Getting to Know You: Rookie Edition

1. birth
2. born and raised in nola (lakeview)
3. guess (loved ricky jackson, bobby hebert, morten anderson, norman hand and deuce along the way [morten and bobby broke my heart signing for the flying rats])
4. super bowl (honorable mentions to rams playoff win, reopening of the dome against atlanta, and playoff victory against the eagles)
5. ironically enough, a similar post like this got me off the bench and made me respond for the first time, which was about this time last year.

btw, what are you doing up at 6am…. i drank too much last night and had to get some water

1. As long as I can remember, so 30+ yrs
2. I have not, have lived on the Mississipi Coast all my life
3. Tough, but going with Duece – had friends at Ole Miss when he was there, saw him play alot in college
3. Vs. Cowboys in Dome in ’03, beat them 10-9 I believe, I really hate the cowboys so it was awesome for me
4. Been reading religously for about year, found CSC last year in the offseason sometime, this is my first post ever!

1. Ever since I realized that the words coming out of my dad’s mouth on Sunday were very bad words, and I should never say them….so ‘bout 25 yrs.
2. Nope, but get down there as much as possible for games and food.
3. I went to Ole Miss, so I think everyone here know the answer to that one….but my fav non-Deuce player is definitely the Cajun Cannon.
4. Rams/Saints (2000) in the most bad-ass wild card game ever.
5. Been reading CSC for about 3 years – was living out of the region and stumbled across it when I was desperate for my Saints fix – I wasn’t even getting to watch the games unless I went to a bar (even tho I wasn’t missing much as far as quality play was concerned).

   1. How long have you been a Saints fan?

Since birth, basically. But in the lean years, always chose an alternate team with a legitimate chance to make the playoffs, usually the . . . ahem . . . Vikings.

   2. Do you or have you ever lived in the New Orleans area?

First 3 decades – Lakeview and Uptown mainly. Missed Katrina being in Japan for the last dozen.

   3. Who is your favorite player, past present or future?

Past: Dalton; Present: Drew, of course.

   4. Best Saints game you’ve ever attended in person?

Don’t know the year, but around 1990 we played the Eagles on Monday night and it was one of the hardest hitting games I’d ever seen. Eric Martin had an unbelievable night.

   5. How long have you been reading Canal Street Chronicles?

I don’t know. Around 27 years?

1) About ten years now. I was born and raised on the Gulf Coast (Pensacola), so I’ve been watching the Saints on Sunday afternoons for as about long as I can remember, but I didn’t become a genuine fan of the team until I moved into New Orleans to attend university at Tulane.

2) See above. I lived in the city for about three years while I was at Tulane.

3) Hard to pick just one, but I’d have to say Joe Horn.

4) Never been to one, sadly. It’s a shame that I spend almost three years in New Orleans, within ten minutes from the Superdome and never got up and went to a game in person. It’s my second biggest regret about my time there, aside from not completing my degree. Maybe someday I’ll make the pilgrimage back.

5) Since about the middle of last season when I kept coming across links to posts here on other sites.

This went even better than I expected and we finally got some old readers out of the woodwork. Thanks to everyone who has shared. Keep ’em coming!

1. 1967.
2. Yep. Still do.
3. That’s a tough question; the Saints have had some colorful characters, some of which could actually play football. I like Doug Atkins from the original Saints. I met him as a boy. He was more a force of nature than a football player. From the current team, In Breesus We Trust. Need I say more?
4. I watched the Saints beat the Cowboys 24-14 (I think that was the score) in Tulane Stadium, one of their two victories that year. Back then, the Saints always seemed to find one team cruising for the Super Bowl and take them down – and pretty much stink the rest of the season.
5. Started following the Chronicles last fall.

Am I banned or something?

Hmm… what about people who have participated in the site quite a bit but never bothered to participate in one of THESE types of posts before? Are we allowed to join in?

