Who Dat Say Dey Gonna Beat Dem Saints?

[waiting for hope]

Holy shit - they are 11-0 and looks like there is no stopping them. My dear sweet hubby (born and raised in New Orleans) has been routing for them for 42 years and he now has a reason (and me too!) to celebrate and feel vindicated.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUk5-td0AkA

GEAUX SAINTS!!! :bounce: :woohoo:

[BlooInBloo]

1. Not me; not after what I just watched...

It was like a boxing match, where you're just hoping the ref would step in and call it off.

[xultar]

2. Bon Ton Roule

[waiting for hope]

3. Yes'Mam!

New Orleans need this and it's a great boon to the city ... they have been playing so well. :)

[waiting for hope]

4. Kick

[flvegan]

5. This lifetime Pats fan congratulates your team on a well deserved win.

They played extremely well this evening, as they seem to have been doing all damn season. Dammit.

[waiting for hope]

6. Thank you sir - very Gracious of you ....

:toast:

[Arkana]

59. What he said.

Brees made us look silly in every sense of the word.

[waiting for hope]

62. Thank you too ..

:toast:

[jobycom]

7. Yeah, if you grew up there, you can't even explain what this means.

I have friends who don't care one bit about football who are in tears right now. That city, what it's been through since before Katrina even, and how much this team mirrors the city... I can't explain it. Maybe your hubby can. I can't stop smiling. :)

[waiting for hope]

9. I can't stop smiling either ...

Lived there for almost 14 years and I know exactly what this team means to the people of New Orleans and the whole of Louisiana... and they beat the Patriots in the DOME. :)

[jobycom]

13. Did you see Steve Young trying to explain how great Brees's performance was?

Young is one of the smartest and best QBs ever, to start with. He got tongue tied. He started gushing about it, calling it artistry and comparing Brees to Michaelangelo, and said you should TIVO it and play it back whenever you see bad quarterbacking. He could barely contain himself, and finally just ran out of steam when he started repeating himself.

What a night. :)

[waiting for hope]

17. No I didn't see that ...

I'm sure my husband did .. he's been glued to the set since an hour before the game. It was about two weeks ago that finally the sports announcers were giving the Saints praise for what they had accomplished .. it's been painful for us to hear over the years the constant dismissal by those in the sports arena.

[dmr]

47. I think I can understand what it means to you

The Detroit Tigers!

The 1967 pennant race (oh, we were so close), and then winning the World Series in 1968 over St. Louis.

I'm happy the Saints are boosting the morale in New Orleans. You folks deserve the joyful high a winning team can give.

It is a jumping out of your skin, indescribably, wonderful feeling!

http://detroit.tigers.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20050216&content_id=944026&vkey=news_det&fext=.jsp&c_id=det

02/17/05 8:00 AM ET
Horton reflects on Detroit's past
Former Tigers outfielder remembers riots of 1967

By Jason Beck / MLB.com

Willie Horton doesn't regret the emotions that caused him to drive straight into the middle of the Detroit riots of 1967. Horton regrets the short memories that have forgotten what the riots meant.

- snip -

The Tigers played a doubleheader against the Yankees later that day, and fans and players alike could see smoke rising into the sky from beyond right field. A news blackout was in effect, but players and club officials soon learned what was going on.

"To this day, the only thing I remember is people telling us to go straight home," Horton said. "And then the next thing I know, I still have my uniform and I was out in the middle of the riots."

He was out there pleading with people to stop the looting and fires and go home. Some people listened, but not enough. Before it was over, 43 people died, more than 1,000 were injured, and over 4,000 were arrested.

Those facts, along with the sights -- fires lighting up the Detroit sky, paratroopers patrolling the city, looters breaking windows and making off with whatever they could find, and later residents moving out to the surburbs -- are what most remember from the riots. Horton wants people to remember more, like the festering issues that led to that sort of anger, and the sense of loss that led the city to heal.

"Any time a city breaks out in something like that, it's how you perceive it," Horton said. "A lot of people on the outside don't know what a city is going through. It's the people internal who know what's really going on. ...

"It started years ago. It just triggered off that night at the blind pig. Many years ago, it wasn't anything hidden. just misused black people and it just pushed itself on people. You would just stand on the corner and they'd tell you to get off the corner, and you'd better be off that corner by the time they came around again."

