Who is it that is unwise enough to assert that they will be able to defeat the New Orleans franchise of the National Football league?

Or,
Who dat say they gonna beat them Saints?

Say what you will about bread and circuses, of the massive injustice of rehabbing the Superdome while entire neighborhoods continue to rot. All of that is true. But the fact of the matter is that losing the Saints would have been even more devastating. And this yesterday  from a New Orleans correspondent:

[We] spent a good part of [Sunday] night in a downtown parking lot setting up tents, slow cooking brisket, etc - [X. and Y.] are leaving work early so they have plenty of time to coat themselves (and me) in gold body paint. [N.] has called me three times this morning trying to figure out how to get all of his meat downtown and still ride his bike so he can get really drunk.

Read that last sentence again -- this is a professional adult with college-age kids who is spending the bulk of a weekday morning figuring out how to feed all of his people, get drunk, and not kill anyone on the way home. Remind me again why there is not a Nobel Prize for tailgating? This is the mixture of generosity and profligacy that makes New Orleans New Orleans. And one of the folks mentioned above was working at Charity for days after the storm. Without the Saints, no gold body paint. With the Saints, it will be harder for the rest of the country to forget about New Orleans. I am not sure when the Super Bowl will return to New Orleans, but just now, the Saints have a better record than the last four Super Bowl teams, so perhaps an NFC championship game will do in the meantime.  

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[Dave Cisar]

Football is a social event for most a passion for some. It is a better vice than most, me Im addicted to coaching youth football and the Single Wing Offense. It could be worse.