New Orleans Saints win spells doom for fan's flat-screen HD television - ESPN
NEW ORLEANS -- A Louisiana man who bet against the New Orleans Saints has lost his 60-inch high-definition, flat-screen TV to a backyard firing squad, but he also became an Internet star.
Wayne A. Spring told his friends that if New Orleans beat the Washington Redskins on Sunday, anyone who wanted could come to his house and shoot his television.
"I was a Saints fan, but used to be they never could win and I admit I was a fair-weather fan," Spring said on Thursday. "And there was all that 'Who-Datting' going on, online, so I just decided to go against the grain."
Things were looking good until the Saints tied the game and sent it into overtime.
Spring, a nurse who owns a medical staffing company, said as soon as the undefeated Saints kicked the winning field goal, his phone started ringing.
About a dozen Saints fans, toting firearms and a case of beer, showed up at his home in Albany, some 50 miles northwest of New Orleans, and shot up his TV in the back yard.
Spring put the video on YouTube and says it has had over 145,000 hits in three days.
OMFG! This redneck insanity is actually being reported by the Associated Press and ESPN! I've just lost all respect for both. Come on, man!
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Oh Man!! Come on!!
This is the best part:
“I was amazed,” Spring said. “I’ve put stuff on YouTube before.”
About three years ago, he said, he posted a video of a jet engine on a bicycle, “and it took two years to get 80,000 hits on that one.”
After the barrage of gunshots, Spring joked, “I ain’t checked on my neighbors. I guess they’re all right, but I ain’t seen them lately either.”
A jet engine on a bicycle!? LMAO! How could this guy even get a jet engine? ROFL!
"I said this early on that this was a good football team, they just maybe had to have a stick put in certain parts of their body to play a little harder in certain places to where we’re able to take interceptions and score touchdowns."--Gregg Williams
by David "Satch" Kelly on Dec 10, 2009 4:50 PM CST reply actions
It made the FRONT PAGE of ESPN!
15 seconds of fame. I guess it’s true…
"They're ready to be like 'Same Old Saints'" - Roman Harper, on each of the New Orleans Saints vanquished foes of 2009
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by Dave Cariello on Dec 10, 2009 5:33 PM CST up reply actions
Wouldn't be surprised...
if some cable network started a reality show with these guys shooting up something different each week. If that happens, consider it a sign of the apocalypse and kiss your ass goodbye.
"I said this early on that this was a good football team, they just maybe had to have a stick put in certain parts of their body to play a little harder in certain places to where we’re able to take interceptions and score touchdowns."--Gregg Williams
by David "Satch" Kelly on Dec 10, 2009 5:37 PM CST reply actions
The guy getting out of the truck carrying the beer also had a cigarette in his mouth.
Alcohol, tobacco, and firearms. Isn’t there a federal agency to keep these guys in check???
Fat, dumb, and happy. Hell, two out of three ain't bad!
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If we're not suppose to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
by Just 'Nother Day on Dec 10, 2009 6:18 PM CST reply actions
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