A day before the New Orleans Saints play in their first Super Bowl, former Saints linebacker Rickey Jackson was elected Saturday as a member of Pro Football Hall of Fame. The 51-year-old Jackson’s bust will be enshrined in the Canton, Ohio, hall in August; he is the first Saint elected to the hall.
A second round pick in the 1981 draft out of the University of Pittsburgh, Jackson played 13 years for the Saints (1981-1993), most famously as a member of the vaunted Dome Patrol linebacking corps that included Pat Swilling, Vaughn Johnson and Sam Mills, a group ranked by the NFL Network as the best of all time. During his career with the Saints, Jackson was selected to the Pro Bowl six times. His 123 career sacks with the Saints remains a team record. Jackson won a Super Bowl championship as a member of the San Francisco 49ers during a two-year, career-ending stint with the Saints' rival in the old NFC West.
... written by Gros Jackson fan , February 07, 2010 - 02:56 am
Love it! One of the great Saints of all time. Cat always negotiated his own contract. He has great timing, too! We goin' to the Supe!
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , February 08, 2010 - 03:18 am
MAIS* WHO DAT SAY DEY GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS DEY BE DOWN ON BOUBON, RAISING ALL KINDA CANE THE WORLD FOUND OUT, THE COLTS CAN'T BEAT DEM SAINTS DOWN IN NAW AWLINEES, IT'LL NEVAH BE DA SAME AIYEEEEEEEEEEE, IT'S PARITY TIME, IN THE BREESE CITY !
... written by NORTHSIDIAN SHOTGUN , February 08, 2010 - 03:23 am
YEAH, UH HUH, UH HUH, WE BEEN DERE ! """""""""" THE SAINTS BE THE NEW SUPERBOWL CHAMPIONS.......... WE'S LUV DEM SAINTS FAREVAH AND EVAH............
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There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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