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Odds and ends heading into Sunday’s game at Tennessee:

** Titans coach Jeff Fisher is 0-3 against the Chargers but 2-2 head-to-head with Norv Turner.
** The Titans are tied with Cleveland, both at 7-5, battling for the AFC’s final wild-card playoff spot. Jacksonville is 8-3 and has a one-game lead for one of the two WC spots.
** Chargers have won six of eight after a 1-3 start
** This will be the 39th meeting between two franchises that first met in the American Football League as the Houston Oilers and Los Angeles Chargers.
** They played three times in 1960, splitting the regular season series before Houston won the the first AFL Championship, 24-16. Players on the victorious Oilers each earned $1,016.42 (according to the Titans weekly release).
** The Chargers and Oilers met again for the 1961 AFL title and Houston won again, 10-3.
** They wouldn’t meet again in the postseason until 1979 when the Oilers beat the San Diego Chargers, 17-14, in an NFL playoff game.
** Chargers coach Norv Turner was an assistant coach at USC when Titans coach Jeff Fisher was a defensive back for the Trojans and Turner coached the DBs in Fisher’s senior year (1980).
** Titans offensive coordinator Norm Chow coached Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers during his freshman season at North Carolina State in 2000.
** The Titans rank fifth in the league in first-down defense. Tennessee holds opponents to 4.58 yards per first down play. Arizona leads the league at 4.48 following by Indianapolis at 4.53. San Diego is 10th at 5.02.
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