Canal Street Chronicles' Reaches One Year Anniversary

This site has really amped up my enjoyment of all things Saints. I think back to my prior days of lurking in the nola.com forum and shudder.

This is the best Saints site out there bar none. Keep up the great work.

Happy Blogger’day to Youz!
Happy Blogger’day to YOUZ!
Happy Blogger’daaaaaay
dear Canal Street Chroniclllllles!
HAPPY
BLOGGER
’DAY
TOOOOOO
YOOOOOOOOUZ!
—and many mooooore!

It’s amazing how far this site came in a few short weeks under your stewardship, much less the entire year. I think it’s a testament to the community you’ve built that a Saints-loathing Falcons fan like myself makes frequent stops over here to see what’s going on. Hell of a job, and here’s to many more successful years ahead.

I don’t know how you have managed to do such a great job in getting this site up and going, but I’m really happy you did. I have to move away from Louisiana soon and it will be nice to know that I can still keep in touch with the Saints through this website. Thank you.

By the time I joined up on April 28th, Saintsational Dave had CSC running along very smoothly, new content coming all the time. Dave kept asking how to make things better and I said don’t change it, it’s fine. But the changes have all been for the good, and the content kept coming even through hurricanes and Dave’s trips back home. That’s the best part, clicking on your CSC link and waiting to see what’s new at the top of the page.

Unlike the Beatles or ’67 Mustangs, the Saints are a living, changing entity and that makes them perfect for this format. If you love the Saints, this is the place to be. Good job, Dave. And thank you.

I agree with Stu, Saintsational has put together THE best place for Saints fans to be other than the Superdome. I don’t remember how I initially found this place (probably a "Saints’ Google search), but I’m glad I did. Before I found Da Chronic, I would peruse mostly si.com and nola.com every day to find out the latest Saints news. This place is much better because I can post my own thoughts (as worthless as they may be) and ask questions that I should KNOW the answer to because there are BIG differences between my perceptions and reality:

http://www.canalstreetchronicles.com/2009/4/7/826065/jeff-duncan-answered-my-roster

I’d rather have Stujo “school” me than Jeff Duncan any day of the week. :-)

+"loyal fan" +"life of futility" +"New Orleans"

Da Chronic was the second hit after Ray Nagin’s blog.

Great place to cheer for the Saints and laugh at ourselves for doing so.

Awesome job. This is the first sports related thing I look at everyday!!! When he was still alive, my grandfather would send me an envelope every week stuffed full of clippings about the Saints from the Times Pic. That was almost 15 years ago and I’ve never gotten close to that kind of information until this blog!

Thanks!!!!

…is the second thing I do when I get up (You don’t want to know what comes first). However, I’m thinking of dropping that habit cause it got me late to work a couple of time!

I’ve been lurking since March 2008 and finally signed in last summer when I convinced myself that my academic english would be good enough to make myself understood. And thanks to you guys I’m learning new words such as GAAAAAAA!, HA!, PayLoo and Lito Sheppard. Heck, I’m even going to get to see Archie Manning on tape because I joined this community.

So cheers to you Dave for providing a blog that covers everything I need to know 1384 miles away from Nolins.

blog especially for a Saints fan such as myself stuck in a city outside LA

Keep it up

As others have said, it’s one of the first thing I do in the morning. I feel out of touch until I read my morning Cronic. I’m sure in generations past, waiting on the morning paper to see who won the previous days games would compare to how out of touch we would be without Da Cronic. I used to go to about 5 different sites every morning looking for something Saint related, and secretly hoping not to find anything, because news of your team on a general sports website normally means bad news. But here we can hear everything, which is what I want. I want to know it all. If it is Saints related, tell me. I can’t get enough, but I get plenty here. I lurked for about 6 months, and I kick myself for not joining quicker but count me in for life. THIS is the best place on the web for everything Saints. Thanks Dave and great job.

and many more to come. I’m learning a lot from this site. It’s educational AND entertaining! Keep up the good work!

We all appreciate you and try to follow your lead and give to the site as much as we get…once we quit lurking and sign on.

I heard about this site from my Uncle Dick, who iives in Texas. He was born in NO (as was I), and I live in Louisville. We were emailing back and forth last summer about our daily Saints Training Camp internet readings. I told him about me going to nola.com, wwl-tv.com, 2theadvocate.com, espn.com, cbssportsline.com and then neworleanssaints.com. He told me what he visited (foxsports.com, nola.com, and then CANALSTREETCHRONICLES.COM was the big daddy mac smack of all). I visited a few days in a row and then joined so that I could post my notes on the Saints-Arizona preseason opener. I have been a much more active, involved and happier Saints fan ever since.

And as a quick aside, my freshman year in college (Fall 1989), my Dad would mail me the Sunday and Monday sports sections each week. It was always a great mail day when they would arrive – usually Friday or Saturday. In a move that I am sure freaked out my non-sports fan roommate, I would tape up the headline/main picture from the front sports page on the wall above my bed. Wins would go on the left side, and losses on the right. By the end of the season, the entire wall was covered, and since we went 9-7 it was a 50/50 split, almost. One of the best parts of that season was the fact that Ricky Jackson smashed his car into the back of a parked truck or car on the interstate, utterly destroying his jaw and cheekbones and DID NOT MISS A SINGLE GAME. The game after his wreck, they had a huge picture of him rushing the passer with his gargantuan gladiator adapted helmet with extra face bars and plexiglass visor – he looked sooo menacing. I loved that picture of him.

I stumbled upon CSC under the former regime and saw it sit stagnant. Then I found blog and gold and lurked but really enjoyed that site. I am thrilled with what CSC has become and I check it first thing when I turn on my computer (even before Burnt Orange Nation – but don’t tell them, they might get jealous). As a transplanted New Orleanian, it is great to finally have a conduit for my Saints based hysteria / dementia / manic depression. Thanks!

I first found this when it hit Y! sports. I saw it with new headings than what Y! had so i decided to take a quick browse. From there on out, i was in love. I loved that there were new stories every day that were relevant(even in the offseason) and people were as big a Saints fan as I am and even a few seemed a little obbsesive. It took me about 4 days of lurking, reading, and thinking…i love that or that’s not the greatest comment in the world… before i joined and I have visited everyday since then and have posted on most topics at least once. I love that I can give my insight with a community and friends that loves the same thing I love…Saints Football!!!! I think you do an awsome job Dave and I want to say thanks for joining the blogging revolution. I was like you, thinking why do these idiots need to blog about travels and things like that, untill I came across this sight. My world has been turned upside down since then!! Go Saints!!!