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Deadspin's why your team sucks, Saints edition. LSU and Louisiana related.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:17 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:17 pm
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For those that don't venture to saints talk.
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Louisiana is also the place writers go to train in all aspects of being a professional southerner: the arrogance, the liberal outrage, the overlong paeans to the food, the insistence that everyone outside of the Deep South has no idea how to live life correctly, the Jack White-ish brand of music snobbery, the mandatory "you've never been to a football game until you've been to an LSU night game" brag (LSU night games are pushed on people more than The Wire itself), and all the fricking vampires.
A small excerpt
For those that don't venture to saints talk.
quote:
Louisiana is also the place writers go to train in all aspects of being a professional southerner: the arrogance, the liberal outrage, the overlong paeans to the food, the insistence that everyone outside of the Deep South has no idea how to live life correctly, the Jack White-ish brand of music snobbery, the mandatory "you've never been to a football game until you've been to an LSU night game" brag (LSU night games are pushed on people more than The Wire itself), and all the fricking vampires.
A small excerpt
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 5:18 pm
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:22 pm to BOSCEAUX
I, too, have a facebook account.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:23 pm to BOSCEAUX
Well that was thorough. They are pretty bad at trying to be funny.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:29 pm to J Murdah
I think deadspin does a good job of poking fun the way a fan of that team would do it. Honestly 95% of what they say is true. Can't be mad if it's true.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:35 pm to BOSCEAUX
they're right in a sense.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 5:36 pm to BOSCEAUX
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The Saints love to present themselves as a cute little underdog franchise here to save a downtrodden-but-wonderful city. But at their core, they are still a heartless team run by a skinflint who essentially lucked into seeing his franchise become a beloved public institution just as he was poised to ship them out of town.
That sounds like a post from a falcon fan website.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:21 pm to tigerpimpbot
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"But at their core, they are still a heartless team run by a skinflint who essentially lucked into seeing his franchise become a beloved public institution just as he was poised to ship them out of town. The stadium is sponsored by Mercedes Benz, for f**k's sake."
The part after "heartless team" is absolutely correct. It's amazing to see the revisionist history surrounding Tom Benson.
I love the Saints and I'm a season-ticket holder, but I've never forgotten what Benson tried to do by almost moving the Saints permanently and I'll probably never forgive him, either. And for years, he was a penny-pinching miser when it came to the Saints. Lot of revisionist history now that he's supposedly Mr. New Orleans by keeping the Saints in town and buying the Pelicans. But if the NFL hadn't stopped him, he probably would have moved the Saints to San Antonio after 2005.
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 6:23 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 6:27 pm to cheo25
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And for years, he was a penny-pinching miser when it came to the Saints.
That was never true. He's always been a spender
We've been in the top 5 in player salaries for a long time.
People who say that just show they have no idea what they are talking about.
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But if the NFL hadn't stopped him, he probably would have moved the Saints to San Antonio after 2005.
And they would be in Jacksonville if he didn't buy the team. I hated what he might have done, but he also has a billion dollar business to think about.
He's one of the most influential people in New Orleans history. His good far far outweighs the bad
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 6:39 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 7:08 pm to BOSCEAUX
I laughed im not going to lie.
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