It’s debatable whether the New Orleans Saints can now be called America’s Team, a moniker on which the Dallas Cowboys’ PR department long ago staked a claim. Likely the Black and Gold will be the sentimental favorite of most viewers come Super Sunday.
What is fair, in a manner of speaking, is calling the Saints Congress’ team. Since taking their very first kick-off for a touchdown in 1967 as a newly minted NFL franchise, and through 43 mostly futile, frustrating years, the Saints have owed their very existence to late Louisiana Congressman Hale Boggs, who in 1966 made a deal with then-NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle to support the NFL-AFL merger in exchange for New Orleans getting a franchise right away. The franchise was announced on Nov. 1, 1966 — All Saints Day — hence, according to popular legend, the team’s name.
The story of Boggs’ gamesmanship and the birth of the Saints is detailed in a story published today on the New York Times’ Web site.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 26, 2010 - 01:17 pm
SAINTS 38 COLTS 31, YA CAN BOOK DAT ! MAJOR HOOPLE, MASTER PROGNOSTICATOR SEZS DATS THE FINALE, YA CAN TAKE DAT TO THE BANK, READ THIS AND WEEP, DALLAS PEEPS..............
... written by Sal , January 26, 2010 - 01:28 pm
I don't know if we should allow the Saints to be called "Congress's Team" with the extreemly low approval of congress today. I don't think I want Nancy Pelosi and her liberal followers to attach themselves to the very hard working and successful Saints organization. They would take credit for the Saint's success and ruin it for the true Saints fan. KEEP CONGRESS OUT OF THE SAINTS!
... written by Phil , January 26, 2010 - 06:06 pm
how about the gumbo and good times team? Keep congress out of the saints.
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 26, 2010 - 06:25 pm
DEY EVERYWHERE! DEY EVERYWHERE! BIG BROTHER IS EVERYWHERE ! DEY IN MY POCKET DEY IN YO POCKET, DEY IN THE SAINTS POCKET, "LARGE.....
... written by nolaf , January 26, 2010 - 07:07 pm
Actually, it's kinda funny that you say "Keep Congress out of the Saints" when, it turns out, the Saints were BORN in Congress. Hmmm.
... written by Unempirical Observer , January 27, 2010 - 12:02 pm
I wonder how many of those Red-Blooded-Eating footballSaints worshipping people out there are suddenly confounded by the irony and filled with revulsion that it was a big-government, integrationist, southern liberal do-gooder Speaker of the House Boggs, who was responsible for getting us a sports (gladiatorial distraction) franchise, that a big business greed-hound threatened to take to Mississippi and Texas, or Los Angeles, constantly extorting our state for more more more!
I like watching the Saints too, and I did get teary-eyed when Sean Payton took the stage and made those subdued allusions to the travails, hardship, fate of the New Orleans city and region.
I hope we use the motivation of this event towards positive ends, and that some confidence about New Orleans, and faith and trust and hardwork and effort towards each other continues to reawaken there. It's one of the greatest cities in the world, and we shouldn't scornfully disdain it so often like an orphan no one wanted.
Salut Nolya, mon cherie, you deserve it.
... written by really? , January 27, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Sal, you need to accept that half the congress is liberal because half the nation voted for them. just because you are a conservative doesn't mean the rest of us have to be. and just because you are conservative doesn't make you right. oh, and by the way: Obama won. get over it. he could screw up every day of his presidency and never even reach the level perpetrated by your guy, W. don't like the economy? thank W. Don't like the deficit? Thank Dick, all the $ went to his buds anyway. catch a clue, man
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 27, 2010 - 10:11 pm
Someone ! please give Unemployed Observah ah crying towel, and who gives ah big rats ass whether it be an intergrationist or the Catholic Pope, who was instrumental in the Saints franchise arriving in New Orleans, what counts is now, and then the Super Bowl Win .
... written by Sal , January 28, 2010 - 06:20 pm
Hey Really? It is obvious you drank THE koolaid and you drank too much of it
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , January 28, 2010 - 09:34 pm
SAL, The peeps are not ingesting, more like the past couillion demo. president they be having the fire tooo close and be breathing the smoke. from the ripe banana skins, ya know what that does ! Eh ?
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