# New Orleans Saints - Rooting for Them ? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 15, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093 "2007-01-15T17:57:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/21 "2007-01-15T20:49:22Z")
[QUOTE=Stratocaster] We Eagles fans are like Mother Teresa. [/QUOTE] Yes, if she was suffering from roid rage, had a pocket full of batteries and was unable to prevent you from painfully tweaking her nipples. Then, yeah, I could see it. I began pulling for a Saints SuperBowl after their impressive dismantling of Dallas, despite being a longtime, diehard Cowboy fan. I figured we’d have a Saints/Chargers Superbowl. Now I’m pulling for Saints/Indy since we can’t have the Pats match too many of the Boys dynastic stats now, can we? ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/22 "2007-01-15T20:56:55Z")
I have been a fan of the Saints for a long time, but that’s mainly because I really like their uniforms. The color scheme, that nifty fleur-de-lis … very cool. ---
**Author:** ![Stratocaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stratocaster/32/16393_2.png) [@Stratocaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stratocaster)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/23 "2007-01-15T20:57:24Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Yes, if she was suffering from roid rage, had a pocket full of batteries and was unable to prevent you from painfully tweaking her nipples. Then, yeah, I could see it. [/QUOTE] Well, yeah. That’s what I meant. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/24 "2007-01-15T21:03:34Z")
Pats fan here, so obviously my allegiance is to them. If they lose to the Colts I’ll probably root for the Colts over the Bears, or the Saints over the Colts. I But the Pats won’t lose next week, so I’ll be rooting for the Pats in the Super Bowl. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/25 "2007-01-15T21:51:53Z")
Now that my beloved Chargers are out of the running ☹ I’ll be rooting for the Saints since I love the city of N.O. and have family there, and the Superdome was the first football stadium I’d ever been inside–not that sentimentality bears much weight, but I’ve got nothing connected to the other 3 (except ill will for the Pats: BOOOO!). ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Ashtar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@Lord\_Ashtar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Ashtar)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2007, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/26 "2007-01-15T21:54:07Z")
I’d like to root for the Saints, but I just can’t. I don’t want to see a first year coach win the Superbowl, because it’ll just give those impatient owners another reason to fire their coach every two or three years. “Well, if Sean Payton could do it in his first year, why can’t you?” ---
**Author:** ![Merkwurdigliebe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@Merkwurdigliebe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merkwurdigliebe)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/27 "2007-01-16T05:40:08Z")
WOOOOHOO! GEAUX SAINTS! Sorry, but I’m from MS, so it’s the closest thing I got. I’ve been a fan for my whole life I guess, and I’ll admit that I don’t watch football when the Saints suck, but when they don’t I do. I don’t switch allegiances. This only happens once every 6 years or so, so I’m very excited. And to the bears fan up above, I’m sorry but Deuce McAllister is the one who will be doing the bruising. That man is crazy strong. He’s a between the tackles kinda guy which is what makes him great. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/28 "2007-01-16T06:30:20Z")
I’ve been a hardcore Falcons fan my entire life (I’m still considering getting the tattoo), but the Saints are my #2 team. I know it’s weird, since they’ve always been in our division, but I guess it’s from watching the Saints and Falcons be NFL doormats for so long. Basically, I’ll root for the Saints (or the Packers) anytime they’re not playing the Falcons. So yes, I’m rooting for the Saints. I plan to watch next weekend’s game with two friends: One was a Katrina refugee who ended up staying here, and the other one’s father was in Archie Manning’s fraternity in college or something. They’re both crazy Saints fans, and for this postseason, at least, so am I. ---
**Author:** ![OneChance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/74df32/32.png) [@OneChance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneChance)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/29 "2007-01-16T09:33:44Z")
Been a Saints fan since the late 70’s when I lived in N.O. Seeing them actually win a game in the post-season has me on some kind of weird high. I was really hoping to see a Saints-Seahawks match-up since the 'hawks are my #2 team, but eh, can’t win 'em all I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 10:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/30 "2007-01-16T10:17:10Z")
I’ll be rooting for the Pats, but I’ll also be rooting for the Bears against the Saints because I want to see the Bears get humiliatingly pounded in the big game in retaliation for Super Bowl XX. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/31 "2007-01-16T14:46:18Z")
