I'd like to apologize to all the people who called me out last week for being a whiny bitch. The Tampa game sure did show me the error of my ways. I don't know what I was thinking. Clearly, everything's just fine. Right?

Furthermore, I'd like to apologize for not being a "real fan" and for showing my true colo(u)rs by daring to acknowledge certain unpleasant truths about the Saints' current level of play. At the time, I didn't realize that I was "jumping off the bandwagon" but evidently, it's a good thing that the mob of "better fans" than I think I jumped, otherwise they'd be pushing me off.

Funny how quickly things change. Just a couple weeks ago, the local media were marveling at how Saints fans were as united as they'd ever been. Two losses later, and we're right back to the interminable pissing contest over who is and isn't worthy of seeing this thing through until the end. Who does and doesn't "deserve" to continue to participate in this here wild ride.

I'd like to retract something I said six weeks ago right here on this blog:

So I implore you, for the love of fuck, BELIEVE ALREADY! The only vicious cycle left to be broken is our own.

Poor choice of words on my part. What I should have said was "trust the evidence." I've come to realize that "belief" is something else entirely, at least to a "real fan." Real fans know when to trust the evidence, and (far, far) more importantly, know when to completely ignore it.

Oh sure, I'm well aware of the fact that mouthbreathing fuckwads like this guy are out there:

"Deckape 69" on CSC: The aints showed up again in the superdome yesterday and they had a new song (The Aints are coming Shoulda Woulda Coulda The Aints are coming). I am a Saints fan but I knew I could not trust them they do this very same thing every chance they get, they made Dallas look good then they made Tampa look like a playoff bound team.

Sean Payton should ask Gregg Williams for his $250,000.00 back (Shoulda)

Tom Benson would give the people a refund for yesterdays game if he were a human (Woulda)

The offense could have won had they not quit after the first quarter (Coulda)

The aints are looses for 43 years and will be for the next 43 years

In 2005 I routed for the opposing team and won most of the games, in 2006 they changed coaches got a new quarterback got Reggie Bush I said I'll give you guys one more chance and guess what if they do not make it to the Superbowl this will be my last year as a football fan

And clearly this guy is a frontrunning dickface, who deserves to be hit in the face with a flying turd, and then set on fire. If that guy happens to read this, I'd like to take this opportunity to ask him to kindly go fuck himself.

But somewhere between that steaming pile of terminal douchebaggery, and "EVERYTHING'S FINE!!!" lies The Truth.

And I'd like to suggest that those of you who seem to think it's one or the other, that you're "either for us or against us", go fuck yourselves too.

If you're incapable of or unwilling to acknowledge the legitimacy of anything in between, then you're just as simple-minded and enslaved by your own emotions as this here flaming cockbag.

This is not a contest. Sorry to break it to ya, but you're not getting a Super Bowl ring for insisting that things are what all current evidence indicates that they aren't.

It's called nuance. Might want to look it up sometime. And while you're at it, you might want to pay a little closer attention to what you're reading. Or you might not. Either way is just fine with me.

It's not "flip-flopping" to say that they're playing great when they're playing great, and to say that they're playing like shit when they're playing like shit.

Hey, if it makes you feel better to remain steadfast in your unfettered optimism despite mounting evidence to the contrary, then more power to ya. Whatever gets you through the night.

Meantime, hey, you're a "real fan" and the rest of us aren't. There. Feel better now?