What was seen as a low point in the city's image, Horton said, also ended up being a turning point on the issue of race in the city, a stark sign that the situation had to change. The Tigers played a small role: With their run to a world championship in 1968, they gave Detroiters of all ages and races a common diversion helped keep the peace downtown. Horton was one of three African-American players on that team. The situation was immortalized two years ago by sportscaster and Detroit native Armen Keteyian in the HBO documentary "A City on Fire".

- snip -

"Everything happens for a purpose," Horton said. "Too many people in this world who have everything forget how to be humble. And you have to be humble to remember what life is about, to appreciate life. And I thank God for the people who were around me, who moved me. I'm very fortunate each one of my kids taught me something. That's the way my life has been, and that's what God wants me to do."

- more at link -

SOCK IT TO 'EM, TIGERS!

[SpiralHawk]

55. "They did a heckuva job. Dammit." - xCommander aWol Bush (R)

[Behind the Aegis]

8. Great for them! And, hopefully, great for our city!

:woohoo:

[waiting for hope]

10. Geaux Saints!

Yeah, you're right! :woohoo:

[misanthrope]

11. Yep, it's great to see!...

...Nothing like seeing a long-suffering fan base reap rewards like this.

Brees is playing at an astounding level this year and his "will to win" is lifting this team as a whole. It's going to be mighty difficult to keep this up over the long haul (the Super Bowl is still two months away) but here's to hoping they do it. Too bad the game is in Miami this year because it would be beyond belief were they to cap off a magical season with a championship win in the Superdome.

[waiting for hope]

15. OMG - a Super Bowl game at the Dome

would have been like manna ... and Drew Brees is a true athlete.

[ShortnFiery]

12. "Laissez Les Bon Temps Roulez"

:woohoo:

[old mark]

14. Nobody I have seen this year - Saints and whoever else in the Super Bowl!

It's a long way from the bag over the head days...congratulations!

mark
You beat my Eagles!

[waiting for hope]

16. You remember the bags?

My husband had one ...

Not him but you get the drift ..



Those were heady days .. and the fans stuck it out. My brother lives in Philadelphia, so my deepest condolences :hug:

[juajen]

18. We do love our marriage with the Saints. Good or bad, rich or poor,

winners or losers, they are ours. But, OMG, ain't it fun to be winning! (I know "ain't" is in there, as I did it on purpose.) Now, lift your champagne glasses, or beer, you know, whatever.

GEAUX SAINTS!!!!

[waiting for hope]

21. Amen and ain't is totally

appropriate!

I see many a crawfish boil on the horizon ..

[ShortnFiery]

19. Hey, mine too!

My dear sweet hubby was also born and raised in New Orleans. Even graduated from UNO. He's also thrilled that The Saints are 11-0.

Congrats from a midwestern girl and Minnesota Vikings Fan. :silly:

[waiting for hope]

23. Why thank you M'am!

I am a reformed Redskins fan and from Northern VA - my family has had season tickets since they started in 1937 .. after living in NOLA for a while, I formed a fascination with the Saints .. it's really quite a phenomenon! Ask your hubby if he knows where he got his shoes .. ;)

[ShortnFiery]

25. OK, I will.

"Ask your hubby if he knows where he got his shoes ..." :blush: I'm sure the foregoing has some meaning of which midwestern folk are not privy to.

Have a good evening. :hi:

p.s. I can't stand the Redskins but continue to cheer for MY Vikings in absentia.

[waiting for hope]

27. As you should .. I still have a silent

rah rah for the Skins but it's been really hard to this year .. and the shoe thing is from the French Quarter ..

Have a wonderful evening too! :hi:

[Feron]

20. I already broke out my Saints snowing in hell cup.

It has a cartoon demon in a Saints uniform reading a newspaper that says "Unexpected freeze Saints win Superbowl".

I caught it off a float back in the late 90s and I've been saving it for the occasion that the Saints do make it to the Superbowl. I really hope that I get to use it this year!!

[waiting for hope]

24. Oh I hope so too!

I'd start wearing the hat now - you know, get the good gris gris out!

[givemebackmycountry]

22. Simple Question...

Where is Will Pitt?

