Rugby Saint II

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

CheramieIII

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?

Thirty3

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

skymike

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.

RockyMountainSaint

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.

skymike

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

RockyMountainSaint

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

B_Dub_Saint

Black and Gold SuperBowl!!!!

skymike

(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.