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I haven’t stopped smiling

i will never forget that sound, it is probably the most comforting thing ive ever heard.

Just hearing the wwl call after the game was insane, still makes me tear up to hear just the sheer and unbridled joy.

then BOOM! I’m a crying mess all over again. What an emotional high this is! And I’m so thankful to have everyone here to share it with. Saints fans are few and far between out here in the boonies. It’s great to have somewhere to go where everyone is feeling what I’m feeling. Dave, thanks for this little piece of internet heaven.

Nothing could take away from this great team and season, but a SB Win would improve it!

haven’t stopped talking about the calls in the game.

contas u have earn this thanks for no favre super bowl

I can only say that I have been a fan since 1985 since the first time I can remember being interested in football and watching Saints games was when I was 10. So that said, 24 years may not be the entire history of the New Orleans Saints, but those 24 years have been my history as a die hard fan and this 2009 season made all those sub par years well worth the wait. I can finally say my team has reached a Super Bowl. I said to myself that I would be happy with the Saints just making it to the big game, but now, I am actually lying to myself if I believe that. Winning it all is a must. I know that nobody remembers much about the Super Bowl loosing teams, and I don’t want the magic of this season to fall into that category. If the Saints loose, I fear it will. The rest of the nation needs to remember this season. The organization, city, and fans deserve that. I will always remember no matter what happens, like a lot of you, but it would be so great for everyone else in the nation to remember it as well. I am proud of this team for the great ride they have given us this year and will always be proud of this season even if they don’t win the big one, but I can’t get past the feeling that everyone (especially those outside the Who Dat nation) needs to remember this season and I believe that will only happen with a win in 44.

wow

Hardly a mention about the Saints.

If the 13-0 team shows up in two weeks…. well… I wouldnt bet against…

It seems to get the team ready to go.

Like my status says…

I’ve been using that same line all year. What a nice ride it’s been. And it’s not over yet.

I’m 48 years old and never thought i would see this in my lifetime
There was a time in my twenty’s i gave up on watching the saints and just watched nascar on sunday
But see how i played football growing up and love college football i migrated back and have been loyal since then and i have always seen other teams do this
But I never thought the Saints would
I had hope in the Mora years i hoped awhile in Ditka’s years I even hoped during Haselett
But since Sean Payton’s first year i had a real hope

begin to explain what I’m feeling right now. disappointed that i wasn’t at the game and able to celebrate with everyone in the dome and see it all in person; but absolutely overjoyed that THE SAINTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!! Think about that…just feel that…16 years of pain. 16 years of “there’s always next season” and finally THE SAINTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!! i have never been happier in my 16 years of life and there is only 1 way i could be happier and that’s if we hoist the vince lombardi on the night of february 7th 2010!!!! I burst into tears when Deuce handed the trophy to owner tom benson. i bawled like a 2 year old baby who had his pacifier taken away from him when sean payton and drew brees presented the george halas trophy to the city of new orleans. although im not a new orleanian(i’m from the small town of clinton mississippi), i cheer for this team at any chance i get and im so proud to be part of a fan base that is as loving as yall…i’m proud to wear my saints hat, my drew brees jersey, my deuce jersey, my bush jersey, my equipment jacket, my saints shoes, and even my saints wallet. im proud to be a saint.

When I got my first job at 16, they would always have the Saints game on the radio. Up until that point, I only remember my dad screaming at the TV in the 80’s and I never really understood football, or what all the fuss was about. At the end of the day, I’m envious of the people, like my pops, who have been with the Saints long before I was born because this momentous occasion must be 1000 times sweeter for them. Congrats guys.

I’ve been a Saints fan since 1989 and I have to say last night was truly the most excited I’ve ever been watching a sporting event. I think I might have blacked out after Hartley kicked that field goal. I definitely got light-headed. After I got home from my parents place, I had like four messages on my answering machine from friends congratulating me. It’s been an amazing year, probably the best it’ll ever be. Even if the Saints build upon this year and form a decade long dynasty nothing will compare to this season. It’s been a pleasure.

and Boy this is a great year! My plastic Bobby Hebert figures are doing a jig right now…..the Dome Patrol has been replaced by this team! Dempsey’s kick no longer matters as the best kick in Saints history!

I was always a Saints fan, but when I was young, you needed a backup team – I gave both the Bengals and Seahawks a turn. My Dad had season tickets and used to have to beg my brothers or I to go with him. Starting in 1986, I started going to every game so I got to enjoy some of the good times (early Mora years). Once I went to college, I didn’t really get to go to games any more, but still lived and died with the team. Being in the dome yesterday was perhaps the most incredible experience of my life. All that nervousness, passion and emotion … and then that incredible release when Hartley made that FG… words can’t describe it. I think the best part was watching the rest of the city, that has been through so much and means so much to me even though I don’t live there anymore, experience such joy. I want to win the superbowl REAL bad, but I don’t think even that will compare with Sunday night (but I’d sure like to find out).

