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The AFC and NFC Pro Bowlers were announced a short while ago, and why make some pointless comment you are sure not to laugh at when we can just give you the rosters instead? Here goes.

The Chargers-Titans playoff game features perhaps the best defensive lineman in the NFL, Titans defensive tackle Albert Haynesworth, trying to stop perhaps the best runner in the NFL, Chargers running back LaDainian Tomlinson.

And there's a fun little added element to the competition: Haynesworth and the Chargers lineman who will be primarily responsible for blocking him, guard Kris Dielman, don't seem to like each other. Kevin Acee of the San Diego Union-Tribune writes that a lot of defensive players hate the way Dielman plays.

"I think he was above average, but all he did was try and hold me down – just nonsense, that stuff," said Albert Haynesworth, the Tennessee Titans' Pro Bowl defensive tackle, who faced Dielman last month and will again Sunday in the wild-card playoff game at Qualcomm Stadium. "I mean, he didn't really block me one on one. The only thing he did – and it made me mad – was try and hold me down, thinking he did something when he didn't."

Haynesworth said of the Pro Bowl, "We voted him as an alternate. Maybe if he cut out all that dumb stuff . . . But as far as we go, we thought he played pretty good and we voted him as an alternate, first alternate actually."

Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

"I don't care if that's what he wants to say," Dielman said when told of Haynesworth's comments.

For his part, Dielman said Haynesworth was his most difficult adversary this season. Against Haynesworth and end Kyle Vanden Bosch, also a Pro Bowler, the Chargers' offensive line struggled for three quarters at Tennessee before wearing the pair down and figuring out their stunts.

The Dielman-Haynesworth battle is, for hard-core fans, the best individual matchup to watch on Sunday. My money is on Haynesworth winning the battle, but the Chargers winning the game.