The Saints beat that ass tonight.
New England had nothing.

WHO DAT?

My Broncos beat them this year, only it took OT to do it.
This game was over before the kickoff.
I am happy for the Saints.

Next up, the Skins.

[waiting for hope]

26. There is going to be some tention with that game ...

My Dad is still a lifetime Redskins fan .. while he loves my husband dearly, there will be some tense moments if the Saints win (and I think they will, the Skins have been playing abysmally).

[FlyingTiger]

28. I'm a Skins lifer too...

...and I think it'll be hard to get upset next week. Our season's over - we're just praying to God that our terrible, terrible owner has been embarrassed enough by the fans that he'll finally cede football decisions to someone competent - and we're running into a freaking juggernaut. I just wanna see our young guys make some plays and keep improving for the future.

[waiting for hope]

31. I hope that they can rebuild -

We used to have great seats at RFK - when they built the new stadium, all the seat owners on this row (all of them, including my Dad, grew up in DC and had the season tickets in '37 at Griffith Stadium) requested that they stay together .. they didn't honor that request (one of my Dad's childhood friends on that row was Plato Cacheris) and had even put my handicapped Dad in the nose bleeds .. he still has the tickets but sells them every year to one of my brother's friends that still lives in the DC area. My Dad was really disappointed - not to say it was Snyder's doing which I know it wasn't, but it almost seems like after Jack Kent Cooke died, a little of the former magic was lost. I still pull for the Skins when they play Dallas and still have never like the Cowboys .. ;-)

[Alamuti Lotus]

29. saw most of the game -- defense held tight, offense really hussled

that's what I like to see in sports. Went out and crushed one of the best teams of the last decade, and earned every second of it.

[waiting for hope]

46. Yes - they did earn it. And for once with the Saints,

the reffing was decent too .. so many times (and he may be a bit biased .. ;) ) my husband is screaming at the refs for some stupid call. He's still smiling.. :)

[burning rain]

30. Before this year, pretty much everyone--& they were right.

So it's good to see them doing so well. New Orleans is overdue. Love that city.

[waiting for hope]

33. My hubby just said that Steve Young

had said that New Orleans is going to shake up the league and it needed to be - or something like that .. and yes, New Orleans is overdue - happy to see the attention they are getting, good for the city too.

[saltpoint]

32. Drew and the crew are winners.

[waiting for hope]

34. Aww - you made it rhyme ..

Thanks OC .. I mean SP... :hug:

[saltpoint]

36. waiting for hope, you are hanging out with a fine football team.

It looks real good for the Saints this time, and we're only weeks away from that big game I think they deserve to be in.

I'll be rooting for Drew, a Purdue favorite from a few years ago, and for your hometeam to kick some serious butt in the playoffs.

[waiting for hope]

38. Why thank you -

It's been a long time coming and like misanthrope said, shame the Super Bowl is in Miami this year ... but I think they can bring a little Les Bon Ton Roule to Gator town!

[saltpoint]

39. And why not. A good mix is a great thing down in Miami.

Go, Saints.

[waiting for hope]

35. Wow - who on earth would unrec this?

[saltpoint]

37. Had to be a Viking fan.

[waiting for hope]

40. They don't even play each other ...

Whatever .. I just thought that it was fantastic news for New Orleans.

[saltpoint]

41. They might find themselves adversaries in the playoffs, though, maybe?

That would be a barnburner of a ballgame.

[waiting for hope]

45. Yes it would ...

:)

[Tafiti]

49. If they don't meet in the NFC Championship game,

I'll be really disappointed.

[waiting for hope]

50. Indianapolis would be a good match up too.

[Telly Savalas]

58. As a Chiefs fan and hence a neutral observer, that's what I'd like to see

Saints-Vikings in the NFC Championship and Saints-Colts in the Super Bowl.

Having suffered through a lot of bad football watching the Chiefs this year, I think I've earned the right to see those two match-ups.

[waiting for hope]

60. I hope to see it too - the Saints are

really playing a banner year. I am still in awe on how well they executed everything last night.

[rufus dog]

42. Great Win.....but

I hope they lose a game in December. Take the pressure off of being perfect then they can focus on winning three straight for the championship.

