Getting to Know: YOU!!

1. What is your favorite New Orleans Saints related song? When the saints go marching in (louis Armstrong version)

2. What is your pre-game routine? Put on whatever colors we are wearing for that game, get the pail of beer on ice and turn off the phone.

3. Do you have any lucky charms, jerseys, underwear etc. or quirky rituals that you must do in order for the Saints to win (even if they never actually work)? Always the pail of beer, proper colors, Saints bottle sleeve on every beer. Girlfriend sporting the Brees jersey and cheering everytime a point is scored.

4. On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being “I watch the game sometimes” and 10 being “my wife/girlfriend stays in a motel when we lose”, how serious a Saints fan are you? Have to rank a 10, i am known to pace and talk to the TV when things arent going right among other things…
5. Do you have a fleur-de-lis tattoo? Do you have a Saints related tattoo? Are you seriously considering getting a Saints related tattoo? Do you have the entire Dome Patrol on your back in ink? Nothing yet, but have toyed with it. The missus is incorporating a fleur de lis in her next tattoo.

6. Do you miss Mrs. Frumplesworth? Dont have enough experience with her to miss her…but sure.

Whoohoo! Thanks! Yeah, I noticed I just slipped in there before Stu the other day. I was typing fast because I could feel his presence and sensed his finger poised over the “POST” button. :-)

1. Favorite Saints song: Also “When the Saints Go Marching In” with Pops Armstrong singing. I love jazz both as a listener and as a guitarist who plays local gigs whenever I can get them. Anything by Mr. Armstrong is a favorite song. That’s why I picked Satchmo26 as an ID. When I think of New Orleans, I think of Louis Armstrong and the Saints. “Satchmo” is for Pops and the “26” part is the jersey number of my favorite Saint.

2. Pre-game ritual? None really. I sometimes go to a local sports bar or, since getting NFL Sunday Ticket (They usually don’t broadcast Saints games in New Mexico), I too turn off the phone and just listen to the sports talking heads go on about who they think will get wins that day. I know, that’s pretty boring.

3. No rituals. Maybe I should get some to help the team.

4. 10. My girlfriend can be a good football companion. She would tell you that I’m much more fun to be around after a Saints win as opposed to a loss. I too sometimes yell obscenities at the TV whenever things aren’t going well.

5. No tats, I’m sorry to say.

6. Mrs. Frumplesworth reminds me of the mean librarian I had to deal with in high school. Other than that, she’s good for a laugh. A prettier young woman blowing loving kisses might be preferred. :-)

Pretty good timing for my first post, I guess. This is a great blog, very well maintained and professional; I’m as big a Colts fan as I am a Saints fan, but those guys at Stampede Blue really antagonize the hell out of anybody they can, so I’m going with y’all.

1. Oh, definitely Sidney Bechet’s version of “When the Saints Go Marching In.” Bechet played clarinet and soprano sax with Armstrong, and his solos get really heroic in the recording.

2. There’s a Charles Mingus song called “Cumbia Jazz Fusion,” which is, like a lot of overblown jazz songs, about half an hour long, and toward the end of it there’s this one section where Charles Mingus just goes a little nuts. Out of nowhere he shouts, “Now who said mama little baby like short’nin bread? And who said mama little baby like short’nin bread? That’s some lie the American WHITE man done up and said! Mama little baby likes truffles! And mama little baby likes caviar! And mama little baby likes diamond mines, [someone shouts, “what?!”] African diamond mines!” Nothing about it makes sense, but it goes on with bass hits and off-beat claps, and it turns out that it makes a great circle chant. So yeah, that’s a long way of saying what I do before a Saints game—the more folks involved, the better.

3. I’ve got an old-timey Saints mug I inherited from my dad, which I drink at any football game I care about. It’s the reason, by the way, that the Pats lost the Superbowl.

4. Oh, 7 or so—I grew up watching the Saints lose, so I’m not as torn up about it as I am when the Colts blow it (2007’s San Diego games come to mind). Carney missing the extra kick after the River City Relay nearly made me throw a brick through the TV, though. Also, if shouting at the TV and referring to the team as “us” and “we” isn’t normal for you guys, then I guess I’m a 10.

5. My brother says that there are two types of people in the world: acceptable people and people with tattoos. So no, I can’t say I’ve got any.

6. No comment.

1 Song: Second Line (doot doot doot, doot do doot) I associate that with the Saints having just scored.
2-3 Pre game routine/ritual: At home, if the game is not on TV, I go to NFL.com and put on the game play by play. Used to listen to the local radio broadcast (Field Pass)there until they started charging for it. Hey, I’m saving my money for the next trip to the Superdome! Lots of swearing if we lose, lots of cheering if we win. Always wear a Saints Tshirt (it’s GAME DAY!) If I get to go to a game, I put on my black Archie jersey and we walk up Poydras and see the Saints superhero crew (guys in helmets, tights, capes, fleur de lis hats on their crotches and Elvis shades, signing autographs and having their pictures taken). We get our refreshments and find our seats and I sit and look at the Dome ceiling like a 7 year old, and then all around me, just taking it in. I love that place.
4 How serious a fan? I’ll say 9. Wife doesn’t have to go to a motel if the Saints lose, but she sure has to listen and sympathize while I complain and overanalyze. She’s a fan too, her thing is yelling at the defense during a play, “GET HIM!” Kinda stupid but she’s got me saying it now.
5 No tats, I promised my mother years ago.
6 Mrs F is hot.

1. U2/Green Day – The Saints are Coming (live version)
2. Nothing
3. none
4. 10
5. ridiculous question. no.
6. no