Saints Win
by John B on Feb 7, 2010 10:19 PM EST
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PrintI honestly didn't have a rooting interest at the start of the game. Both of these teams seemed pretty likable to me. Somewhere in the second half I started pulling for the Saints. Seeing a tortured franchise and fan base finally break through gives me hope for the future. Maybe that can be us one day.
The way they did it gives me even more hope. They found a brilliant coach who convinced his team and fans the past meant nothing. This coach was an expert using X's and O's on one side of the ball. They also found a franchise quarterback.
I know we'll hear a lot about Hurricane Katrina in the coming days. A lot of people will play Devil's Advocate and say football is meaningless compared to that event. They're right, but nobody is saying otherwise. This game gives a lot of people who have had a disproportionate amount of pain in their lives over the past few years a brief shining moment to feel good about something. It won't heal a city.
PS Eric Mangini looks brilliant for running Jonathan Vilma out of town.
PPS Nobody ever questions them on this, but can anybody honesty tell me at this point the Chargers kept the right quarterback four years ago?
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Good stuff JB.
Gotta love Payton’s moxie. Vilma was an absolute stud tonite. And Brees was disgustingly good. That was a great game, and you can’t help but feel good for the city of New Orleans.
WHO DAT?!?!?!!!
Payton was something else with those calls.
Imagine if the Giants had kept him? That new stadium wouldn’t be big enough to hold him and Rex.
"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore
What's up with Mis-Spelling Manning's name?
Isn’t it spelled “Peyton”?
But all in all, it was a great game. :) I enjoyed it.
But I enjoyed even MORE considering that :
1.) The Saints just gave us a Blueprint on how to beat the Colts or at least slow them down.
2.) The Colts lost which meant : No Perfect Season, No Superbowl Win, No NOTHING (baaahahahahaaha!!).
and
3.) The second-guessing that will likely occur by the Indy media and their fans who came away from this entire Season and Postseason with NOTHING To show for it.
After all the trash-talk that the Colts gave the Jets HOURS AFTER the game was over, the old saying “You reap what you sow” came to a head….I call it Karma…..
…But some others rightly call it VILMA!!!!!!! Johnathan VILMA, that is.
Congrats to Vilma. That’s probably the only good thing Mangini has ever done for a Player when he chased Vilma out of Jets Nation to New Orleans.
Oh and,
what happened stampede blue? where are you guys at now? oh that’s right, in the same exact class as my jets. karma keeps the score even.
If Rivers doesn’t hold out during Camp, Brees might be a 2nd stringer or out of the NFL by now. It was obvious the Chargers organization had given up on him by drafting Manning/Rivers.
Plus I don’t think they could have afforded to keep both of them on the roster. You also can’t take away anything Rivers has done, I mean playing in that AFC Championship game with a messed up ACL and nearly upsetting the Pats.
I think they are both talented and both ended up in good situations for them. Brees could have ended up in Miami and failing like the rest of the team ended up doing.
"So basically, the Stats make no sense whatsoever."
Vilma came on, he missed a few tackles early in that game that led to some big gains, soon enough though he started playing like an absolute stud, and his pursuit to the ball was absolutely fantastic. Was wearing my Vilma Jets top and rooting for the Saints, so delighted that it turned out the way it did.
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CBS cut to him on the sidelines right after
it happened and his face was bright pink with embarrassment.
I mentioned it somewhere else...
It’s starting to seem like San Diego is becoming a little bit of a cursed franchise. I mean they have been a really good team (even before letting Brees go)…but when you look at what happened in 2 out of the last 3 Superbowls there has been a QB that they let go one way or another (I know Eli forced his way out but still). The worst thing that can happen next is if they let Tomlinson go and the next team he hitches up with wins the Superbowl based on big plays by him (granted he is old by HB standards). Other than that it just seemed like it was the Saints time. As mentioned hopefully our time is coming soon too! Congrats go out to the Saints because they earned it!
There is another side to that coin
The Chargers had the # 1pick and traded it to Atlanta for their # 1 and # 2, which became Vick for Tomlinson and Brees. That was a not too shabby deal.
"I've been trying transcendental meditation, and that helps me be passive and wait on the curve. I've got to find something else to hit the slider." - George (The Stork) Theodore
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