A lot has been made of A.J. Smith firing Marty Schottenheimer last night; a lot of people that I greatly respect have given their opinions on the matter. Some side with Marty and some side with A.J. Some say Marty went 14-2 and desereved better and the some say he hasn’t won a playoff game and is lucky he wasn't fired earlier. What’s my opinion on the matter; well I won’t give you one. Instead, let’s take a look at the diaries of both these men. I’m sure they both made an entry last night.

From the Diary of Marty Schottenheimer, February 13, 2007

“Get this diary, I was fired last night. Let me tell you what happened. I was watching Happy Days on my brand new T.V. I’m telling you diary, this T.V. has all the works, and it even has color!!!! Anyways, I hear the phone ring, get up, and it’s A.J. on the other line. So I was thinking he wanted my input on the draft or something like that because he never calls. But no diary, that man has the nerves to fire me. Fire Ole’ Marty for no good reason. He was telling me we had some kind of dysfunctional relationship and I was like, we had a relationship? I thought the only reason you hired me was to turn San Diego into a contender and I did that. The contract that I signed said nothing about having a “good” relationship with the GM. Oh well, what can I do.

Jerry Jones kept bugging me about coaching the Cowboys but I told him no because I was very happy in San Diego. Well you know what diary; I’m going to take the Dallas Job. Wade’s the “supposed” head coach over there. I get a laugh every time I hear that that man is a head coach. What a joke. Even I have a better playoff winning percentage than him (stops writing, takes out a paper with coaches wining percentages in the playoff, starts writing again), OK never mind what I just said. God I really suck. Maybe that had something to do with me being fired.”

From the Diary of A.J. Smith, February 13, 2007

“Guess what Diary, I fired Marty last night. I know I said last month that he will be our coach for the long haul but I lied. Big freaking deal, all Marty did was turn our franchise around from a 4-12 team to a 12-4 division championship team in one year. And yeah, he went 14-2 this year, which was the best record in the AFC and blah blah blah. Like all that stuffs any hard. I once swam out into the deep parts of some San Diego beach and I was really scared. But that doesn't get any publicity and I'm sure what I did was just as hard. And now the experts are saying that if Marty went 14-2 and still got fired, how will other coaches believe I have a commitment towards them. You know what I say, go 19-0 and we’ll be perfectly fine. Like that’s a hard thing to do. I’m sure many teams have gone 19-0. But if he goes 18-1, tough luck, find a new job. I ain’t running no charity here in San Diego.”

So there you have it, the truth behind the firing of Marty Schottenheimer. I hope this post clears up what went wrong in San Diego.