[waiting for hope]

48. I hope they can go the whole season

undefeated ... they earned it, especially after Katrina when they couldn't play at the SuperDome for over an entire season.

[Harry Monroe]

43. I'm also a lifelong Saints fan!! Born and raised in NOLA!!

And have been waiting 42 years for this!! Been with them since the first season when I was a little tot at 5 years old!! Bless you boys!!

[waiting for hope]

44. Awesome!

And it's been a bittersweet wait too .. I was so happy to finally hear the sports announcers give them credit for the talent and hard work they have displayed. :hi:

[Onceuponalife]

51. The Saints are a great story this year

I hope they run the table and go all the way. Congrats!

"Aints" no more!

[waiting for hope]

52. I haven't heard Aints in a while ...

and yes - I don't think they will be called that again .. :)

[bvar22]

53. Born in New Orleans (Baptist Hospital).

Lived there for 40+ years.
Attended the very first Saints game in Tulane Stadium, and held seasons tickets on the 45 yard line (10 rows up) in the Superdome for many, many years (most of them bad).

They made it look easy last night.

Go Saints.

[waiting for hope]

61. My husband was born at Mercy Baptist too -

His mom was a nurse there prior to having six boys - he went to St. Angela, Brother Martin and De La Salle. My father-in-law was a New Orleans/Baton Rouge River Boat Pilot - :D .. perhaps that was the only way to send six boys through Catholic School from Kindergarten to 12th grade! They use to go to Tulane to see the Saints too - he is still on cload nine today and a lot of his co-workers were extremely happy for him. And yes, they did make it look easy. :)

:hi: .. New Orleans never does leave you, does it?

[bvar22]

67. Catholic School dominate in New Orleans....

..or at least they did in the 50s.
St Agnes and Jesuit High School (your husband's arch rival) for me.

And YES, New Orleans never leaves you,
though it will never be the same after Katrina.
I still mourn for New Orleans.

[waiting for hope]

68. They still did - at least up until Katrina.

Now they are flooding the area with Charter Schools ... like that is going to change anything. My husband's family is so entrenched in the Catholic system (one Aunt is a teacher, all of my kid's cousins attend) that it would have been treason if we did the public school route when we lived there. We moved late 2002 to North Carolina, my oldest was only 15 months old at the time. We had an opportunity to move closer to my Mom and Dad and into an area where we could afford to buy a house.

I still think time to time about moving back .. we miss the food more than anything and the good friendships we had. Community Coffee is shipped here to NC .. I think I had serious jonesing the first few months without the CC .. I make red beans and rice when I have the Sunday afternoon to do it .. no, it never does leave and I am a better person for the 13 and some years I lived there - and I mourn too. :hug:

[av8rdave]

54. I'm a Cowboys fan, but....

If the 'Boys aren't gonna do it for the NFC (anyone want to guess the odds on THAT this year?), then I'll be cheering the Saints.

What a performance last night. A well deserved and important win. Congrats!

[waiting for hope]

63. Thanks! Hopefully they will

be picking up some new fans ... this has been so great for the city - I was reading some of the local blogs last night and Wow - there is a feeling of "pinch me" .. I couldn't be be happier for them.

[Dinger]

56. Oh Yes!

From a Packers fan.

[waiting for hope]

65. My hubby and I thank you!

:hi:

[nickinSTL]

57. great for NO

I have to say, as a Bears fan, whose team has pretty much blown any chance at the postseason...

there are teams I wouldn't want to see in the SB - NO isn't one of them. Saints fans have been waiting a long time for a season like this.

[waiting for hope]

64. Seems like they have been waiting for ever!

:toast:

[madinmaryland]

66. The Redskins!

:hide:

[waiting for hope]

69. They came close - I have to congratulate them ...

they played well.

[cpt.quiver]

70. The little market team...

From New Orleans...Week 14, Dallas got it done...Made my Saints, 13 and 1...But the Panthers chipped in, With a Vikings Rout....One more win Boys, Homefield throughout...We might've lost that game....But you can't keep us down...The Black and Gold, Gonna be Miami Bound.....WhoDat!!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQuoigYuKSU

[El Supremo]

71. Welcome to DU, Captain and your Who Dats!

That was about as unprofessional as could be.

I love it!

:yourock: