My favourite teams are the Seattle Seahawks first because of proximity, primarily, and the Dallas Cowboys for reasons I don’t even understand.
Normally, when my two teams are knocked out of the playoffs I lose interest. I need an emotional reason to maintain the desire to watch a game.
However the story of the Saints comeback particularly in light of the disaster that confronted New Orleans citizens and fans after Katrina, makes me feel an intense desire to see them accomplish a Superbowl victory in their own city. For now, the outcome of the next Saints game against Chicago is more important than the situation in Iraq.
Ditto Gangster Octopus…I’d like to see them make it, but for their high-power offense style of game that I enjoy watching first, and the whole Katrina element second.
I’m really hoping for a Saints/Colts Super Bowl, but once we get there, I’ll probably be rooting for Manning to finally get his ring.
I am rooting for the Saints in this game, but it has nothing to do with Katrina. I am an eagles fan, and I prefer the team who beat my team to win the next game.
Eagles fan here. I was sick to death of all that “New Orleans has suffered enough, wouldn’t it be great if they won?” bullshit that we were tortured with leading up to the game. I’ll admit that during the heat of the game I wished a hurricane on the city again (I’m not proud of it–but I told you I’m an Eagles fan, didn’t I?). Now that the heat of the moment has passed (though I’ll be eating my heart out for some time now), I guess it would be okay if New Orleans got to enjoy a Super Bowl after everything they’ve been through. That wouldn’t be horrible, I guess. I mean, it’s not like they’re the Cowboys or the Giants, right?
There. If that wasn’t a rousing endorsement, I don’t know what is.
I’m a middling football fan at best, but I always cheer for teams which are underdogs, have super-devoted hard-luck fanbases, or what have you.
So of the four remaining teams, the two I’d like to see win are the Bears and Saints. Thus, I will ignore next weekend’s playoff games entirely and cheer for the Bears/Saints vs. the Colts/Patriots in the Super Bowl.
Giants fan here. In the Saints/Bears game I will root for the Saints. After living through the 85 Bears and the “Superbowl Shuffle” I would root against them if they were playing the Al Qaeda Bombers. If it is a Pats Saints/Superbowl I’d root for the Saints. In a Colts/Saints game I’ll probably root for the Colts just because I want Peyton to get a ring and we won’t have to hear about it anymore.
I’m a 49er fan, and choose my second choice in the playoffs mostly by who’s farthest west. This year, however, I am rooting for the Saints, but I am also a Payton Manning fan and I want to see him win, too.
Above all: anybody but the Patriots (even the Cowboys would have been preferable).
I’ve been a Saints fan over 30 years. I remember Archie, Conrad Dobler, Muncie and Galbreth, The Dome Patrol–Jackson, Johnson, Mills, & Swilling, Eric Martin, Danny Obrahmawitz (butchered the man’s name there), a mummified Kenny Stable, the shattered remains of Earl Campbell, Jim Dumbrowski, Stan “The Sheriff” Brock, Bum Phillips, the Ditka fiasco with Williams, Dalton Hilliard, George Rogers, Jim Mora, Morten Andersen, the paper bags worn on our heads. Yes, this is a sweet year. Only the second playoff win in team history. Our first ever appearance in the NFC Championship. A real shot at the Super Bowl.
I’m not sure I can adequately express how good it feels to finally…finally…have the team do so well. What a great year.
That “geaux” thing is gonna cost your team Q-rating points. Just tellin’ ya.
Frankly, if I could not root against the Yankees in 2001, I can root for the Saints in 2006-07. It’ll be doubly-precious seeing Peyton blow yet another shot at the ring… this time against Pop’s perennial loser. Bet that’ll make for some uncomfortable Manning family one-liners from now on…
“You’re just like your father! You don’t pick up after yourself, you eat like a damn pig, you can’t pay the bills on time, and your teams always win championships after you leave them!”
“STFU, you prima-donna, at least me and Pops had the excuse that our teams sucked!” “Yeah? At least I didn’t take four years to learn how to spell M-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i, Eli!”
“Forcing your way out of San Diego right before they get good: $3,000,000. Getting your ass handed to you every Sunday by the NFL, and the rest of the week by the NYC press: $25,000,000. Watching your brother sail to 2 MVP awards and an appearance on the cover of Madden while sitting on the couch in January: Priceless.”
Another Vikings fan here pulling for da Bears. Although I love the city of New Orleans, I’ll be in Chicago on the day of the Superbowl and I figure that the bars will be hopping.
I am a Bears fan. I hope the Saints lose by three touchdowns, and miss their flight home. Oh, and that Reggie Bush and Marques Colston are both bruised badly!
My wife’s a Purdue grad, and loves to watch Drew (the ‘open parenthesis’) Brees. I have heard so much more about him that I care to.
I also wish severe bruising on the following:
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[li]Rasta-Man Harris (CB)[/li][li]Deuce McAllister (I think the bruising may be a foregone conclusion…NOT a finesse back)[/li][li]Punter Weatherford (even though he’s an ex-Illini)[/li][li]Kicker-whatever-his-name-is.[/li][li]The rest of the Saints, including Sean Payton (maybe Rexy will drill him whiel throwing it out of bounds).[/li][li]48% of Saints fans.[/li][/ol]
Tired of equating the Saints to a “team of destiny” because they had some bad weather (I know that’s evil…file me under “Eagles-fan-type”. I’ll be nicer after next Sunday.
The Saints are a great story, I always liked them, going back to the Pat Swilling days, because of the cool black and gold and that fleur-de-lis. They always had style. If they played the Colts in the Super Bowl, I’m not sure who I’d root for. But I’ve been pulling for them most of the year.
