SAN DIEGO — With limited exceptions, there are few truly must-win games in sports.
The Super Bowl is one.
The Toledo football team's Mid-American Conference opener Saturday against Central Michigan is another.
Only the Rockets' season — and perhaps the fate of the free world — depends on it.
“A monster game,” coach Jason Candle said.
Now, are we getting a little carried away? Maybe.
There's nothing the media enjoys more than breathlessly freighting every game with titanic stakes, lest we admit the event we're covering really isn't that important. (Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy brilliantly poked fun at his wolf-crying media peers in the press conference before Game 7 of the 2016 World Series, deadpanning to Cleveland manager Terry Francona: "Would you call this a must-win game?