Saints win in thriller

[jay_merrill]

Re: Saints win in thriller

Mike, I don't have a problem with rule changes. I don't even have a problem with the OT setup being changed. What I have a problem with is dissing a team that busted its "collective butt" to earn the honor of playing in the SB.

The point is that the rules are the rules and everyone stands a chance of benefitting or not benefitting from them. Trying to minimize a win involving a game that is now history, is folly in my opinion. Its a never ending mental exercise that is best thought of in terms of future, not past.

The Colts are a very good team and the Saints might get their behinds handed to them in two weeks. Then again, I didn't think they were going to beat New England and I thought the Saints/Cardinals game would be a lot closer. We all know what happened in both of those games.

Whatever happens, I'm going to congratulate the winner and appreciate the hard work and skills that earned them a ring.



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[mike64]

Re: Saints win in thriller

Mike, I don't have a problem with rule changes. I don't even have a problem with the OT setup being changed. What I have a problem with is dissing a team that busted its "collective butt" to earn the honor of playing in the SB.
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Yeah Jay, I realized where you were coming from when I read the other playoff thread, and posted again. I have two posts in a row, you might not have seen the second one because you posted right after. Take a look if you didn't see it ^^

I'm by no means dissing your Saints, and congrats to your guys for making it! I can only imagine how pumped up you must be after all those years... I'm hoping my grandkids will be able to experience it when the Lions finally get to their first SB.

 

[itsaboattime]

Re: Saints win in thriller

The better team won. Favre(spelling?) had a TON of chances to put more points on the board and he didn't. The Saints made things happen, forced turn-overs, and WON the game.

The Saints deserved to win. Their defense capitilized on the Vikings' mistakes. Right down to Favre's last interception.

Let me say that I'm not a Saints fan. I like Miami. I also am not a favre fan, he should have hung it up years ago.

As for the NFL's OT rules.......change it to one regulation quarter. If still tied at the end of that quarter, the game goes into the books as a tie. For playoff games, after the additional quarter, go in to sudden death.

Either way, I agree with Jay. The Saints busted their butts to get there, and I hope they win!!

 

[gonefishie]

Re: Saints win in thriller

As for the NFL's OT rules.......change it to one regulation quarter. If still tied at the end of that quarter, the game goes into the books as a tie. For playoff games, after the additional quarter, go in to sudden death.

You can't do that because you would have to figure out tie breakers,etc.. and with only 16 games it be hard to do. Is BCS and NCAA tourny selection full of questions? Can Elmer Fudge not says Wabit? Plus, you still have the coin toss arguement. It is fine the way it is. If a team can't prevent their opponent to score 3pts then they don't deserve to win.

 

[jay_merrill]

Re: Saints win in thriller

Yeah Jay, I realized where you were coming from when I read the other playoff thread, and posted again. I have two posts in a row, you might not have seen the second one because you posted right after. Take a look if you didn't see it ^^

I'm by no means dissing your Saints, and congrats to your guys for making it! I can only imagine how pumped up you must be after all those years... I'm hoping my grandkids will be able to experience it when the Lions finally get to their first SB.

I didn't see it the first time - we were posting simultaneously. I understand where you are coming from.

I also admit that this is a very emotional win for us. After 43 years of trying, here we are ... but its more. It also the ups and downs of being a city on the mend.

One of the things that I will never forget as long as I live, is the first trip that I made to the French Quarter, after Katrina. I had come home quickly after the storm, but hadn't been downtown, because of all I had to do at my house. When all the cleanup was pretty much finished, my "roomie" and I went to a favorite restaurant on Decatur Street, in search of relaxation and "normalcy." As we came down the back side of the Crescent City Connection bridge, we saw the lights of the CBD and French Quarter, but all else was black. As we rounded the Superdome onto I-10, it was just more of the same, not a light anywhere. It was as if that blackness was a physical metaphor for the death and destruction that had occured.

It was emotional down to the core. My roommate burst out in tears at the horror of it, as she did many times afterwards, because not a single member of her very large immediate and extended family, was able to come home. To a family (about 30), everyone of them lost their homes and everything that they owned. In fact, she became my housemate, simply because she lost everything too, but was determined to come back anyway. It took me 15 minutes to bring the sum total of her existence after the storm, into my house.

What the NFC Championship means to us, is that we have come back better than before. Just as there is another game to go, we still have problems to overcome, but we are not the broken town that we once were. It an immensely uplfting circumstance, so we are very passionate about it. We are also passionately defensive about our team, as we are about Sean Payton and Drew Brees in particular. This is true, because they believed in us when they had no reason to do so. In fact, they believed in us more than our team's owner did, while he was making threats to move it to San Antonio. I'm not a Tom Benson fan and hope that he learns a thing or two from his head coach and QB - he should because he acted like a complete jerk during the remainder of the 2005 season and a few of the following years.

So, the Saints have delivered something that this town craved for so long. People are celebrating like mad and there is already discussion about renting the New Orleans Arena, so that those who can't go to the game can have a stadium-like experience, while watching the game on a few huge stadium screens. Obviously, we want to see our team win the SB, but it won't really matter, because just getting there will be enough. Winning would just be "icing on the cake" and might be cause for a bit more celebration, but I doubt it would be much more than what has already happened.

Best wishes to all of the Colts fans and "we'll see you in Miami." Its party time!


PS: Please send sweaters and coats to hell - I hear that it is kinda chilly down there, about now!



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[mike64]

Re: Saints win in thriller

Great post, Jay. Well said.

 

[jay_merrill]

Re: Saints win in thriller

Just as a "PS," the New Orleans Arena idea graduated to an idea to have an event in the Superdome, which is much larger than the Arena, but was denied by Dome management, because there is an NFL rule prohibiting such thngs. They don't allow any exhibition of the game in a stadium-like format.

I guess when you are selling tickets for the "nosebleed" sections in Miami at $800 a pop, you don't want any competition ... as if this would keep anyone who could afford the tickets and the travel, plus be lucky enough to actually get their hands on a SB ticket, from going to the game.



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