Sent from a Falcons Fan on Facebook.. Had to share this.
by Deep Threat on Dec 28, 2011 6:45 PM CST
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PrintGREAT POST FROM A FALCONS FAN - We will never be what the Saints are. They are a better franchise from top to bottom in every single way you can be. Ryan will never be Brees, Smith will never be Payton, and our fanbase will never be what the Saints fans are.
Watching that game last night I couldn't help but think, "Man, those people look like they have so much fun every Sunday." New Orleans is a ............city of rich culture and historical significance. Atlanta is Frankenstein, built with so many different parts from different places that any sense of culture has long since been diluted. New Orleans has a soul, an identity and those fans share a culture of celebration and togetherness. Meanwhile, we have a city full of ******* retards who still care about what color skin the person next to them has. Dressing up and chanting and generally just having a big party in the stands was really something to see.
I thought I couldn't be any more jealous of them after they won the Lombardi, but I was wrong. I'm jealous that this city and this franchise, as far as sports go, will NEVER be New Orleans
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This should be Rec'd from every CSC member
Put it in the recommended Fanpost section…..let roaming Falcons fans who stop by have a good read.
You're such an inspiration for all the ways that I will never, ever choose to be-Maynard James Keenan
Wow! The guy needs to move to New Orleans.
Especially if he thinks it’s just Sunday night for fun! Poor dude.
Whodat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's really cool is he's sooooo right.
No city will ever be New Orleans!
Whodat!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And they wonder why we keep coming back.
New Orleans could be in a glass bubble 20 feet underwater, and I would still choose to live there and call it home.
Stupid people are like slinkies. They're not really useful for anything, but it's still fun to watch them tumble down stairs.
by hooahsaint2.0 on Jan 1, 2012 5:18 AM CST up reply actions 2 recs
New Orleans is one of the most fun cities I've ever been to
Honestly, though, I don’t think I could live there full time. I’d be dead in 6 months.
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Build Lasers And Stuff For More Ownage, Dude!
You learn to pace yourself after a few carnival seasons
by ungarsfragile on Jan 3, 2012 9:01 AM CST up reply actions
And if not...
they have some assume cemeteries.
Drew Brees....MVS Most Valuable Saint! Who Dat!!!
by cajuncommando58 on Jan 4, 2012 10:54 AM CST up reply actions
I have serious trouble
believing this guy is actually a Falcons fan. If he is though, he’s a smart dude, because he’s definitely right. The ATL is “frankenstein” comment is particularly spot-on.
His description of Atlanta is spot-on...
…I’ve got friends there, visit often, and really hate the place. Awful, soulless, overcrowded hole. It wishes it was 1/10 the city NOLA is.
Irony: an atheist Saints fan
Time to repost this great quote from John Shelton Reed
“Every time I look at Atlanta, I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.”
New Orleans is the best place in the country to be from. The only thing better is being there right now.
"Mercedes Numbah One."
--unidentified Khmer Rouge punk Saints fan
by MtnExile on Dec 28, 2011 8:39 PM CST reply actions 4 recs
Exactly.
Atlanta is all that is bad about a big, nothern city, stuck in the deep south. Sickening.
And while I love where I live now, if there were some way for me to take my job and relocate it to NOLA, I’d be gone in the morning….
Irony: an atheist Saints fan
by GSO Saints Fan on Dec 28, 2011 8:45 PM CST up reply actions
How is it that a music company wouldn’t do better in one of the great music cities of North America?
"Mercedes Numbah One."
--unidentified Khmer Rouge punk Saints fan
Ah, an excellent question.
With a simple and reasonable answer.
The founder and owner grew up in NC (Sanford, specifically), and has lived and worked here in Greensboro for over 40 years now. It is his, and his family’s home. I can say that Greensboro is my second favorite city, so all is not lost.
Irony: an atheist Saints fan
by GSO Saints Fan on Dec 28, 2011 11:13 PM CST via mobile up reply actions
Congratulations, brother. You’ve broken the chains and are free of the cave. Welcome to enlightenment.
In Breesus' name we play
by Breesus Christ Superstar on Dec 28, 2011 9:20 PM CST reply actions
yes.
In Breesus' name we play
by Breesus Christ Superstar on Jan 1, 2012 10:07 AM CST up reply actions
Boy, Matt Ryan sure knows how to write!
Friends don't let friends Tweet.
by Just 'Nother Day on Dec 28, 2011 9:25 PM CST reply actions 9 recs
LOL
In Breesus' name we play
by Breesus Christ Superstar on Dec 28, 2011 9:29 PM CST up reply actions
Prolly so.. but he had to get Redman to write it down for him
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury s#!t on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to s#!t, freaked out. I mean, I never saw a guy having so much fun and crying at the same time!
