daviddrake2

Smitty,

I can relate. My senior year of high school I was dating a girl whose father happily gave me a dozen prime 40 yard line tickets for every home game that year. He had purchased them for clients, but no one wanted them because this was during the infamous \'Aints\' season -- the \'80-\'81 season.

Every week I would invite all of my friends, but could never get more than a couple to take me up on the free seats on any given Sunday, even though the offer included all the free beer you could drink and various munchies from the University Club in the Dome.

So, as any enterprising 18 year old would do, I always arrived at the Dome at least an hour before kick-off and did my best to sell the extra tickets for anything I could get for them. On a good day, I might make $50, but usually I was lucky to make $10 or $20 and give the majority of the tickets away to anyone who would take them (half of the time, that was homeless guys who would just try try to sell them for a buck or two rather that suffering through a likely defeat in the Dome).

Still, we all had a great time. I enjoyed being there, even though we lost almost every game that year. And I\'ve never had as good seats since.

Hopefully, we\'ll never have to deal with another season quite so trying, but if we do, I also hope that there are more SAINTS fans like me that will still brave the shame (I never wore a bag on my head) and support our team, no matter what.

Go SAINTS!!!!!

David in Houston

Go SAINTS!!!!!

David in Houston