The brown paper bags that Saints fans used of war because of a losing season need to be brought back because of the utter shame General Manager Mickey Loomis has brought to the Saints. He has made it embarrassing to be a New Orleans Saints fan. First, there is the bounty scandal, which to an extent I have no problem with because the hits were legal, I just hate that they took out the likes of Kurt Warner and Peyton Manning. Now what WAS surprising is that New Orleans didn't call for heads to roll when it was found out that Peyton was taken out by a legal hit, because he is from New Orleans and essentially, blood - as in family. That's the only one that I have an issue with but what really gets my goat is that Sean Payton tried to cover up what was already a well known fact. IDIOT! This resulted in the Saints losing Head Coach Sean Payton for the year ( even though there has/had been a push from Saint fans to have his suspension reduced, if not just done away with all together), Assistant Coach Joe Vitt is gone for 6 games and Mickey Loomis got an 8 game suspension. Then there is a franchise-tag slapped on Drew Brees and there is still NO contract. And NOW Mickey Loomis is being accused by ESPN of listening in on opposing coaches plays and the Feds and Louisiana State police are investigating. Lord, what did we do to deserve this ? I mean really, who the blue blazes has it in for the New Orleans Saints ? Was somebody fired and didn't particularly like that idea so they decided to bring the Saints down with them? Or is Mickey Loomis that stupid? This all so.. ARGH!!...ridiculous.

The 'Aints are back

LSU vs Alambama

  If you're for the LSU Tigers I hope you get a kick out of this post. If you're rooting for 'Bama and get offended, that's life. You may also like ro read this post that I had done a few months back. It's entitled "Football Season" and the second paragraph deals with LSU and Alabama. http://mishasblue.blogspot.com/2011/08/football-season.html

   Okay the big game is Saturday and I know I am late putting things together for it but... so what! At least I'm not doing this on Sunday. So it's time to decorate:

Yes Nick, LSU is commin' for you. So you better run. Which if memory serves me correct, you're REALLY good at running... away. You know just like you did with the Miami Dolphins.

  Oh! You say you want to go get into some comfprtable clothes? Well, all right that's fine.

Hey Coach, are you SURE you want to wear THAT?  No? Good! Okay so you're going to go change your clothes again? No problem.

GOOD Lord, Nick go put some decent clothes on! Please! 

Whatever! I give up.

Yep that's about all your good for.

NFL Season

  Tonight is the official start of the NFL season, no more pre-season games, this is for all the glory. The first game up is between last years Super Bowl winners, the Green Bay Packers and the New Orleans Saints who won the Super Bowl in 2009. So the game is going to be on NBC at 8:30 eastern/ 7:30 Central at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wisconsin. I'm going to hope the Saints win but I am not going to hold my breath. For me my favorite professional football team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, I think mainly because that is the first team I as consciously aware of as a toddler. I don't know if it is because of Terry Bradshaw (God bless him, but I hope not) or the Mean Joe Green Coca-Cola commercial, actually I think it was in fact the commercial that did it for me. Then I will go with the New Orleans Saints, because of the region in which I live. I know for the first 14 years of my life they had a losing season, all the way back to their inception in 1966 and so it wasn't until 1987 under Coach Jim Mora, that the Saints had their very FIRST winning season. To this day I still can not believe that they have had winning seasons, let alone won the Super Bowl! But whatever. I miss the paper bags over the head, Moses showing up and the Pope showing up. Yes these were people dressed up in character. Plus thee was this one guy who went around to different sporting events wearing a rainbow colored wig and holding signs with Bible scripture references, such as John 3:16. I wonder what happened to him?

  So may the best team win!

 GO STEELERS!

GO SAINTS

Football Season

In 13 days , September 3,2011, that magnificent thing called college football starts. Yes there are some clouds hanging over it before the season begins: Ohio State is awaiting a decision from the NCAA on ethics violations and hoping that the university's self-imposed punishment of vacating all of their 2010 wins will be enough, we shall see; now we have the University of Miami and their scandal, which makes Ohio State's scandal priggish by comparison, prostitutes, money, bounties on opposing players, jewelry and more.They may face the NCAA death penalty which is a suspension of an entire football season. If it wasn't for this scandal would anybody even care about the university of Miami? then there is L.S.U. and there problem that happened Friday night, a bar fight that a few players may have been involved in because the players have lawyered up and have postponed talking to the police until Tuesday.

  Now with that being said I am still looking forward to this college football season. Nothing says college football like shorter days, 105 degree heat index and hoping to set off a Richter scale with all the noise coming from the football stadium. Setting off the Richter scale was done in 1988 at L.S.U. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_Game. We in the South, for the most part, LOVE our football games and going tailgating. I mean where else can you make friends with your enemies? Unless your name happens to be Nick Saban who is coaching against L.S.U. and who also happens to also be a lying coward. Yes some of us are still royally ticked off at him for taking the head coaching job in Alabama. That sorry sucker knew better than to take a job with one of the main rivals of L.S.U. it's an unwritten rule. Telling the world that "No I'm not interested in the coaching job in Alabama. I'm happy coaching the Miami Dolphins", then the next thing you know he's half way out of the state and on the phone with Dolphins officials telling them he had taken the job as head coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide. But L.S.U. has Les "the Mad Hatter" Miles and they're doing good, inspite of and despite of Jordan Jefferson. To me and some others I know, he is so overrated it's ridiculous. But hopefully L.S.U. will have a good season this year. They just need to get this mess with the bar fight taken care of and I don't mean having the police cover it up either.

Okay, ANYWAY... I admit to not knowing to much about football like the scoring, I mean are they scoring 2 points or 6 points? And where in the blue blazes are those 6 points coming from anyway? Jiminy Cricket! Now I do know that a field goal is worth 2 points and that sometimes a touchdown is worth 2 points and sometimes it's worth 6 points and that the teams have 4 tries to get the ball down the field to score. I guess that is pretty much a football game but I like to watch them knock the tar out of each other and make some nice catches.

  But then there are the fans and  a fair amount of fans will be there on Friday evening after work and school with their motorhomes tailgating for Saturday's game. They will get out their portable grills, camping stoves, beer coolers etc. and invite the neighbors over, even if they happen to be the opposing teams fans, and cook, drink and be merry. At least in the SEC (Southeastern Conference) that is what is done.I would like to imagine that other football conferences do the same thing. But then  as the saying goes: In the East football is a cultural exercise, in the Midwest  it's cannibalism,  in the West it is a tourist attraction, but in the South football is a religion and every Saturday is it's Holy Day.Plus I recently heard that the late great Alabama coach, Paul"Bear" Bryant could then be considered it's pope. Never heard that before but I can go with it.

Too bad the coaches don't dress and act like Bear Bryant did. Seems that they have become commercial sell outs, but that just maybe the nature of the beast.