You want to see a collection of 300-pound men positively giddy despite being exhausted and even as they anticipate the pain that will assault their joints and muscles in a matter of hours?
Then go to the Chargers locker room after a victory in which the team rushed 35 times for 150 yards.
“It makes it a lot easier when you can sit there and grind,” center Matt Slauson said. “Football is a very intense sport. There’s a lot of chess that goes into it. But when you break it down, football is just football.