Archive for February, 2010

Feb
5

And I will pray to a big god, as I kneel in the big church

Bow down before the one you serve. You're going to get what you deserve.We think we know what we're doin', but that don't mean a thing. It's all in the past now, money changes everything.

Welcome to another offseason, bitches. It seems fitting that a season in which pigs flew, hell froze over and the Saints turned the whole damn system upside down would be followed by an offseason unlike any other. As in the regular and postseasons, most of us will be spending lots of time furrowing our brow in a vain attempt to understand the situation while wondering whether this is a momentary glitch in the normal order of things, or whether it's the beginning of some kind of crazy-ass "new normal." Either way, it's gonna take some getting used to. Continue Reading…

Feb
11

Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right…

One of the fringe benefits of winning a championship is that you get to piss a bunch of people off in the process. And then you get to laugh at them.

For as many new fans as the Saints picked up during their championship run, they were inevitably going to pick up a large number of brand new haters as well. Which has to be disconcerting to certain esteemed members of our local media, who have never been too keen on increasing competition in the first place. But for us Saints fans? It's big fun. Continue Reading…

Feb
28

The Finest Hour

Thank you, thank you, thank you.You know how sometimes when you hope and wish for something to happen, maybe for a very long time, and you imagine a million different ways it could possibly play out, and you wait and hope and dream and wait and wait and wait… and then it finally comes to pass, and you just can't help but to be a little let down? You've built it up in your head to such an impossible degree of epic greatness, there was just no way the actual event could live up to what you had dreamt of?

This… was not that. Not by a long shot. This wasn't just better than you possibly could have scripted it. It was better than you possibly could have imagined it. Continue Reading…

Feb
27

I remember throwing punches around and preachin’ from my chair…

In case you haven't heard, Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts have a game this Sunday. Nobody's really sure who the opponent is gonna be, but everybody's pretty sure it doesn't really matter.

For some reason, the Saints have apparently taken a field trip to Miami to partake in the festivities. Must be one of those Sean Payton motivational techniques. Word is ESPN has arranged for a box full of Peyton Manning's jocks to be delivered to the Saints' hotel so that they can Smell Greatness. Continue Reading…

Feb