   1. Ever since I was old enough to vaguely know what was happening in a football game
   2. And I’m just sayin nola ain’t the only place with extremely loyal saints fans, I’ve lived in Lafayette, LA my entire life til this past year for college.
   3. Honestly I sat here for five minutes and I can’t decide between DEUCEEEEE and Joe Horn so I’ll just put both of them up.
   4. Gotta be this years playoff game with the Cardinals. Week 12 with the Patriots is a close second.
   5. For about a year or so… randomly came across you guys on facebook, read a post or two and been sneaking around laughing at all the comments.

but there also may be value for old-timers to share their stories, too, so that the new folks will get to know them some, too. This road goes both directions????

So maybe us old-timers sit back and lurk for a day or two, or just reply in a friendly way, and then share our answers after we’ve heard from the new folks a bit…?

I’m easy and will go with the flow. I’m no Big and Easy, but I’m still easy like Sunday morning anyway…

1. I have been a Saints fan since I was about 6. My dad went to Tulane and would take our family back to NOLA all the time. Went to my first game against the Colts at the Superdome in 2001, I think… Got my first Saints tattoo on the day of the Super Bowl parade

2. I have never lived in New Orleans but I have family in Kenner

3. Favorite player in the past was Ricky Williams. Present= Drew Brees. Future= (just because his role is not complete yet and his future is bright) Malcolm Jenkins

4.Best Saints game I’ve been to was the NFC Championship game against the vikes this year. Paid $500 for one ticket right behind the end zone. Greatest day of my life

5. I just started reading CSC about 2 weeks ago and I love it

1) I’ve been a Saints fan for 5 years now. It all started when Katrina happened. I heard everything about what happened in New Orleans and even experienced some damage here in Mississippi, and i just started watching the Saints since then.
2) Nope. I was born in Jackson, Misssissippi. I moved to Clinton 4 years ago.
3) Past-good old Deuce…Present-Drew Brees. Overall-Drew Brees. He has done so much for the city and for the team and it is impossible not to love that guy.
4) Giants @ Saints last season in Week 6. section 146, row 14, seat 11. I don’t think I’ve had more fun anywhere else in my life; and the Saints tore the Giants up.
5) I’ve been reading for about a year now.

1. Since the beginning of time – 1967.
2. Yep, born in Mercy Hospital.
3. Tough one. I guess Deuce but I really used to love watching the Beer Man (Michael Lewis) run it back. Can I throw Coach in for good measure?
4. Torn between 2: Took my son to his first game (as a real live person – keep reading, you’ll see what I mean), the NFC Divisional in Jan. 2007 when the Eagles got plucked. Other favorite was in Atlanta in 1997. Saints got intercepted (again!) and I was standing there screaming my head off at Ditka (don’t get me started). I was 3 months pregnant and my unborn son chose that particular moment to kick for the very first time. He’s got to be the most loyal Saints fan I know.
5. Started reading about a year ago.

   1. Since I can remember which would be like 5 or 6 years old. (I am 24 now)
   2. I live in Chalmette. Da Parish.
   3. Roman Harper. I am a fan of hard hits.
   4. Recently I went to the Cowboys/Saints game, the one the Saints lost >_<. The ending wasn`t great but the experience was awesome. It had to be my first game in years. Tix were free too. I think it was something like Section 221 Row 1 Seats 2 and 2.
   5. About a month or so. I didn`t know this even existed until then =x

1. My family moved from Louisiana right before I was Born and my dad told me growing up I had to be a Saints fan. But I didnt truly start paying attention until Katrina and rumors were going around the Saints were moving to another city. Then in the 2006 Season I started watching a few games a little bit.
2.No Family had lived there and I have been there to visit them and also for Mardi Gras a time or two.
3. I’m gonna go with Pierre
4.Sad to Say haven’t seen one, living a bit far away from the Dome, plus I’ve been young so It’s hard to go to a game. Hope I can go to one this year.
5.Since mid-way through last year, was sick of saints news going through the msm filter so that they were about to lose the next game and the Saints were bound to lose, fluke etc. Started being a regular reader after the cowboys game, since I could find out quicker from ya’ll faster than the sports things on espn or yahoo.

1. My family moved to Metairie when I was a baby, they were still routing for the Eagles half the time but I was a Saints fan from the start.

2. I lived in J.P. till I was thirteen then we moved to Picayune till I was about 18. Working on moving back.

3. Split answer: On the field I’d have to say Morten Andersen. Back when he was our offense, I remember routing for him like most fans rout for a QB. Off the field I’m going with the Cajun Cannon; I catch him on the radio whenever possible.

