With all this evacuation nonsense…I haven’t been as astute as I’d like to the New Orleans Saints. Last week, I listened to the game from Houston on WWL. It was AWESOME. I’m so proud of those guys for pulling such a great effort out in the season opener with everything as crazy as it has been back home.

My eyes welled up for a second thinking about what being a Saints fan means for me. The New Orleans Saints are the underdogs in NFL world. We don’t expect our team to come out and win the Superbowl, not even make the playoffs. It’s not that they don’t have the talent. It’s more like some kind of voodoo curse the team has. That’s what makes it so awesome when we do win…it’s like we’re defying gravity or something. That Sunday it was like telling the world, “we might be down, but we’re on our way back up.”

Then came week 2. Wow, is this 2004 all over again? Mistake, after mistake, after mistake. It’s like a row of dominoes - when one falls, they all fall. This is going to be the challenge for this great football team all season long - consistent play. It’s ok to make mistakes. It’s going to happen. But it’s almost like it’s “all or nothing” with the Saints. They either play like Superbowl contenders or a bunch of rookies with their heads up their rear. The attitude needs to change from “Oh crap, Joe Horn dropped a pass,” to, “Man, Joe dropped that pass - so I got his back, I’m gonna catch mine.”

Come on fellas…

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Thanks, Joe Horn and the other Saints players for visiting our people in the Astrodome. Thanks for keeping the spirit of New Orleans alive. Read the article on WWLTV’s website by clicking here.

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