NO ONE GONNA BEAT DEM SAINTS!!!!
NOT EVEN CLOSE - 31-17!!!
UPDATE: For All the Saints Who From Their Labors Rest
For all the saints, who from their labors rest,
who thee by faith before the world confessed,
thy Name, O Jesus, be forever blessed.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thou wast their Rock, their Fortress and their Might;
thou, Lord, their Captain in the well fought fight;
thou, in the darkness drear, their one true Light.
Alleluia, Alleluia!
Thanks to Paul (A.). Sing along here.
You know, I've said again and again, that winning the NFL championship and the Superbowl is about much more than a football game. The Saints team win is a sign of hope for the full comeback for the city of New Orleans and south Louisiana. The victory helps us to believe in ourselves again.
Woo Hoo!
ReplyDeleteHurray! Yay Saints!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS!!!!!! What a wonderful day.
ReplyDeleteFun game, GREAT outcome!!
ReplyDeleteSaints quarterback Drew Brees: "God is great.... It's destiny. It was meant to be."
ReplyDeleteAs Ive said before, this was about more than a football game for the folks in New Orleans and south Louisiana.
Who Dat? Peyton Manning off to the lockers as the Saints celebrate!! Congratulations Louisiana! What a nice pick me up!!
ReplyDeleteCongrats! I rejoice for you. Who dat?
ReplyDeleteWHO DAT?
ReplyDeleteSecondlining back to NOLA with the trophy in their hands!
Who dat sey dey gone beat dem SAINTS!
I was so thrilled to see them win and win by so much!!!
ReplyDeleteThe Saints triumphant rise in bright array.
ReplyDeletewv: tritake (three goal-line tries and keep on trying)
Congrats !!!!
ReplyDeleteI am suprised you are home, figered averyone in Louisiana would be on Bourbon Street about now :>)
Who dat?!!
Definitely Who Dat!!! Wonderful game.
ReplyDeleteTalk about "Finish Strong"!!! Dey did dat!!! Hooray!!!
ReplyDeleteWord vf: blesis !!! Yeah, and bless them, too!!
Way to go Saints. Laissez les bons temps rouler
ReplyDeleteConGREATulations!
ReplyDeleteAll week long, I've been saying (jokingly) that I am a member of the Who Care nation. The main thing this game means to me is that I couldn't drive my usual way to and from work this week, especially today, because of the monster traffic jam. This is the tenth Superbowl in Miami; it gets a little boring after the first couple of times. Especially when my time (the Patriots) aren't in it.
The Dolphin Stadium was just renamed Sun Life Stadium, by the way. For the actual football season, the name rights were leased out to Jimmy Buffet's beer, Landshark. It would have been much better, I think, if the Superbowl was held in Landshark Stadium, don't you think?
Again, it may have been a bore to me, but I know how exciting it was for you, especially since the game came out the right way.
No Bourbon Street tonight for me. I was caught once in a crushing crowd on Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras, and I vowed never again.
ReplyDeleteBy the way, the Saints quarterback, Drew Brees, is an Episcopalian.
I don't follow football. I don't even know the names of the Saints players, except for the quarterback, but I watched tonight and screamed and hollered with the best of the faithful fans.
Thank you all for sharing my joy.
Grand, grand game. Takes me back to when my 49ers could win ... you folks deserve this .. all the forgotten, and ignored, and the underdogs do!
ReplyDeleteWHO DAT!!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations Grandmère Mimi, hope you had a splendid night! I watched the game with a bunch of brother officers here in Chicago, 9 out of 10 who were rooting for the Saints.
I don't follow football either, but I was pulling for the Saints; it just seemed right for Louisiana and New Orleans. Congrats to all.
ReplyDeleteFrom a Texas Episcopalian
Jan and Corstarr, thanks. I'm glad folks understand.
ReplyDeleteBubs, I know that you know what this win means to us.
By the way, the Saints quarterback, Drew Brees, is an Episcopalian
ReplyDeleteOh well no wonder they won!!
Congrats, Mimi, to y'all's team. Who Dat? Dey Dat!
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Interesting: Democrats overwhelmingly supported the Saints, Republicans (slightly) supported the Colts. Good omen (for a change)?
[Takes me back to when my 49ers could win ...: me too, Jan. Me too. When I was visiting my brother over the holidays, he pulled out an old cassette tape he'd found. It was the last 15 minutes (plus the Post-Game Show), of the 49ers first Super Bowl win in 1982. We know what Mimi (et al, NOLA way) are feeling, don't we?]