4. I’ve never been to a game when I was old enough to know what was going on, not sure I ever will. I’d rather watch the game in a bar with my brother.

5. Early in last season, I wan’t to say week four, I typed “Bucky Brooks is an idiot” into google, clicked on I feel lucky, and voila I found the Chronic. If there was a websearch bar on the front page, it would be my homepage.

1. How long have you been a Saints fan?
My whole life.

2. Do you or have you ever lived in the New Orleans area?
From the Dell, but I am a senior at Ole Miss

Who is your favorite player, past present or future?
Archie.

Best Saints game you’ve ever attended in person?
Only been to a few. None of them were during the good times. Except for 1, where we almost blew a lead in 2002 to the steelers.

How long have you been reading Canal Street Chronicles?
Beginning of last season? I almost immediately started writing the 12 reasons for hate.

1. Been a fan since they were first conceived in 1967 when I was 11 years old.

2. I lived in the French Quarter when I was a kid, then moved to Metairie later on as an adult. Unfortunately, I’ve now been living in North Carolina for the past 3 years(right in the middle of Panther country).

3. My favorite past players are either Rickey Jackson, Rueben Mayes, or Dalton Hilliard. And of course Drew Brees is my favorite now.

4. Very first game in September 1967. As soon as John Gilliam ran in for that touchdown, I leaned over and told my dad, “Man, we sure have good team here, dont we!!”

5. Umm, I guess I’ve been going to this website for 2 years now, but this is my first time posting.

How long have you been a Saints fan?
Do you or have you ever lived in the New Orleans area?
Who is your favorite player, past present or future?
Best Saints game you’ve ever attended in person?
How long have you been reading Canal Street Chronicles?

Childhood
All my life; hopefully will after college / grad school
Drew Brees
They’re all good; unfortunately, they’ve lost the last three I’ve been to (Last TB game this past year, last Panthers game the year before, Redskins game two years before that…I’ll stay away from playoff games, I swear)
Since this time last year;

“Future”

Is that some sort of reference to whoever suggested we draft Baylen Brees in the seventh round of the draft, just to get first dibs?

Now you need to install a button for a “Group Hug!”

1. Since 1989, when I moved to MS from MO, I learned the game watching the Saints and it didn’t seem right to watch anyone else after I caught on to the game.

2. I’ve never lived there but I have enjoyed an adult beverage or two there.

3. Man, picking one guy is difficult to do here. I loved Sam Mills and Joe Johnson was a stud on the line, but Deuce was my hero at Ole Miss, and I can’t describe the joy I felt on draft day when we called his name.

4. Like many others, the Rams game (Hakim drops the ball) was the greatest I’ve seen in person. I sat next to a guy who had been watching since his childhood and was so happy during the first half he kept buying my friend and I beers, and nearly died of a heart attack in the second! It was the best experience I’ve ever had at a game.

5. I’ve been lurking around, posted maybe once or twice (I haven’t checked) since before the ‘08 season. This is a great site, the regulars constantly hit on great points and always drag a chuckle out of me with the great wit tossed about with Brees-like accuracy. This is truly my number one source for Saints information. Keep up the good work y’all.

1. Ever since I have been watching sports. So maybe 4 th grade 10 or so.
2.I live in Gulf Shores, Al
3.I loved Joe horn, but now it has to be either Brees or Roman Harper (Roll Tide Roll!!!!)
4.I went to my first game this year and we went to 3 of them. The best one was the panthers game at home.
5 I found it on yahoo a little over a year ago and have loved it ever since.

   1. How long have you been a Saints fan?

Pretty much since the first minutes of the re-opening of the Superdome. I had managed to make it 30+ years and seven states without ever acquiring an NFL team. I lived in Milwaukee as a kid without becoming a Packers fan, I lived in Chicago for seven years without becoming a Bears fan — my team has always been Oklahoma — but that first couple minutes against the Falcons, new as I was in town, did it for me.

   2. Do you or have you ever lived in the New Orleans area?

Came down after Katrina.

