All Saints Day

I'm sure by now you've heard the good news. The Bless you Boys aka New Orleans Saints are the World Champions. I've been a fan of the New York Yankees, North Carolina Tar Heels basketball and other teams that have won championships in recent years but I always felt like I was a bandwagon fan. It's not hard to root for a team that has double digit championships before you were born. The Saints winning makes me feel like I had 200 shares of Apple stock from when the floppy disk was hot and never sold out. When Tracy Porter intercepted Manning's pass and took it to the house, my phone essentially exploded. People I hadn't spoken to in YEARS were sending congrats and asking if I was crying YET, drunk YET etc. I actually wasn't any of the above. I didn't know how to react. I'll admit, fluid was sitting on the edge of my eye like a first time parachuter but there was still 3 min + before the game was over. (It's quite possible I pulled a throat muscle but yelling louder than I did the time Hulk Hogan appeared unannounced at a wrestling show I attended). But, when it was all said and done, I didn't know whether to run into the streets slapping people with a fleur de leis, get somebody to pour gatorade on my head, or check my bank account for a sportsillustrated/nflshop.com/anything-superbowl-saints related run which, lets face it, is as inevitable as at least 20 kids being named "Drew" in Louisiana 9 months from now. The focus now shifts to next season and instead of "we need x, x, and x in order just contend"...the talk now is centered around what's needed to repeat. That is a problem every saints fan has been waiting for. Who Dat!

Here is a video of Drew Brees teaching the crowd (after victory parade) the pregame chant at a local bar.


Vegas has the Saints at 7 to 1 odds (4th best) to win next year....if you're into that sort of thing.