Bolts to Casey Wasserman after the incident with her chihuahua crapping on the field before the Chargers' scheduled 2004 home opener. That game was to be the Raider debut of Tom Brady. By the way, that game was rescheduled for what was originally the bye week for both teams and Vegas won 63-0.