Nagin for Head Coach

Nagin blasts Saints owner for trying to move team

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor Ray Nagin disparaged Saints owner Tom Benson on Wednesday for working with San Antonio officials to permanently keep the NFL team in Texas.

The mayor’s comments came after the departures of two top Saints executives who were supportive of keeping the Saints in Louisiana. Nagin is concerned that San Antonio officials said publicly that Benson is working with them to relocate the franchise to Texas.

“We want our Saints, we may not want the owner back,” Nagin said while attending the reopening of Cafe Du Monde in the French Quarter.

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Lost passwords

I’ve been noticing that a lot of our users have been losing their passwords after registering.

Did you know that you don’t have to use the ugly password that is sent to you when you first register forever?

You can update your account here: https://www.elbuzzard.com/wp-admin/profile.php. The last two fields allow you to change your password to something a bit more personal, that you can remember a little easier.

I’ve also added a link to the profile editor in the sidebar to the right.

Rating the World

There’s a new feature on EBE, based on our dry erase board when Dave first came up to Atlanta. Leslie and Dave have been slacking in the posting department, so I’m hoping this will encourage them to get back on track.

We’ve got three new categories, which work kind of like a recomendation/rating/review system.

The original categories on the dry erase board were:

I have added:

It’s all pretty self-explanatory.

The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth

I’ve been listening to this song by the Clap Your Hands Say Yeah over and over and over. I just can’t get enough of lead singer Alec Ounsworth’s barely controlled/cracking vocal style. He reminds me of David Byrne, Frank Black, John Lydon, and the guy from Neutral Milk Hotel.

The Skin of My Yellow Country Teeth m4a – hosted by kissatlanta.com.

There’s more mp3s on the CYHSY website.

Jim and I call bullshit

from the ESPN Saints-Falcons game recap

“I’m telling you it was a flat-out bullshit call,” Haslett said in a remark that is likely to draw a fine from the NFL. He said the Saints ran the same play Atlanta had used a week earlier.
“They didn’t call it last week. We were pulling the guy to the outside and you’re allowed to pull as long as you’re moving forward,” he said.

You’re damn right it was a bullshit call, Jim.

Still, there is no excuse for losing that game. The Atlanta offense could not score the entire game. Blaming the refs for the loss because of a bullshit call is just as bad as blaming the loss to the Giants on the “home” game setup. Poor coaching (like when you sent the field goal unit on the field for a 51-yard attempt on third down with 10 seconds and a time out left) and poor playing (like when our offensive line let that rookie Falcon scoot through the line untouched to block the field goal attempt) is why we lost that game.

On a side note, I find it amusing that every single sports radio host and caller in Atlanta either does not mention that last penalty at all, or is outrageously praising the refs for doing the right thing at the right time and making the right call. Good job refs.