"C'mon son."

If you want to be scared, be scared. If you want to watch a good game where your team is favored to win, watch a good game where your team is favored to win.

Personally, I think it makes the fanbase look bad, when people from other places log on to these forums and read that the hometown fans of one of the great teams of the modern NFL era, are "scared" every other week. I really do think that a lot of people were traumatized by events that happened in the wayback when, in their formative years of the Saints or whatever. I mean who of us wasn't. And I dunno, maybe they're still thinking it's all a house of cards, an illusion, waiting for it to collapse at any second. They're totally into the team, they are great fans, but in the back of their mind it's like they're nervously looking for the first sign of weakness or failure, so they can go back into their comfortable shell of their parents' "same ole Saints" or something. Well I don't buy into that at all. We are too far past that now. I reject that kind of thinking. Just look at the facts -- look at the talent, look at the numbers, the record, the coach, look at the way the team looks on the field, in the huddle, or when they're running out of the tunnel, their history in tough games -- no need to put it in macho lingo, or call people's fandom into question, but there is NO reason for a fan of the Saints to be "scared" of ANY team in the NFL, period. Yeah, they may lose, but there's no reason not to be confident going in there, no reason to be worrying that the sky is going to fall.

So I guess all the concerns were NOT unfounded heh?