WHEW! That felt good. Looked good, sounded good, it was good. See what a run game’ll do for a team? It helped a pretty pedestrian team like Tampa Bay roll to a 3-1 record. It makes an okay, “game-managing” quarterback (see Alex Smith) look good, and a good QB (see Matt Ryan) seem great. And it makes [...]
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Madden Picks the Saints: October
October 1, 2010 – 12:06 am
[Supagroup’s Chris Lee is playing this year’s Saints season on Madden ’11 and using it to predict this season’s games.] October 3, Carolina at New Orleans: Carolina may be the toughest match-up for the Saints in the division. They play good defense, control the clock, and can score quickly. Their big plays come on the [...]
Drew Brees Featured on “60 Minutes”
September 27, 2010 – 8:20 am
Hours after the New Orleans Saints lost their first game since January 3, CBS profiled quarterback Drew Brees on 60 Minutes. Here’s the video; there’s more on the 60 Minutes website. It’s worth checking out for the segment titled “Walk on the Wild Side,” with Brees and reporter Steve Kroft walking on Canal Street and [...]
What Do Winners Do?
September 21, 2010 – 9:08 am
They win, and there are no style points in football. I look forward to better showings from the Saints offense, but that’ll come. One thing last year’s playoff run demonstrated is that TV analysts love intangibles, but talent wins. Each time someone constructed a storyline that called for us to lose – Arizona’s got momentum, [...]
YouTube du Jour: Black and Gold Mafia Family
September 20, 2010 – 11:38 am
Now that Saints football is back we’re looking forward to more Black and Gold-related songs via YouTube. Nader Mirfiq and Dubb of the Hut Recording Studio are some of the first out of the block this season, with their Saints version of the Rick Ross song “B.M.F.” Ross is scheduled to perform at Mardi Gras [...]
Ante Up
September 15, 2010 – 4:54 pm
Following up on last week’s blog post, I got a lot of feedback from the Vieux Carre Property Owners, Resident & Associates (VCPORA), the local group whose mission is “To preserve the Vieux Carré as a national treasure, to maintain its quaint and distinctive character and to achieve in that historic, living neighborhood a quality [...]
YouTube du Jour: New Orleans Saints in the House Tonight
September 9, 2010 – 8:28 am
We gonna start this thing off right / We got NEW ORLEANS in the house tonight!
Jeez, I Hope We Win
September 8, 2010 – 6:00 pm
It’s late Wednesday afternoon, and I just took a little walk around the Quarter, which is already chock-full of football fans, still relatively sober, waiting for tomorrow’s game and festivities. They’re wandering around, Big Ass Beers in hand looking for special deals on souvenirs. Yes indeed, Mardi Gras, but with the addition of Dave Matthews [...]
Madden ’11 Says Saints by Seven
September 8, 2010 – 4:28 pm
One thing that’s useful to remember about the NFL is that it is the most successful, most watched, and longest running television show in history. Sure, the action on the field is exciting and it’s the point of the whole exercise, but it’s the ongoing storylines that keep us coming back year after year. The [...]
The Saints: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner of Champions
September 1, 2010 – 12:15 am
To paraphrase Dave Barry, the stomach is the most important organ in the human body. The heart is fine and dandy, but it is not nearly as satisfied by a slice of pizza. Without a stomach, armies would not be able to march and the heart of a man would be unreachable. Dean Pigeon (pronounced [...]
