My hat has a bottle opener on it in section 140

by ImaMoose on Oct 20, 2009 9:12 AM CDT Comment 15 comments

a couple of you noticed my awesome keystone light hat equipped with a handy bottle opener.

great for when you are in New Orleans and your team is being shown that their back up safety is not good. Sitting in the second row, i got a pretty good Black and Gold view of things that were going on. Sitting to my right were a gaggle of giants fans from new jersey and alabama of all places. through a certain LSU centers father they got their tix. Me? well lets just say i know a certain blogger with some sweet seats.

so, the game begins and the giants were trailing from the coin toss. They called tails, it was heads. The saints knew exactly what they were doing by taking the ball first. A quick march down the field and they never looked back.

Watching this game was kind of like watching your son step up to the plate in little league baseball, when you know he would rather be home playing with his transformers and comic books than doing anything athletic. And heres the pitch... and an awkward swing and miss, strike three! GAME OVER! 48-27. ugh.

I flew down here just because my friend has tickets, and the giants(the team i like) were playing. Then it was a battle of undefeateds. I was thinking, wow this should be a good game... and it was, just not for the giants or their fans.

The saints put on an offensive clinic against what people call a great defense. Good job saints. Very good job.

The giants injuries to key players on defense were blatently obvious as back up CC Brown looked like you or me trying to cover a professional. I watched this guy all preseason and he was awful at covering other teams 3rd team units. What makes people thing he will stop the leagues #1 passing unit? The defensive line somehow got ZERO pressure on drew all game, then chase blackburn got a sack on the back up qb in the waning minutes of the 4th Q.

Boley and the DTs out was okay against the bottom barrel teams, but this was a welcome wake up call. At least a good team beat the giants and not lets say... the KC Chumps, or Chokeland Raiders.

Giant fans are holding onto historical trends which result in Superbowl W's(something the saints lack). 5-0 starts mean superbowl appearances, blah blah blah... Its nice being 5-0 isnt it? the giants WERE 5-0, so dont hoist that lombardi trophy just yet saints fains. As good as you are just remember your team hasnt really sustained a plethora of injuries...

speaking of injuries, those giants fans i was speaking of earlier wouldnt shut up about how shockey would get hurt, blah blah blah, have fun... well shockey got hurt before the playoffs when the giants won the superbowl, so maybe that would be a good thing for them... either way, enjoy the unbeaten streak while you have it. If the giants collapse from 5-0 then ill start thinking about jumping from the ledge, but for now sitting 5-1 ontop of the NFC east, where the eagles lost to the FREAKIN RAIDERS?! i think there might be a giants saints rematch this winter...

This FanPost was written by a reader and member of Canal Street Chronicles. It does not necessarily reflect the views of CSC and its staff or editors.

0 recs | Comment 15 comments |

Story-email Email Printer Print

Comments

For the Saints, 5-0 means...

nothing much at all. In 1991, we went 7-0 to open the season, and then we were one and done in the playoffs, to Atlanta, of all teams. Then in 1993 we started 5-0 and hit the bye week, and went 3-8 the rest of the way.

So we haven’t got any room to be cocky. Even having the best freaking team in the entire NFL, maybe the best offensive unit of all time, is no reason to get carried away. Just stay calm, WhoDats.

Super Bowl 44: "If you play in this league and it's not your goal, there's something wrong with you." -- Marques Colston

by MtnExile on Oct 20, 2009 9:54 AM CDT reply actions 1 recs

Word

"Brees will kill you, but he lets you decide how fast he tightens the garrote." -Chris Brown

by FuSoYa on Oct 20, 2009 11:43 AM CDT up reply actions

um, what happened to all that kool aid you were pushin'?

"In the end, the bread was in the pudding." -- Bobby McCray

by HansDat on Oct 20, 2009 7:52 PM CDT up reply actions

it wasn't poisoned

i understand what he’s saying. Don’t get cocky. I’ve only been cocky 1 time playing sports and my team got beat bad! And it was the worst team. So, I never have been cocky since. Confident-extremely. I think he’s saying that it’s ok to be confident but not cocky where games are over before they begin. Also, there’s alot of games left.

Superbowl bound!!!...I know! do you?! Go Saints!!

by skinnykinney on Oct 20, 2009 10:14 PM CDT up reply actions

Agreed. Ask any avid Saints fan five games into 1993, and they would have told you that Jim Finks letting Bobby Hebert walk was just what the doctor ordered. That Wade Wilson’s leadership and post-season experience was the answer to all our offensive woes. At that very moment, it would have been pretty hard to argue that, based on the way the team was playing. Then came Rod Woodson and Barry Foster at Three Rivers and the bottom dropped out.

"Paralyze resistance with persistence" -Woody Hayes

by coldpizza on Oct 21, 2009 1:14 AM CDT up reply actions

ok, Kautious KoolAid-ism

"In the end, the bread was in the pudding." -- Bobby McCray

by HansDat on Oct 21, 2009 7:46 PM CDT up reply actions

I here ya

But a conservative Jim Mora led team, was a far different era, we might have had the best record at 5-0 or 7-0 but we weren’t the best team, Cowboys,Niners,Vikings, Eagles were all better teams in the end. And the Falcon team caught fire at the right time and their WR’s torched our weak secondary. But I’m w/ya bro I still have a streak of guarded optimism, having been @ those games and how I felt walking out the Dome, didn’t even want to watch the play-offs or SB, wanted to go to Venice or Buras and fish and stare @ the water…………

You think you know, and you don't know, and you never, ever will.-Jim Mora Sr.

by metryman on Oct 21, 2009 5:29 PM CDT up reply actions

I kinda feel your pain.

It nothing worst going to away game and have your team lose bad. A couple of years ago I went to the Saints game in Tampa. I had my new Saint’s black jersey and black saints hat. I was sitting up in the nosebleed section watching the saints get their butts kicked by Tampa. It was so hot, I think it was like a 115 on the field. I was drenched from sweat just watching the guys play. I can’t imagine how they felt. The Tampa fans are pretty nice, so we didn’t get harassed too much. On the way back to my brother’s house, we ran into a storm. Lightning struck a pole top transformer outside his house and caused a surge that took out most of his electronics. Just say his wife banned me from coming to see a Saints game in Tampa ever again.

by rustdog74 on Oct 20, 2009 9:55 AM CDT reply actions

karma

remember the katrina Home game at giants stadium… i was at that game where the giants recovered an opening kickoff fumble to basically put the game away on the first play of the game.

oh well, the saints fans that were there for that game probably had a worse feeling with a saints loss and all that was going on back home.
It didnt help that aaron brooks was your qb at that time… oh my how things have changed.

by ImaMoose on Oct 20, 2009 10:17 AM CDT reply actions