Sunday, January 24, 2010

FINAL: SAINTS 31, VIKINGS 28 (OVERTIME)


NO ONE BEAT DEM SAINTS!

No city wants this like New Orleans. It’s all we talk about. Think about. Dream about. Sunday will be a beautiful day in the city of New Orleans. I will wake up… find the second line parade that heads straight to the Superdome.. and enjoy the dreamlike atmosphere. It’ll be a great game!

– From a reader named New Orleanian in the comments section


From the The New York Times.


23 comments:

  1. Good for the Saints.

    Which does not for one second mean that I acknowledge the game played on that tiny field with thaat tiny ball, with too many downs and that fatuous fair catch rule to be real football. Not for a moment.

    But it would do Nawlins well to win a professional sports championship.

    Even if its in a sport intended to be played by adolescent girls.

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  2. I rejoice with you and with all the Saints fans, Mimi (even if they did make my weekend commute to work rather tenuous back in 2008).

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  3. They looked good and played hard -- we used to live in Minnesota so have a soft spot for the Vikings - but I was for the Saints tonight.

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  4. Malcolm, Paul, Ann, thanks. New Orleans needed a win. Bourbon Street is rockin' tonight. Even here in Thibodaux, folks were outside their houses screaming after the game ended.

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  5. I hope you joined in the screaming Mimi. I love the Louis Armstrong clip. Thank you.

    BTW my WV has identified a new element "ounium" I think it has something to do with Wall Street greed.

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  6. I agree that American football is not worth our attention (three hours to play ten minutes?), but it helps keep our spirits up. Now in the real football, we play for 90 minutes with only a ten minute halftime break.

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  7. Is this evidence that God is a Saints fan? Strange, I could have sworn He followed my own football team, Melbourne ... never mind that they're the Demons and have lost pretty much every match for the past 30 years ... I still reckon He's a fan.

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  8. Amelia, I celebrate quietly.

    Ormonde, I am not at all a fan of watching football, since TV took control.

    Cathy, God would be very wrong not to be a Saints fan, don't you think? Although where God's been through all the Saints' losing seasons, I can't say.

    Laissez les bons temps rouler!

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  9. As the saints cried out from beneath the altar, How long, O Lord?

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  10. Paul, mon cher ami, what would I do without you? I want you for my gay husband, too, although I realize that I'm in competition with younger and prettier Doxy. Is bigamy permitted for gay husbands who marry women?

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  11. hi Mimi, well when it comes to football teams the Saints definitely have the best tunes

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  12. Now ladies, though there is enough of me to go around, you both have husbands and I have no interest in breaking up homes.

    Would it be all right to paint my face in black and gold on Superbowl Sunday, even though I will be presiding at the Eucharist that morning?

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  13. Cathy, damn right!

    Paul, no breaking up families. We could have an "arrangement", if you know what I mean.

    Go for the black and gold at the Eucharist, love. That would be so YOU.

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  14. Our Dean always has Super Bowl vestments - here are some from a past Super Bowl. The one's for this year are in process.

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  15. Ann, the vestments are wonderful! Do let me know when this year's versions are ready.

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  16. Flash from Lambeth: The Archbishop of Canterbury has decreed that the liturgical colours (he means "colors") on the Fifth Sunday after Epiphany this year shall be black and gold.

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  17. Ormonde, LOL! We forgive ABC the misspelling, poor baby.

    I am always Saints-ready because of my fleur-de-lis tattoo in black and gold.

    Now if someone, anyone, would gift the ABC with a visit to an upscale hair salon in London, he'd look splendid in his black and gold vestments.

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  18. I'm glad that your favorite corporate sports franchise won the competition. I remember many years ago when I supported a corporate sports franchise named after drunken gold miners, and everyone would get so excited as they won many games for several years, even some season-end competition which was always a blow-out in which the corporate sports franchise I supported always defeated their competition within the first "half."
    I haven't watched any of these exhibitions in many years.

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  19. My daughter-in-law is a Vikings fan because she is from Minnesota, but I am glad the Saints won!

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  20. I grew up in New Orleans. I remember the excitement in the city when it first got a professional football team. In the Saints’ very first play, they ran a kickoff for a touchdown. The team’s fortunes have largely been downhill since then. Although I am not really a football fan, I watched last night’s game—a real nail biter—and I celebrated for New Orleans when the Saints won.

    Now, on to the Super Bowl.

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  21. Congratulations. We've ben rooting for you ever since our Bears went belly up.

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  22. Mickey, the corporate sports franchises hold no allure for me, but you must see that this game was about more than the Saints franchise. It was about the heart and soul of a people.

    Oh Ciss! That is beyond generous of you.

    Lionel, I am not a football fan, but this game was more than a game. And to have the play exciting and a cliff-hanger was - well - lagniappe.

    Ruth, I thank you, and I thank your beloved.

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