{"id":286,"date":"2008-09-11T19:12:23","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T19:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thehogs.net\/blogs\/?p=286"},"modified":"2008-09-11T19:42:36","modified_gmt":"2008-09-11T19:42:36","slug":"know-your-opponent-new-orleans-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/the-hogs.net\/blogs\/2008\/09\/11\/know-your-opponent-new-orleans-saints\/","title":{"rendered":"Know Your Opponent: New Orleans Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Orleans aka “The Big Easy”<\/p>\n

It’s an appropriate name for a city whose football team went more than a decade before having it’s first .500 season, and more than 20 years before having it’s first winning season.<\/p>\n

The New Orleans Saints are 7-14 all time versus the Redskins, with their last loss coming December 17th, 2006 at the Superdome.<\/p>\n

Often referred to as the “Aint’s”, their fans are usually distinguished by their brown paper-bag masks; a tribute to the shame a Saints fan must feel for rooting for a team with an overall record of 255-367 (.409) and only 8 winning seasons in the past 40 years. During that 40-year span the Saints are 2-6 in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

For the geographically challenged; if you were to picture Louisiana as a big boot, New Orleans would be right on the toe. This is kind of appropriate since the Saints once had a kicker named\u00a0Tom Dempsey<\/a>\u00a0who was born without any toes on his kicking foot.<\/p>\n

If you had to pin down a specific Saint to which the team refers to in it’s name, it would have to be Saint Jude, the patron Saint of Lost Causes<\/a>. The Saints very first play ever was an opening kick-off they returned for 94-yards for a touchdown…they went on to lose that game 27-13 and had a 3-13 record that year.<\/p>\n

Many people know that the Saints were named for the song “When the Saints Go Marching In” but may not be aware that the tune was originally used as a funeral march!<\/a><\/p>\n

The team owes it’s colors (black and gold) to their first majority shareholder (a Texas oilman) and Louisiana’s rich oil (aka: black gold) production. The team’s emblem is officially called a fleur-de-lis and is a common emblem that traces it’s roots back to French monarchy…it is also commonly used by a rank of older Cub Scouts known as Webelos.<\/p>\n

For anyone who was never in, or had kids in the Cub Scouts it’s pronounced “WE-blows.”<\/p>\n

There; now you know your opponent!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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