> [@](#): > > New Orleans Saints - Rooting for Them ? SWMBO is from New Orleans. Her dad still lives there. They are jumping for joy for the Saints. I could care less. It’s football. The only thing that bores me to sleep faster is golf. ---
**Author:** ![robz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ac8455/32.png) [@robz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robz)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/32 "2007-01-16T15:02:54Z")
[QUOTE=Sublight] I’ll be rooting for the Pats, but I’ll also be rooting for the Bears against the Saints because I want to see the Bears get humiliatingly pounded in the big game in retaliation for Super Bowl XX. [/QUOTE] I’m on this band wagon, but if Indy prevails this Sunday :smack: I be a Saints fan (if they win this Sunday). Worse case Indy & Bears win. Then I’m a Bears fan for the bowl. What’s with all the animosity about NE? ( I guess its the same way I feel about big brother). Pat Fan in PA (surrounded by Steelers or Eagles fans). ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/33 "2007-01-16T18:42:34Z")
[QUOTE=robz] What’s with all the animosity about NE? ( I guess its the same way I feel about big brother) [/QUOTE] I have to say, this is about the first time I’ve seen the animosity towards the Pats. Like any team that is dominant, I think people resent them. Even though the Pats wins were always just enough to squeak out a victory, going to 4 Super Bowls in 6 years could be annoying. Even though it’s going to happen. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BabaBooey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dfb087/32.png) [@BabaBooey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BabaBooey)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 7:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/34 "2007-01-16T19:06:31Z")
Of course I’m pulling for them, have been since I was about 7 or 8. As for the Pats, I don’t actively root for them (especially if they play the Saints in the SB), but I have tremendous respect for a team with that much success in the salary cap era. I can understand people wanting some new blood in the SB, but I’d rather see the two best teams. ---
**Author:** ![Anastasaeon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/73ab20/32.png) [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/35 "2007-01-16T19:07:14Z")
Yep, I’ll be rooting for New Orleans now that my Hawks are out and I have at least a year-long grudge toward the Bears to nurse. Grumble. We had a good run. Go Saints. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Santo\_Rugger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Santo\_Rugger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santo_Rugger)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/36 "2007-01-16T19:41:26Z")
I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but does anybody else find it a tad bit coincidental that the Pats won the Super Bowl after 9/11, and the Saints are in the final 4 after Katrina? ---
**Author:** ![Rysto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ecccb3/32.png) [@Rysto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysto)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/37 "2007-01-16T20:05:36Z")
[QUOTE=Pygmy Rugger] I’m not a conspiracy theorist, but does anybody else find it a tad bit coincidental that the Pats won the Super Bowl after 9/11, and the Saints are in the final 4 after Katrina? [/QUOTE] Huh? Why the Pats, instead of the Giants or the Jets? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/38 "2007-01-16T20:05:42Z")
Just curious if anyone was following this rumor last season… was Tom Benson actively pursuing moving the Saints “permanently” to another city last year? Stadium possibly destroyed, populace dispersed, rebuilding prospects suspect, etc. I’ve always found that thankfully rare practice rather theifish, taking the pride and joy of a city and moving it elsewhere for personal/profitability reasons. In short, it ain’t playin’ right. Others; Irsay, Adams and Davis just to mention a few, continue to be looked on with disgust by the fans they abandoned. I wonder if Benson came close to the same mistake and marvel at the extremes to which his name would be held, given current circumstances, if he’d made one choice instead of the other. ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/39 "2007-01-16T20:07:51Z")
As far as my wife is concerned, the best possible Super Bowl would be the Saints vs. the Colts. She’s lived in NO, and we lived in Indy… ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2007, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093/40 "2007-01-16T20:14:21Z")
[QUOTE=lieu] Just curious if anyone was following this rumor last season… was Tom Benson actively pursuing moving the Saints “permanently” to another city last year? [/QUOTE] Rumor had it they were bound for San Antonio. I’ll always wonder if Benson was guilted into keeping them in N’awlins. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-orleans-saints-rooting-for-them/388093.md?page=3)