Bourbon Street Erupts After Saints Victory
How can you not love the Saints? Obviously I wish the Pats were in the Superbowl, but this matchup is probably the most I could care about the Superbowl without us in it. Not only are the Colts my most hated team in the league but I actually like New Orleans. Like if the Pats can’t win it, the Saints would be my #2 choice in the league. And there is nobody I’d rather see them beat then Indy so Archie Manning can’t celebrate the victory either. So for all that is holy let’s just hope they shock the world.
i still dont really understand why most pats fans hate the colts so much. i mean, i never liked tony dungy, he always seemed a little suspect. and peyton was a little insufferable early in the decade, but he’s become too good to hate at this point. and a lot of his commercials arent too bad. plus, how do you hate reggie wayne? i mean, now that marvin is gone and edge are gone, that team isnt to hate-able. (and you gotta love pierre garcon and austin collie coming out of nowhere)
Jacoby,
You must have been sleeping for the past decade to ask this question
The Saints would be your number 2? How ’bout dem Brownies? Cleveland has pretty much constantly looked like it was destroyed by a hurricane since Rockefeller left, where’s our sympathy card?
EP:
How’s your gross mouth tumor? What’s the verdict?
I went to a doctor yesterday and I have to see a dentist or something
So are you gonna Mortal Lock Clemson -3 vs BC tonight?
And the Saints suck because they are a bunch of dumb rednecks. “Who Dat” is about as bad as chanting Yankees Suck at a B’s game
Great night to be a pick pocket, Bank
“or something.” Maybe a voodoo priestess.
I don’t have a dog in this fight, either way I could care less.
With that said… I don’t want to pay to rebuild N.O. (again) after the Saints win and their fans party/riot/loot their way across the city.
i havent been sleeping, ive watched the pats struggle against them in the regular season, but get the better of them in the post season. if the colts were to continuously beat down the pats every year in the playoffs, i would hate them. but at this point, its clear that tom brady is joe montana and peyton isnt, and the pats will go down as the best team of this decade. what is there to hate? peyton is a whiny bitch? i havent even seen that out of him lately. he just seems like a down to earth guy who works his ass off to be the best QB possible, and he seems to be a pretty funny guy.
i called the saints/colts superbowl the second the pats started sucking ass, so basically the beginning of the season
saints win 45-38
I’d like them much more if they played anywhere but New Orleans. I’ve only been once, and it was post Katrina (Feb of 2009), but you literally couldn’t buy me a plane ticket, pay for my stay at the best hotel the city has to offer, and drive me around to wherever I wanted to go. Has anyone been recently and actually liked the city?
haha i went to the pats saints game on monday night and thought i was in a third world country… its insane
and isnt who dat? originally from the bengals? pretty lame to steal a chant
I think im going to cheer for the saints but the score will be 421 – 9 colts
The Bengals have “Who dey”, whatever the fuck that means. Saints still suck. Hope Brees takes some of that bonus money and gets a dermal abrasion and a haircut.
I go to New Orleans alot for work (every other week for past 2 years)
Bourbon St. is a boring tourist trap….trust me….all the ‘shot girls’ have their play with the amateurs
From Poydras (Superdome) to the river and back up Canal to Bourbon is ‘ok’ – other than that….good luck staying alive past dark
The airport has free WIFI – which until this past week – the douchebags at Massport should have done from the start
ps – WTF was Favre thinking on that pass – sad.
So I am originally from New England and have been living in New Orleans for a year and a half now. I can understand that if you come to the city and only see the touristy areas you can get sick of it and think its stupid, but lets be honest thinking that the french quarter is the only thing to do in new Orleans is like thinking the only part of Boston is Faneuil Hall. While there are some fun things to do there, most locals do not go there on a regular basis.
On Sunday night I did go into the French Quarter after this game was over just to feel the electricity of the game and the city. It is probably (some of you may disagree) the most passionate NFL city on the whole. I went to the grocery store Sunday morning and saw very few people not decked out in black and gold. Even places that you would never expect to be frequented by regular football fans (ie bohemian type coffee shops) were closed on Sunday night because they knew there would be no business. One Sunday morning recently I saw four homeless guys drinking at a gas station and discussing the Saints.
The whole thing kind of reminds me of another passionate fanbase I know: Red Sox Nation. I was in Boston for game 4 of the 2007 World Series and was part of a group that post game paraded around the city much like they did in this video. My guess is that some of you may have even been there for that. While I was walking with my fiancee the other night I was telling her that it was a lot like that night in Boston, only New Orleans did it much bigger.
This is a city that has faced a lot of hardships football, hurricanes, and otherwise not just in the recent past, but for a long long time. The past few days have been some of the happiest I’ve ever seen down here and that is just for a chance to go to the Superbowl. They have already announced the cancellations (not postponements) of a few Mardi Gras parades (these are 150 year old traditions that can cost upwards of $20,000 to participate in) because they are going to be on Super Bowl Sunday. They have also announced that there will be a Saints parade following the Super Bowl regardless of the outcome of the game just to show celebrate the season.
And to clear up the Who Dat thing. Its a NOLA thing. Do you really think that something that came from turn of the century jazz music originated in Cincinnati (Do they even have jazz in Ohio?)? People started saying it down here about the Saints in the 1970s (the team began in 1967). It didn’t begin in Cincinatti until the 1980′s.
So thank you to el Pres for his support of the Saints and New Orleans. And from the rest of Red Sox Nation can I please get a big WHO DAT?