So a little backstory here (I’ll try to keep this short and sweet).  My sister, Mary, went to college at Sonoma State University.  There, she met and became best friends with Alex, and Alex quickly became a friend of the family.  Several years later, Alex married a man named John Conti.  She and John live up in Orange County, and John is a regular guest and contributor to KLAA AM830’s afternoon program, “The Drive“; he’s basically their NFL guru.

On yesterday’s show, San Diego Chargers special teams extraordinaire, Kassim Osgood, was a call-in guest and was interviewed by the team at KLAA.  Kassim has been on the Chargers since 2003, and was twice selected for the Pro Bowl (in 2007 and 2008) for his excellence at special teams.  Off the field, he is easily my favorite Chargers player to follow on Twitter.  Not only does he talk about football and give some new insight into the team operations, but he actually acts like a normal person on Twitter and tweets his feelings and opinions on things completely unrelated to football.  He even has a segment he does on Twitter called “the couch”, where he invites his followers to ask him questions and seek his advice.  Whenever he does that, it’s generally guaranteed to garner a few laughs from myself.

Mary too is a big Kassim fan, and add to it that John was going to be a part of his interview, she called me and told me I had to record the segment.  So, I did, and I cut it down to John’s NFL segment which includes Kassim’s interview.  Without further ado, I present yesterday’s show:

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On a side note: today I became a contributing columnist for the best San Diego Chargers resource on the entire web, Bolts from the Blue.  It’s a fan–run blog, but don’t let that fool you, it’s easily the most in-depth site and well-run website I’ve come across.  The knowledge and level of expertise among the people who are a part of the site amazes me to this day and is a valuable resource for any Chargers fan.