Dave Choate?
You think you know, and you don't know, and you never, ever, will.-Jim Mora Sr.
I understand ....nothing.-Michael Scott
The Future is Unwritten.-Joe Strummer
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."-Mahatma Gandhi
Naw...
…Dave don’t live in the ATL. He’s got better sense and taste.
;-)
Irony: an atheist Saints fan
by GSO Saints Fan on Dec 29, 2011 7:42 AM CST up reply actions
Whats so cool for me
Is that my wife is from Northern GA.. her family and friends that are F*n fans refer to her as a traitor.. she will be the 1st to tell’em… she wasn’t even a football fan until she moved below I-10 in 2006… and her response.." My roots may be from GA.. But I BLEED BLACK & GOLD".. Gotta Love that Gal !!!!!
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury s#!t on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to s#!t, freaked out. I mean, I never saw a guy having so much fun and crying at the same time!
If this was written by a Falcons fan,
I’d be willing to bet they weren’t born in Atlanta. Kind of hard to believe that someone hometown so much, but you never know.
"It's about time that something good like this happened." - Drew Brees
Insert
“could hate their” before hometown. Wish we could edit comments once posted!!
"It's about time that something good like this happened." - Drew Brees
prolly the same folks who wear bags on their heads to a home game… that’s just dumb !!
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury s#!t on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to s#!t, freaked out. I mean, I never saw a guy having so much fun and crying at the same time!
I lived in Atlanta for 4 years
a lot of good things, but it is pretty dysfunctional. I lived in the Northeast suburbs and people told me there was no bus service from downtown and midtown Atlanta to the perimeter areas in the NE because they didn’t want the minorities to have easy access.
A lot of gays are present in Atlanta, especially in one or two particular areas, but also a lot of rednecks. Not a good combination. My first week in Atlanta I met a native Atlantean who, when I responded to his question as to whether or not I was from the North, he said to me:
“Down here, we think of Yankees like we think of hemmorhoids- they’re not real bad if they come down and then go back up, but when they come down and stay that’s when they they are a real pain i the a**!” That was my welcome to Atlanta.
"We've established the run; we've established the pass. Now all we have to establish is another championship!"
You know..............I have heard the same
from other fans all over this country. They can say what they want but N.O. Saints IS Americas team. Anything over Atlanta IS a plus in my book.
My Magnificent Black and Gold Warriors
by saint-sly on Dec 30, 2011 2:13 PM CST reply actions 1 recs
I feel the same way about Dallas
Just got back from Nola and the differences are always so glaringly apparent in the weeks following my return. Dallas is just so….blah. Yes, the cost of living grants you better living if better living does not include a city full of life, which is obviously a matter of personal preference. Personally I would love to feed off my city and vice versa, like a mutual exchange. Here I feel like the city just sucks the life out of me. I would imagine that’s how the guy that wrote that quote feels.
Dallas is far better than Atlanta
It has a decent downtown area, and you can usually hear some good music on the weekends, at least.
But they’re both sprawling megacities, designed for cars, not people. (You can throw in Houston there, too).
by ungarsfragile on Jan 3, 2012 9:04 AM CST up reply actions
Houston = Atlanta = sucks
Dallas is waaaaaaaay better than both of those.
It’s not the size of your TOP, it’s how you use it!
Want scientific proof? Read this paper by Dr. Jeremy Arkes.
We Live in the Country and I Hate Cities.....
except New Orleans. No city is as interesting – just riding on the street car down St.Charles Avenue is fun to do, looking at the beautiful mansions. The French Quarter is in a category by itself, talk about interesting! My husband and I go to NO several times a year to try out a new (to us) wonderful restaurant.
If anybody hears of a cottage in the Garden District for sale for a reasonable price, let me know!
If I knew of one, I'd buy it myself.
I live out past the airport and would love to move into town, especially since my business is located Uptown after Katrina.
I don’t think “cottage in the Garden District for sale” and “reasonable price” should ever appear in the same sentence! LOL
LMAO you beat me to it!
Maybe “reasonably pricey?”
Every day I'm shufflin'!
by Just 'Nother Day on Jan 3, 2012 2:41 AM CST up reply actions
That's What I Figured......
even a cottage would be too expensive for me. :(
Oh well, I can always look for one in that cheap French Quarter! :0
by MissButterfly on Jan 3, 2012 9:54 AM CST up reply actions
Bets bet
would be a frat house on Broadway.
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury s#!t on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to s#!t, freaked out. I mean, I never saw a guy having so much fun and crying at the same time!
My response to him is that fandom doesn’t have bounding lines. You CAN be a Saints fan, and live or grow up in Atlanta. It’s okay, you’re an adult. Hell, I’m from California.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. " -Carl Sagan
Wow, what a display
As a fan of ATL sports and the city, I want to respectfully point out that the many Falcons fans who visit this site have let you have your fun here.
