Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

That's kinda' how I remembered that old saying going.:lolup:

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

Welcome back and I was just joking about the ice cream cone, it was 4.50 seconds and yes AG my brain was frozen like a block of ice in my brain. What did he just say?

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

If only the players would protest on their own dime and time.

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

welcome back Noog.

My first Saints board was Site-X, which dripped with politics.
I could not figure out why the atmosphere was so intensely
nasty there--so full of hate, and later I figured it out.

1. The most prominent
posters were extremists, never mind which side.

2. Most of the prominent, loud voices there were mama's basement
caliber nerds. I was a bit stung, because they said things there to me
that no Falcons fan ever said, until I realized, these were people
who had been picked on in school, and apparently figured me to be a "Jock."

--- I sat out 2017, myself, and I still stand by that decision.

I came back for my friends. I've accumulated a large group of friends, who root with me, 30 years, after my initial Saints fandom in the shadow of NWLA, where I thought I was the only Saints fan in Louisiana.

Football used to be my LIFE.

I came back for New Orleans.

The players? meh. they come and go. I used to be a HUGE player apologist. I still hate it when people hate a player for being injured. Should people hate you, if you get in a car wreck? And I rose up when someone hated on players for their money.

I think its indictitive of my historic love of players, that it took me a cold shower of facts, to allow myself to believe that OJ Simpson could ever do anything wrong.

I dont know. Maybe we'll have a club of old NFL fans, the way the Baltimore Colts still had a fan club, after they moved to Indy. But these guys, including many of you are my friends... not just on the internet... I know a dozen or so posters here in Real Life-- We've had numerous get togethers, and Ive been as insane as any Saints fan. I was one notch in my fandom, below a costumed stadium character, who dances in the aisles. The change in that should be a case study in marketing and public relations. I know I'm not alone.

Now? I honestly dont know if I'll ever Love the players, the way I used to. At this point, I dont trust them. I'm certainly not going to put myself in debt to support them, the way I used to. I didnt leave these guys. They left me.

I'm also not going to give the NFL, itself any money via merchandise, etc.

For now, I"m back, because I was a Saints fan, before these protesting players were born. I was a New Orleans fan, before any of this, and I Love Louisiana, and if something makes people in Louisiana happy, I'm for it. I'll root for the colors, I guess. I'll root for the team, I guess.

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

I'm gonna make a principled stand!

Gonna boycott sumthin!

This is boring and no one cares.

I'm gonna submit a lengthy post about basically nothing to try and draw attention to myself when no one noticed or cared in the first place.

Mission accomplished!

I love the Saints, so that makes it all good.

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

Peredone?
dont talk sideways.
If thats directed at me, lets hear your grievance, Ese.

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

Not you.
I didn't even read your post.

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

Black and Gold SuperBowl!!!!

Re: I've changed my mindset and I'm coming back
 

(say this like the drivers license office lady) mmmm. hmm.
Good. I didnt think so.
Cuz that would be S.R.-snitty-14-yr-old-girl stuff.
Glad we dont have that.