THE NEW ORLEAN SAINTS & THEIR FANS/PEOPLE OF NEW ORLEANS
good for you with last night's ''statement''. i was pulling for the saints to win , not because i'm a saints fan or because they were up against the overblown vick; simply because you people/americans deserved it. i was blown away by the score (checked in right before halftime) . that was a team i saw out there, maybe the best, most unselfish example of a team that i've ever seen after 38 years of watching football. mike freeman from cbssportsline.com couldn't have said it better when he noted that '
No team might have beaten the Saints on this night. Not the 1960s Green Bay Packers or the Joe Montana San Francisco 49ers. No team....a truly joyous and unforgettable night in which everyone, for a short time, was a Saints fan.
i know for a couple hours, i was . and coming from this yankee, that takes a lot. i'll add that last night, the saints were
America's Team.
sidenote: while watching a report on reggie bush's pre pro career work with the survivors of katrina i became beyond enraged when i heard one survivor ask reggie (who was handing out boxes of food) if ''
they had water this time''. a freakin' year later and some people/americans can't even get drinking water. lets see some of the politicians we voted to represent us, truly represent us by standing at the front of that line, the first to hand out not only food and water but trust and hope in our goverment.