AnticipaTION for the game to begin.
ExhilaraTION when it finally did.
FrustraTION that it wasn’t turning into the blow-out that I wished it to be.
ElaTION when the “kick of the franchise” (to be known as the kick seen throughout the WhoDat Nation!) went through, and finally
VindicaTION for the years and years of heartache and misery, embarrassment and depression that EVERY Saints fan, has at one time or another, felt.

Thank you Buddy D, Jim Finks, Sam Mills and all the other gone but not forgotten Saints players, personnel and fans, through the years. Thank you My Dave Dixon, the father of the Saints, for the vision and abilities you had in getting us a team, THIS team. Next to seeing my daughter being born, NOTHING in my 45 years, and I’d bet nothing in what years I have left, will EVER compare to January 24, 2010, or make me as happy as I am right now.

In no way am i meaning to knock the guy. It’s not like I made the team or anything. What an amazing wonderful incredible kick and ending to big time game. Maybe its just my age or sick sense of humor but looking at how young he is and how green he appears at times with the media and how big his eyes, got I couldn’t help but think one thing when he was hoisted on the shoulders of his team…“Its like we have our own RUDY”.

Saints fan as long as I can remember. When he made that kick…i just lost it. I cried uncontrolably and just kept screaming,“We goin’ to da Super Bowl”. I’m tearing up writing this now. I let out so much emotion, I can’t get myself excited about the colts just yet. Im going to enjoy this feeling for a couple days. Me and my lil boy hung our jerseys up in the hall last week after the cards game. We hung
‘em right back up after this one. I love being a Saints fan. Guess who’s the halftime show in Miami. The Who(Dat’s). Geaux Saints!!!!!!!

You guys deserve this one! You can throw the paper bags away forever. In fact, if Al keeps up his nonsense, we’ll start a recycling program and send them all to Oakland! lol! If we had a qb half as good as Drew Brees starting, we’d have made the playoffs. Granted, we’d have gotten shellacked with the lack of beef in the trenches we have, but we’d be there.

Wait, Al’d probably have screwed that up, too…

It’s all good, tho, ’cuz we Raider fans can be as delusional about next year as we are loyal! Enjoy this one, and Go Saints!

This will be the best SB matchup in a long time. All you have to do is make Peyton hold the ball for three seconds consistently, and the game’s yours! Pick sixes by Sharper all day long! Seriously, you know your hands are full, but I’m pulling for you! Forever in debt to you for saving the world from Brett Favre overdose…

I used to call the Saints the Ain’ts throughout the 90’s and early 2000’s, but when Drew Brees came to the team it all changed. Now I’m rooting for you guys to win it all. Thanks for beating the Vikings particularly Brett Favre. I hate the man with a passion. The Saints pleased all of Niners Nation with that beating that they gave him. Geaux Saints!!! I will see you guys on the streets of New Orleans during Mardi Gras hopefully after a Saints Super Bowl win. Who Dat!!!!!!!!!!!

My 19-month-old nephew, who I’ve tried to influence to be a Broncos fan mumbled Who Dat, Who Dat at dinner tonight. It’s a sign. He loves the Saints and for that matter, so do I! Drew Brees is too classy and Sean Payton is a great innovator. Darren Sharper will make a big play be sure of that. I love the Colts too, but good luck to the Saints!

 “I want one of those, brother”-Drew Brees, fist-bumping a Super Bowl ring during the post game. We got this.

Thank YOU for giving us such a wonderful place to hang out and just be Saints fans, whether we’re over-analyzing like CP, being a complete (and utterly wonderful) smart@$$ like JND, or a wallflower like myself, we are all welcome, and it feels like FAMILY here – y’know the one where you argue and yell, throw things at one another, but at the end of the day you’re still FAMILY, and you love each other.

Man, I’ve been following the Saints since I moved to Kenner in ‘69, then to Slidell in ’70, sat in the rain in Tulane Stadium, cursed the bagheads in the ’Dome…moved, first to Orlando, then to Baton Rouge, then BACK to Orlando, and finally here to NC….been married and divorced twice…lost some good people along the way – my mom, my father’s best friend…

None of it made me feel like I did when that ball sailed right down the center of those two uprights Sunday night. A combination of as happy as a person can possibly get and sad that so many that loved the team didn’t get to see it – my mom would have come unglued (I think my youngest sister did it for her – some story about streaking down her street in Slidell with a pair of sparklers!).

Y’know, once I finally calmed down, stopped bawling like a baby, wiped off that combination of happy and sad tears for seeing this day happen, even if it was from 800 or so miles away…the first thing I wanted to do was come home, fire up the computer and share this right here, with my Saints FAMILY.

Thank you again, Dave, and thank you each and every one, for being who we are:

WHO DATS!!!

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BLACK AND GOLD IN THE SUPERBOWL BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!