LKelley67

Sports teams can have rebuilding years but this is ridiculous -- New Orleans is rebuilding an entire city. The Saints were 3-13 last season, playing a regular away slate plus games in San Antonio and Baton Rouge. Considering NFL teams were .410 on the road in 2005, New Orleans' all-away finish seems less bad. Meanwhile, Tuesday Morning Quarterback continues to be amazed by the New Orleans-Jersey/A link. Last season the Giants were, before Katrina, the first team scheduled to appear at the Saints. This game was held in the Meadowlands, making the Giants the sole club in NFL annals to play nine regular-season home games, and helping grant the Giants the standings edge that gave them the NFC East title over Washington. (Had the Giants played the Saints in New Orleans in 2005 and lost, the Redskins would have won the division by tiebreaker.) A schedule formula determined years ago called for New Orleans to play at the Meadowlands in 2006. I remain scandalized that this game has not been shifted to New Orleans, paying back the Saints for one aspect of their 2005 handicap and paying back the rest of the league for the standings gift Jersey/A was granted in 2005. The Giants are the sentimental-favorite club of most NFL staffers at league headquarters on Park Avenue. You've got to suspect that if any other team except the Giants had been involved in this pairing oddity, that team would be playing seven home dates in 2006 and traveling to New Orleans for the Saints' extra home game.

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TallySaint

I understand the writer's sentiments. But whats done is done. Time to move on.



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yasoon

I would have at least seen that the NY game was played in NO, and two of the other games vs. the East were away games.

I see the writer's point, but at least don't make one of our away games back in NYC. The 9 home games with the proceeds from the Giants game going to the rebuilding effort would be sweet.

We were the first team to go in there after 9/11 and they made sure we didn't win that game. and the debacle last year with our fans getting heckled by those jackasses up there.

now, we get to go back. i think that sux and we should be able to host them and "give back" to them a bit.

RockyMountainSaint

OMG! That was such a crock of poo!
The Saints could have saved plane fare and stayed at home.
There was NO WAY the Saints were going to win that game.
It looked like the playoff game in "Remember the Titans" when the fix was in.
Haz actually recieved an (unsolicited) apology letter from the league officiating office!
Sorry we fu**ed you but try to understand the situation.
The Saints DOMINATED the Giants.
I hope we finally get a fair shake from the officials this year.
Not tilted in our favor but finally some equality in calls.

LKelley67

I'll take a little tilt if given vs. the dirty birds

D24pick

We'll win!