The OP that this entire fanpost is based on sounds like an incredibly pathetic individual. To say that Atlanta has no culture is equally as absurd as saying that about NO. I’d also like to point out that the individual has likely never been to the GA Dome for a game, in which s/he’d see fans of all colors rooting on their Falcons. I won’t go so far as to say that racism doesn’t exist in the ATL, but I will note that it isn’t likely to be any worse than in NO (or anywhere else for that matter). ATL has a thriving mix of black and white cultures. And yes, there are rednecks in GA, but just as many as (and just as loud) as those LA/MS folks that root for the Saints.
It’s funny a city like ATL gets so much hate, but yet people flock to it like gnats to a lamp. I apologize in advance for ruining your fun, but I’m not one to let my city be flogged unjustly (for too long at least).
Good luck in the playoffs (until the Falcons meet you — 3rd times the charm).
Want to clarify
I was not calling the original poster (Deep Threat) pathetic, just the Falcons fan from whom’s FB page he took that from.
It's all in the eye of the beholder, my friend.
Good luck in the playoffs.
"Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people. " -Carl Sagan
by crescendo2020 on Jan 4, 2012 2:14 AM CST up reply actions
No Offense taken at all.. actually found it so odd that someone, post so much negativity against his/her home team, much less their own city and of all places faceBook. I mean damn your that unhappy and have to go so low, then move. Another Saints bandwagon fan hoppin on the Black & Gold machine. Ya notice this wasn’t posted when Atlanta made the playoffs last year tho.
You know Hartman, goodie-two-shoes is fidgeting around like a one-legged cat trying to bury s#!t on a frozen pond, until old Seth fixes him a couple of pink poontang specials. You know, that crazy drink that I fix for stewardesses? Two shots out of that and Hartman is shot to s#!t, freaked out. I mean, I never saw a guy having so much fun and crying at the same time!
I lived in GA for about 10 years.
Atlanta is a madhouse. Now, the outlying communities are a different story. Atlanta itself not such a great place. The Atlanta-Metro area is different. If you can’t get there on the I-285 bypass, stay away.
Drew Brees....MVS Most Valuable Saint! Who Dat!!!
by cajuncommando58 on Jan 4, 2012 11:01 AM CST up reply actions
My Husband and I Have Been to Atlanta.....
to Braves games. When we took my elderly parents one time, and my poor Dad with Parkinson’s disease (now deceased) got his pocket picked at the game. The thugs ran up $1,200 in charges on his credit card before he realized his wallet was gone – he thought back to how they’d asked him to bend over to pick up something on the ground they said he’d dropped outside the stadium, which was when they got his wallet.
The traffic was so terrifying, cars flying by at 80 mph, nearly bumper to bumper on the Interstate highway (I-75?) that we used, that I was glad to get out of there alive.
Like Atlanta and all big cities, New Orleans has a lot of typical big-city problems, but Atlanta just doesn’t have any redeeming charm.
I’ve never known anybody who lived there who liked it, but you’re proof that somebody must like it.
By the way, I like the GA rednecks – country people are great. They probably wouldn’t live in Atlanta either.
I know you can’t help what thieves did to my Dad or the traffic, but my husband and I dislike it so much that when we went to Augusta to visit my sister for Thanksgiving, we took the long way, and drove on some two-lane roads just to keep away from Atlanta.
You like it, you keep it.
by MissButterfly on Jan 4, 2012 3:58 PM CST up reply actions
Well it is a Saints blog
So we are entitled to “have our fun here.”
Everyone has their own opinions so to say that the person who wrote the original comment has never been to the Georgia dome for a game simply because they do not agree with your opinion is ridiculous. I dislike Dallas very much in comparison to my family, I have been to Jerry World, and my opinion of Dallas and it’s fans has not changed.
I definitely have to visit New Orleans at some point.
When you look at the history of the city as it pertains to the US, New Orleans wins hands-down over Atlanta. There’s the Cajun culture, there’s the Mardi Gras, there’s the French Quarter. And then, if you’re into numismatics, the New Orleans Mint made some beauties (I am looking at my uncirculated 1903 silver dollar from New Orleans as I write this comment) and I hope to visit everything I listed here some day.
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by Vermont Cubs Fan on Jan 7, 2012 2:19 PM CST reply actions
Yeah, it's a great city; make it there at some point.
Mardi Gras is its own unique craziness, but there’s an electricity to the city that’s indescribable.
13.
Build Lasers And Stuff For More Ownage, Dude!
Prepare to gain 10 pounds.
Just sayin’.
Every day I'm shufflin'!
by Just 'Nother Day on Jan 8, 2012 5:46 AM CST up reply actions
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