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Listen to Momma

jeanpierre

...and as all the Saints fans slept off the Nyquil during the offseason, visions of Keenan Lewis denying Ryan to Jones danced in their heads...

Rugby Saint II

"Mummy knows best." Boris Karlov

UK_WhoDat

You have gotta feel real deep for he and his family. I cannot wait for his familt to enjoy his first big Saints play

SloMotion

... maybe not KC so much. I luv it when a hometown boy plays for the local team, .

TheOak

God bless mothers

homerj07

Go man go

papz

METAIRIE — San Diego, Oakland, Tennessee, Philadelphia and Atlanta — especially Atlanta — never had a chance.

Not when free agent cornerback Keenan Lewis was being peppered with texts from his mother, Muriel, to “Sign! Sign! Sign!” while he was at Saints headquarters. The O. Perry Walker graduate was there to negotiate what ended up being a five-year, $26.3 million contract — $10 million of it guaranteed with a $6 million signing bonus — negating any need to visit other would-be suitors.

But Muriel’s urgency was not just because the Saints were offering a plum deal, one that enabled her son to surprise her with a house for Mother’s Day. And it wasn’t just because the Lewis family is full of diehard Saints fans who couldn’t bear to see Keenan, who spent the first four years of his career with Pittsburgh, playing for anyone but his hometown team.

The real reason was that Kalise Genie Lewis — Keenan and wife Dannel’s 2-year-old daughter — would be close enough for Maw-Maw to see her whenever she wants.

“Yeah, she put the pressure on me,” Keenan recalled after the Saints’ Thursday organized team activity. “But I’ve always wanted to play for the Saints, too. Before I was drafted, I said some things about it which were disrespectful to other teams. But that’s the way I felt then, and I still do.”

Lewis’ dream of one day being a Saint also was the goal of the Rev. Joseph Lewis, Keenan’s grandfather. He died in 2004, the year Keenan signed with Oregon State.

“When Keenan was little, his grandfather would tell him, ‘If you play as hard as you can, one day you can play for the Saints,’ ” Muriel said. “He would have so much joy about this.”

Keenan agreed.

“He was the biggest Saints fan in the world,” he said. “Since he died, I’ve dedicated every game I played to him. I sure will now.”

Read more: New cornerback Keenan Lewis feeling right at home with Saints | Saints | The Advocate — Baton Rouge, LA

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Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

All little common sense goes a long way.

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Keenan Lewis feeling right at home with Saints. Come on in and sit down and have a beer.

|Mitch|

Just think; IF Atlanta would have signed him, his grandfather would probably still be rolling in his grave.