Shaun Phillips' Birthday Cake is Amazing

The dude made roughly SEVENTY times my salary last year. Is he supposed to not celebrate that? Should he pretend he has no money? Is he not allowed to enjoy the riches of his hard labor?

I’d love to see anyone making that type of money and not, every so often, enjoy it. Actually, no I wouldn’t. That’d be an even bigger crime.

Just because you prefer Rivers’ hobbies (family) to Phillips (dancing, shopping) does not mean they’re better or that SP is a douche. The guy definitely gives 100% in practice and during games, should he be the one who gets the choose his own interests and how he spends his money?

Considering that the rest of the league thinks of Rivers as the Emperor of Doucheland. We all know its not true and perception isn’t reality, but its a great example of how people can be misjudged based on scant information. Maybe that’s also the case here with Phillips?

Isn’t the purpose of a blog and the pictures posted on said blog to provide us NEW (and old) commentators a forum to express our opinions?

I mean, come on. If you’re young, rich, and single, why not go a little hedonistic? I mean, most NORMAL folk do that on their birthdays.

Its a cake. Nothing more. Something fun for his birthday. Is he not allowed that? Does he have to be studying film and working out 24/7/365?

Again, I don’t think anyone here is being critical about the cake itself (that cake is an impressive piece of art) or drawing conclusions based on the cake alone, or being critical about guys with money having fun. If that was Legedu Naane’s cake I am sure everyone would have another reason to think Legedu is dope but since it is Shaun Phillips’ it is yet another reason to think Phillips is a clown. I don’t think he’s a clown because he is “living life to the fullest” (whut up 2 all y’all lozerz who b eatin’ caret cayke) by putting pictures of himself on $100 bills (and we all would be laughing if you were a regular guy who did that, the irony and all) I think he is a clown because I actually do read what this twit tweets and it it is disturbingly shallow, immature and, at times, mean-spirited. In fact, one of the redeeming things about Twitter is that there is no misquoting middleman to tweak perceptions—what you see is what you get and what you get from him is a whole bunch of bulls%*t. That aside, because we of course don’t need all of our football players to be statesmen or Philip Rivers, his behavior on and off the field, for a lot of Charger fans, for good reason, seems to be emblematic of one of the very few things that has wrong with this team the past few years. From his running yap to his bullying of bar staff and patrons; from his inexcusable playoff penalty and his subsequent childish unaccountability over it (check out his recent interview on XX1090 with Darren Smith and his response to it for a perfect illustration of why people are fed-up with him and other shameless self-promoting, entitled and immature athletes) to his legal troubles; from his pre-game bong rips and skirmishes with coaches to his constant in-season bar presence and his wack bowling dance; Shaun Phillips, to me, represents what is wrong with the Chargers and is one of the reasons the Chargers come up short when it matters most. This latest douche-move is just icing on the cake. (Apologies for my own douche-move there.)

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W O R D.

yes, we prefer SP over Merriman.

A bit egotistical but what the hell, right? And if you REALLY want to quibble about “character”, Merriman is no less of a barfly than SP.

And those under contract, just like the Chargers front office

and your friends and family were rooting for you to turn your life around? Would they still find the cake hilarious, or could they possibly take it as a sign that maybe you’re not on the right track? Just sayin.

having a birthday cake that is a suitcase full of money is more hilarious to me than a really rich guy having the same cake, but maybe that is just my sense of humor.

That being said I still have no problem at all with him having a cool birthday cake.

Insisted on a Murph cake (He still refuses to call it Qualcomm) and almost got the wife to allow the playing of the San Diego Superchargers!! song as they walked into the reception, but not quite. We did pass the DJ a copy of it which he snuck in during the festivities later in the evening.

I blame John for choosing the wrong picture.

who goes headlong into fatherhood with the same bad attitude. Like this twitter nugget: “My boy said a girl was so ugly that she looks like relish. Lol.”