   3. Who is your favorite player, past present or future?

I don’t really know how it could be anyone but Brees, regardless of how long you’ve been a fan. Is there another guy who exemplifies everything that other teams wish they had on their team? Hopefully without descending into celebrity worship, but rather meant as a quite honest question, I think I could reasonably ask that question across the world of professional sports for any athlete in any game. Drew is a peak performer who is a vocal and active model of his community. We’re really quite lucky.

   4. Best Saints game you’ve ever attended in person?

Only attended one preseason game (the only NFL “game” I’ve ever attended live). Had a friend who had a box. Mostly, everybody in the boxes only cared that Michael Phelps beat Spitz’s record that night. (The Saints lost, but nobody who made the starting lineup even played.) NFL tickets are expensive.

   5. How long have you been reading Canal Street Chronicles?

I don’t know. I’ve been clicking on articles since ’06, but never really paid attention to this forum since last year.

Also, as a side note to SaintBevo, the university of saxeT has produced some fine, fine athletes in its proud history, and I’m forever grateful to the contributions that saxeT players have made to the Saints organization, just as I’m sure you’re grateful for the contributions Oklahoma players have made. It had to be said. See you in October.

1. Always been a Saints fan, gradually more and more interested since 2005.
2. Lived in Houma and went to high school there, lived in New Orleans from 2003 until Katrina, displaced in New Jersey since then.
3. Deuce, Drew, Lance Moore, and Mike Bell.
4. Still never been to a game. Hopefully one this upcoming season.
5. Since my husband (arcuate) found the site at the start of last season.

1) Been a fan for about 15 years.
2) I live about 60 miles south of the Big Easy, but my dad grew up there and most of his side of the family still lives there.
3) Deuce McAllister
4) First regular season game I ever attended: Opening day against the Lions, 2009. I still have the ticket stub. It’s not a Superbowl ticket, but it will be my little part of Saints history.
5) According to my profile, August 28, 2009.

1) born a saints fan
2) I was born in Nawlins and raised in Southwest, MS. Spent every summer in Nawlins with my great aunts.
3) I like Devery, Deuce, and who remembers the “Beer Man”??!!!
4) My first game I attended was last years Panthers vs. Saints game. Great atmosphere and fun loving people. I had so much fun, but froze my butt off.
5) It’s been close to a year. (My grandfather told me that the Saints would win last year. Unfortunately he passed in November, and didnt get to see it.)

I am truely sorry about the loss of your grandfather. As an old Saints fan, I had always assumed the Saints would eventually be champions, but had wondered if it would be in my lifetime. I had pictured my 4 kids (currently aged 21 to 41) as old people one day saying, long after my demise, “Dad would have been so happy,” The good news for me is, I lived to see it!. Please keep posting.

1. Born a Saints Fan (22 Years)
2. Born and Raised in Alexandria, LA. Lived in New Orleans since Katrina.
3. Deuce and Horn obviously. Currently, I love the O-Line. Not only do they give Brees the time to do what he does best (throw the most accurate passes in the NFL), they are athletic enough to run the best screens I’ve ever seen making convoys that go all the way into the secondary. Bushrod really stepped up when needed.
4. Never seen a game unfortunately. But have seen all of them I can on TV for 22 years. I watched the Patriots Saints game this year in a bar in Vermont where everyone was a Pats fan. Of course I had a huge Who Dat? flag tied around my neck and at the end of the night the very same hardcore Pats fans who were telling me to “f*ck myself and my mother” the whole game were buying me drinks they were so impressed with the Saints performance. No longer do I hate Pats fans.
5. I’ve been lurking for about a year. Never had the gumption to post until now.

1. I guess i have been a Saints fan for as long as i can remember, I am 34 and guess I was born a Saints fan
2. Only lived in BR for 4 months, i am a military brat, but mom is from N.O. and dad is from BR
3. My favorite player of all time would have to be Deuuuccceeee and close seconds would probably be Sam Mills and Beer Man
4. I would say the game last season against the Redskins, because I have lived in the DC area for the past 11 years and hate the ’Skins, but the Superbowl game this year I will forever remember for its historical reasons!!!
5. I have been reading CSC for about 3 years now, am an avid reader, one of these days they are going to block me from reading at work