Congratulations, Mimi! And your player with the Japanese name seems a capital fellow ;=)
ReplyDeletevw "joyfedle"
"Oh when the saints, go over there, Oh when the saints go over there.
ReplyDeleteI wanna be in that rhumba, oh when the saints go over there!" -- Homer Simpson
Congrats Mimi!
Felicitations Saints!
ReplyDeleteFeliciations chere Mimi!!
With four fleurs de lys on our provincial flag, with endless cajun connections- to say nothing of our Mimi, it's a no-brainer who we were rooting for here.
I was so excited that I couldn't fall asleep last night.
ReplyDeleteThanks for all the good wishes.
I know what it means to you. :-)
ReplyDeleteGrandmere --I am elated for you and all of NOLA!!!!! Party Hearty!
ReplyDeleteGame? Oh, you mean that stuff going on between the commercials?*
ReplyDelete(*Satire. One of the few SB's in recent memory where people aren't talking about even the Tebow commercial (which I missed) the next day. Who dat?!)
Counterlight, I like Homer Simpson's rhumba version. :-)
ReplyDeleteKirstin, I know that you know.
RMJ, I am habituated to tuning out commercials, and I'm sure I missed a few clever ads during the SB, but no matter.
Folks from all around the world supported the Saints. I did my part to make that happen.
Dammit woman!
ReplyDeleteThe important thing, the important thing is - did you see the Last Airbender trailer?!
Football happens all the time!
wv: glutzbjn - a small town in Poland, I believe.
Football happens all the time!
ReplyDeleteNot for me, Mark, but I did see the Last Airbender trailer. :-)
Grandmere, I cannot tell you how happy I was that the Saints won.
ReplyDeleteDrew Brees went to Purdue, and had astonishing success; I remember a game at Wisconsin with the Rose Bowl bid on the line. Close game, time running out, Wisconsin took the lead, and Brees had 70 seconds to win the game. No problem, the most amazing performance I've ever experienced, Purdue to Pasadena.
Much as we all admire Peyton Manning and family, no Purdue fan will ever doubt Drew Brees. Never. Case closed.
Given what this team has meant to south Louziana, I found listening to the game a strange spiritual moment. I don't think God cares one whit about sports except to enjoy them. Praying for "my team" to win is so massively reductive of the Divine as to be absurd.
And yet this game was almost a religious experience for me. I never asked God to let the Saints win, or make them win. God likes tailgating and s/he didn't graduate from anywhere, s/he just likes a good game.
Still, so much was riding on this; the hopes and future of a city and a region that suffered so horribly. I talked to God all through the game.
When it was over, I too heard Brees say, "God is great. It was destiny."
I wrote a blog post afterwards, "There is a God!"
I've seen you assert that Brees is an Episcopalian, but sources differ; he attended an Episcopal middle school in Austin, but other online sources claim he is RC. I'd appreciate it if you'd document your source.
Meanwhile this I know, you know and he knows: the whole country, the whole world (except Indianapolis) was pulling for the Saints as a way to love and heal and rebuild New Orleans. I figure God finally said to St. Peter, "I'm hearing so much chatter about this ballgame I think we'd better watch. Tell the kitchen staff we're going to need a whole lot of gumbo."
It was after all the Lord's Day. Jesus covered the earth with colorful beads, and the Holy Spirit (who never takes sides) later denied having anything to do with Porter's late-game interception; she didn't tip the ball, she didn't blow on it, and she turned right around and told God, "You're the one who gave him that athletic ability. I had nothing to do with it!"
Meanwhile St. Paul, in the second row, cheerfully broke every shellfish law in Leviticus. The gumbo in heaven is heavenly.
Josh Indiana
Josh, Ormonde Plater is my original source in his comment to another post of mine:
ReplyDeleteOrmonde Plater said...
Hey, Anonymous, you should have come to my church. Only one parishioner (named Drew Brees) wasn't there.
February 7, 2010 4:33 PM
I did no further search.
I quoted Brees' words after the game at the Episcopal Café. At the interception, I went crazy. Your account of what God did and didn't do in the game is lovely.
Given what this team has meant to south Louziana, I found listening to the game a strange spiritual moment.
Josh, exactly. That's what I tried to convey to my readers when I said that a win for the Saints was about more than a football game.
From what I saw on TV of the parade in New Orleans on Tuesday, Brees was a delight as he rode the float.