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re: The New "America's Team"
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:36 pm to Purple N Gold Blood
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:36 pm to Purple N Gold Blood
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
I DID
I DID
5
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:38 pm to Tmon225
Awesome read. Very well done. 
When I drive into Dallas, I see a place sprawling and bland, loops and rings of interstate and, somewhere over the horizon, a stadium representing a just-gone era of bloat and decay … scoreboard so big it interferes with the game … $60 pizzas. It looks new but is dead inside. In contrast, there is the drive out of New Orleans, through a city still battered, past the exits for the Vieux Carre and Uptown, past the Huey Long, which runs narrow and high out to the leaning oyster and chicken shack. All told, this is a city with the opposite calculus of Dallas: It is decayed on the outside, but inside there is life. Here is a citizenry that believes in the power of the underdog. New Orleanians fell first and see something the rest of America is blind to right now: a way back into the light.
Wish I could fit all of that into a sig.
When I drive into Dallas, I see a place sprawling and bland, loops and rings of interstate and, somewhere over the horizon, a stadium representing a just-gone era of bloat and decay … scoreboard so big it interferes with the game … $60 pizzas. It looks new but is dead inside. In contrast, there is the drive out of New Orleans, through a city still battered, past the exits for the Vieux Carre and Uptown, past the Huey Long, which runs narrow and high out to the leaning oyster and chicken shack. All told, this is a city with the opposite calculus of Dallas: It is decayed on the outside, but inside there is life. Here is a citizenry that believes in the power of the underdog. New Orleanians fell first and see something the rest of America is blind to right now: a way back into the light.
Wish I could fit all of that into a sig.
This post was edited on 12/17/09 at 3:42 pm
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:39 pm to Central Tiger
I definitely got a chill towards the end. Excellent read.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:47 pm to Tmon225
quote:
Before the storm, he saw NFL owners in his restaurant. Now, he sees players in all six of his places. Brees brings teammates to a different Besh restaurant before each home game. Team captains host dinners upstairs at August. The O-line knows the ins and outs of the menu, and Reggie Bush, Besh says, knows the chefs working the kitchen.
"Shockey used to live upstairs," Besh jokes, laughing. "We're glad he's gone. We kept losing hostesses."
Posted on 12/17/09 at 3:48 pm to tigerfan5803
quote:
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
Guilty
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:03 pm to Tmon225
Very good article. Parts of it made me cry.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:04 pm to tigerfan5803
quote:
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
I'll admit it proudly.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:20 pm to tigerfan5803
quote:
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
plus one.
It also made me wish I was over there right now.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:29 pm to saltybulldog
quote:
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
plus one.
It also made me wish I was over there right now.
+1 on both accounts!
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:40 pm to DEANintheYAY
Posted on 12/17/09 at 4:44 pm to Jwho77
I teared up when they mentioned the sign on Commander's Palace: "Yes, we know what it means." 
I miss New Orleans and I was just there last night.
I miss New Orleans and I was just there last night.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 5:25 pm to saintsfan92612
I got chills reading this stuff three or four times. You either get it or you don't. To those who do.... 
Posted on 12/17/09 at 5:33 pm to notiger1997
great article 
although i don't know if i should
or 
at this:
Maybe you use bizarre trends, such as an NOPD cop telling me the 911 calls almost stop when the Saints play and there's been only one murder during a game this year.
although i don't know if i should
or at this: Maybe you use bizarre trends, such as an NOPD cop telling me the 911 calls almost stop when the Saints play and there's been only one murder during a game this year.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 5:51 pm to Tmon225
Saints gear is flying off the shelves in Atlanta and Dallas to the poster that didn't think this was happening. America's Team is good for merchandise sales.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 6:24 pm to tigerfan5803
quote:
how many people teared up at some point in reading that.....
I mighta got a little verklempt.
Great article. Sticky.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 6:53 pm to RockChalkTiger
I haven't lived in New Orleans for almost 12 years now. When reading this article, it makes me feel insane for ever leaving.
Great Article.
Great Article.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:17 pm to Tmon225
I don't want them to be America's team. They play for New Orleans, the state of Louisiana and parts of the Gulf Coast.
This post was edited on 12/17/09 at 7:18 pm
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:20 pm to Domeland Security
It really is a tremendous article. Definitely one of the best I can ever remember reading. I felt very proud of our city after reading it.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:21 pm to Tmon225
Mr. Thompson, the writer of this piece, did an extraordinary job...he's far too accomplished for an ESPN writer.
I particularly enjoyed the comparison between New Orleans and Dallas...very accurate.
I particularly enjoyed the comparison between New Orleans and Dallas...very accurate.
Posted on 12/17/09 at 7:22 pm to tigerfan5803
quote:
time for honesty people....how many people teared up at some point in reading that..... I DID
guilty
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