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Katrina = New America's team


panther83

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The Saints America's team really?

“With memories of Hurricane Katrina lingering and NFC champion New Orleans about to make its first Super Bowl appearance, football fans around the country have embraced the Saints as this year's sentimental favorite,” said the Associated Press

So it take a natural disaster to become "America's team". Hurricane Katrina happen in 2005 but still the media want others fans to embrace the Saints out of pity for the city and the people of New Orleans. It was a feel good story in 2006 but it getting kind of old using hurricane katrina for the Saints benefit. I like how the Saints organization pride themselves for being there for their fans but then there was that incident where the Saints owner wanted to move the team to Texas even after the Hurricane Katrina hit. America's team indeed :coolgleamA:

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I see nothing wrong with people saying their the sentimental favorite but I despise the word "America's team". It's so arrogant. The entire country of america doesn't not love these teams. We don't have a favorite anything, even things that are protypically american.

If we can't even agree on what pizza is the favorite we sure as he'll don't have a favorite football team.

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it's not really about the saints, it's more about just the media's obsession to make up labels and stories. And the label. It's always so cute when the underdog makes the superbowl so you have to have a backstory for it.

Very true. The media builds stuff up just to tear it down. It's what they do. I hate it as well. In fact all of my friends and family back in MS/LA including myself are tired of linking Katrina to the Saints. Is it true Sean Payton and Drew Brees came to a team that nobody else wanted to? Yes but give it a rest. Of course the media wont do that.

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lol first this:

Next time you watch a Saints game on TV' date=' look at those folks in the upper deck at the Superdome? They're probably spending almost all of their discretionary income on Saints tickets given how depressed the New Orleans economy has been since Katrina. Still, to these people, season tickets to the Saints = love for their city. These folks are probably among the NFL's best fans.[/quote']

and now they're being called "America's Team"?

people make me laugh.

Link to Quote: http://www.east-coast-bias.com/2009/10/nfls-most-annoying-fans-nfc-south.html

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lol first this:

and now they're being called "America's Team"?

people make me laugh.

Link to Quote: http://www.east-coast-bias.com/2009/10/nfls-most-annoying-fans-nfc-south.html

Man I forgot all about that article and how it dubbed us the most annoying fans in the "AFC South" at the very end. Ignoring the horrible proofreading error, that's actually something of an accomplishment seeing as to how most of the writeup insists that we don't have fans and we're a basketball/NASCAR state or whatever other tired, played out talking points the writer stole from the Falcons forum.

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As of the 2000 census, the median household income in New Orleans was almost $15,000 less than the rest of the country. I guess it's recession-proof because it's already depressed. How low can you really go?

The dysfunctionals that dropped our median income that low are gone and aren't coming back. Like most predicted, New Orleans is a much more affluent city after the hurricane.

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