Category: Sports

Please notice how much I know about football

I thought it we would be fun to look back at my preseason playoff predictions so everyone can see how smart I am … except for the Lions.
My present corrections are in parenthesis.

2006-07 NFL Playoff Picture
These teams will be in the NFL Playoffs next year.

NFC
Falcons (Saints)
Lions (Bears)
Giants (Eagles)
Seahawks
Wild Card
Dallas
Saints (Falcons)

AFC
Chiefs (Chargers)
Colts
Patriots
Bengals (Ravens)
Wild Card
Broncos
Jacksonville

Saints on TV

Once again, the Saints are going to be on the TV here in Atlanta. This is about the fourth time this season. I think we got on the air once last year, in that home game we played in the Meadowlands. This is great for me, but I’m starting to miss eating wings and watching the Buffalo games at the bar.

However, the fact that I don’t have to argue with that jerk of a manager up at the bar to get the Saints on a TV makes up for not being able to see Brian, Kris, and Wes cry every Sunday.

Go Bills.

This post is mainly to point out how cool this site is: http://www.gribblenation.net/nflmaps/.

Fumble

I know that the Saints are regular readers of elbuzzard, so here goes. We wasted another great performance by Drew Brees and Marques Colston yesterday with all the stupid fumbling and dropped passes. Terrance Copper had a real nice fumble as we were driving to tie the game at the end of the fourth.

Copper

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Who Dat?

Payton

I can’t fault Sean Payton for taking those knees, killing the clock, and having Carney kick the field goal to win. But I couldn’t get memories of John Carney in the Jacksonville game out of my head. What a way to finish the game.

The last Saints possession was an 8 minute drive. Want to beat the Eagles? Easy. Just don’t give their offense the ball and eat up the clock. That’s Dave’s strategy in Madden. Of course, it never really works for Dave because he doesn’t have the talent to sustain the drive.

Ron Jaworski picked the Saints as his number 4 team in football on SportsCenter, right below only the Bears, Chargers, and Colts. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the media treat the Saints like that. The talking heads are actually talking about the way the Saints are playing, rather than their “emotional performance.”  Are we not a novelty anymore?  Are we legitimate?
I almost wish we didn’t have a bye next week. Bring on the Ravens. Let’s get another win over one of the “good” teams. Oh wait, Kyle Boller is QB in Baltimore again. I bet they aren’t considered good anymore.

Philly’s full of friendly friends that will love you like a brother

Philly

Dave, Leslie, and I had a nice conversation last night about the sports fans in Philadelphia. Poor Leslie, she tried so hard to defend them, but it’s hard to defend the City of Brotherly Love when they cheered Michael Irvin as he lay on the field with a spinal injury. They also threw iceballs at Santa Claus.

Anyway, apparently the Lincoln Financial “Fan of the Game” was handcuffed and thrown out of the last Eagles game. This is from the blog Philadelphia Will Do:

I was at last night’s game (my uncle’s got season tix and he gave me this game as a graduation present). Anyway, we happened to be in the row with the LINCOLN FINANCIAL FAN OF THE GAME, which, as you know, gets selected at random somehow and receives a prize…. I don’t know what happened after that, but a couple minutes later we heard a commotion and saw Eagles security in our section. Turns out they were slapping the cuffs on a guy and taking him out… hey… THEY’RE EJECTING THE FAN OF THE GAME! Yeah, there he goes — a metaphor for Philly sports if there ever was one.

Apparently the guy was running around trying to get the crowd riled up in the 4th quarter and pushing an old man around. I don’t know if you watched the game on TV, but that game was over by the 4th quarter. The Eagles were fully in control and were scoring on the Packers at will.

I love Philadelphia. I wonder if they still have Iggles Court in the new stadium?

This post constitutes my contribution to the Terrell Owens v. Donovan McNabb media hype this week.

23-3 Saints Win!! Saints Win!!

Saints entrance

Wow. What a game that was. It was great to be there in the Superdome for the greatest Saints game since “Hakim dropped it! Hakim dropped the ball!” I’ve never seen lines like that at the Dome before. So many people.

For some reason, they didn’t close off the streets around the Dome. Poydras was shut down anyway, just by the masses of people. As my mom and I walked down the street, we watched a cop futilely trying to get people out of the street, saying “THE STREET ISN’T CLOSED PEOPLE. THE STREET ISN’T CLOSED.” The people standing shoulder to shoulder in the middle of the street watching Cowboy Mouth play on a stage on the corner said differently. There was no where else to go. Poydras was closed.

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The Sacredome

I like to read the New Orleans bloggers for my info, rather than the Times-Picayune or nola.com. They are certainly more passionate about the city, and have done an excellent job of documenting the experiences of the people in the city on the ground now, from their own point-of-view.

Right now of course, the the topic du jour is the Saints and the upcoming Monday Night Football game against the Falcons, which I am so proud to say I will be in attendance. My Dalton Hillard jersey is ready.

Oyster, from Your Right Hand Thief, put up a great post on the Superdome (or the Sacredome as he calls it) yesterday. He dispells some of the stories that I’m sure we will hear this weekend about the things that went on in the Dome during the storm, stories which gave the rest of the country reason to ignore the city:

New Orleanians are not “savages” nor “Somalians”. When everything breaks down we do not rape children and go on mass killing sprees like the media reported; we are not “animalistic” like our mayor said, we do not form “thug armies” in desperate circumstances, we are not anarchists…. But, after Katrina, America was ready to believe the worst about us, as if most New Orleanians were depraved criminals at heart.

The country needs to understand that this is NEW ORLEANS, and that neither hurricane nor flood nor FEMA can stop us from dancing.

This Monday will be a fascinating experience, I’m sure. The fact that the people of the Gulf Coast managed to buy every single season ticket for the first time ever is amazing. Sure, there are more important things to think about than football going on in New Orleans, but the Saints really have given the country another opportunity to look at New Orleans, this time in a positive light.

Hopefully. As long as the media gets the facts straight. Forgive me if I don’t have too much faith that they will, given their track record. Sorry Dave, I know you’re part of the media. How about giving this MNF game an editorial in your AJC blog?