In This Era, the Saints Don’t Make the Rules

WhoDat!656 · 09-29-2014, 06:10 PM

The best summation of the Saints’ zeitgeist between 2009 and 2011 was the classic Moosedenied post “We make the rules, pal.” The line was an expression of confidence: 2009 quickly became about watching a great team win a championship, not about wondering if that team was great or could win a championship, and that feeling bled into the next two seasons, buoyed by the Saints’ all-the-records offense in 2011. Here’s how we felt, said Grandmaster Wang:

We’re in this thing for us. Nobody else. Definitely not you. And if our achieving those goals leaves you humiliated and outraged, that’s your problem. Deal with it. Clutch your pearls if you must, but you’d be better served to grow a pair instead.

All true, and not even the Saints’ playoff losses in Seattle and San Francisco after the 2010 and 2011 regular seasons could put a stop to it. We’d reload and, like a hurricane that seems to ignore the atmospheric conditions and steering currents around it, do whatever the hell we wanted. Nothing, not even the antics of Marshawn Lynch or Vernon Davis, that happened on the field changed our mind. But our mindset doesn’t affect the win column.

So the NFL’s commissioner changed the mindset of the guy who does.

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WhoDat!656 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Shreveport,Louisiana Posts: 16,085	In This Era, the Saints Don’t Make the Rules The best summation of the Saints’ zeitgeist between 2009 and 2011 was the classic Moosedenied post “We make the rules, pal.” The line was an expression of confidence: 2009 quickly became about watching a great team win a championship, not about wondering if that team was great or could win a championship, and that feeling bled into the next two seasons, buoyed by the Saints’ all-the-records offense in 2011. Here’s how we felt, said Grandmaster Wang: We’re in this thing for us. Nobody else. Definitely not you. And if our achieving those goals leaves you humiliated and outraged, that’s your problem. Deal with it. Clutch your pearls if you must, but you’d be better served to grow a pair instead. All true, and not even the Saints’ playoff losses in Seattle and San Francisco after the 2010 and 2011 regular seasons could put a stop to it. We’d reload and, like a hurricane that seems to ignore the atmospheric conditions and steering currents around it, do whatever the hell we wanted. Nothing, not even the antics of Marshawn Lynch or Vernon Davis, that happened on the field changed our mind. But our mindset doesn’t affect the win column. So the NFL’s commissioner changed the mindset of the guy who does. In This Era, the Saints Don't Make the Rules \| B&G
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