Saints Fan Reactions During the Game

Rusty Costanza / The Times-PicayunePenny Cheramie and T-Man, both of Larose, cheer from their seats at Deanie's Seafood Restaurant in the French Quarter as the Saints scored their first touchdown on Sunday.
Generosity abounded in the French Quarter during the first half of tonight's New Orleans Saints game. As Kenneth "Zulu" Breaux arrived at the corner of Bourbon and Iberville streets via his wheelchair, with his "who dat" dog as his best friend, named "Pappa Joe," aboard for a ride, he was graciously given a Reggie Bush jersey by Michael Dugas of Westwego.
"Daddy's getting a brand new shirt," Breaux cried to Pappa Joe. "Awe, I can't believe this. This is so nice. And it fits me perfect."
Breaux, a resident of N. Miro street in new Orleans, is a local artist. He said he paints "oils, murals, who dats and all of that!"
Troy Rosamond of Jefferson has been a saints fan since 1967. He was standing outside Deanie's Restaurant in the French Quarter for kickoff of the NFC championship game.
"I had to be here with my homies," Rosamond said. "I had to be here for the celebration."

Rosamond, a financial director for Southern United States Trade Association, has been a regular at Deanie's throughout this glorious saints season, he said.
He went on: "W've been wandering in the desert. Joshu is blowing his horn; we're in the promised land, BABY."
"I'm a grown man, but I'm gonna cry tonight," Rosamond said.
The stuffed crab balls at Deanie's was a reason, but not the biggest reason, to draw Willie Robert of Edgard to the French quarter this evening.
As he exited his cab, Robert said he had to come to new Orleans "to see what happens."
"I was a Green Bay fan growing up, not really into football. But I love the Saints and I'd love to see them win. If they do," Robert said, "I'm buying myself a saints shirt."
Jennifer Schuelki, 30, of Austin, and Elizabeth Montalbano, 38, of Zachary, exited the Bourbon Strip Tease Shop, featuring adult lingerie and adult gifts, just as Drew Brees and the boys were driving down the field over the Vikings and every other barroom on Bourbon echoed with cheers.
"We don't have tickets and they do, so we are going to find something in here to surprise them when they come walking down bourbon street after the game," the girls said, referring to their significant others.
They each found a teeny weeny saints bikini.
Behind the famous glass doors of Galatoire's on Bourbon Street were two of the saddest faces. Maitre d' David Payne and waiter Bryan Casey were close to tears as they stared through the glass across the street to a television in site.
"Our cable went out," Payne explained. "We were supposed to show the game in here and in the kitchen for our staff but we don't have any cable. Do you have cox cable's number?" he pleaded.
It was standing-room-only at Jean Lafitte's Old Absinthe House. Standing side by side were Ryan and Cayce Sartor from Monroe, La. The couple drove in for every Saints home game this season and weren't about to change things for tonights NFC championship.
"They have a great jukebox. They let me sing Frank Sinatra and the Saints are going to win tonight," Ryan Sartor said.
At Desire, an oyster bar on Bourbon Street, Sonny Hendricks, of Jackson, Miss., and Rachel McMullen of Baton Rouge shared a window table; the best of both worlds. They witnessed the sights along Bourbon and only had to turn their heads slightly to find the nearest television.
"The saints are going to win, of course," Hendricks said.
Daniel Jenkins, John Johnson and Michael Ross, three Bourbon Street teenage tapdancers, never took a break during the first quarter of tonight's game.
"We make a lot of money," Ross said. We've been doing this for years."
Ed and Jane Pavek are from Minneapolis, work in Minneapolis but they sure do love new Orleans.
"I'm a veterinarian in Minneapolis and I came to new Orleans in 1976 to help out at the SPCA," Pavek said. "I ended up staying three years."
Pavek clutched a plastic grocery bag containing several voodoo dolls.
"I bought them all up so you people couldn't play any tricks on us," he said with a big smile.
"We can't lose tonight," he said. "either way we win. We love both these teams. And we love this city."

via: Times-Picayune

New Orleans Saints Tribute Songs Playlist

In the city that gave birth to Jazz, you know it had to happen. Saints and Super Bowl anthems have begun to spring up around New Orleans and the internet. Below are the over 50 local tracks submitted by bands around the country.
As the New Orleans Saints edge closer the the Super Bowl, please keep the anthems coming!
If you have a song you'd like to submit to our New Orleans Saints playlist, email NOLA.com now.
Or, you can upload your New Orleans Saints sing-a-long video and we'll feature it on our site.

• Launch NOLA Radio in a pop-up player window

• New Orleans Saints videos on the web

Current New Orleans Saints playlist:

• Cyril Neville and Norman Caesar "What You Think About Them Saints"
• Village Block Party "Wit da Saints"
• Aaron Neville, Theresa Andersson, Ivan Neville, Matt Perrine and more "Glory Bound"
• Caesar, Bizzy B and Deja Vu "My Town"
• Karl Stiegman "Saints are Real at Last"
• Hertzock "Who Dat"
• Kermit Ruffins "A Saints Christmas"
• Sick Like Sinatra "About the Saints"
• Dee-1, Shamarr Allen "Bring 'em to the Dome"
• Michael Batiste "Who Dat"
• Greg Barnhill, Will Robinson "All I Want for Christmas is the Saints to Win"
• Jep Epstein, "Heaven's 'bout to Make the News"
• Zigaboo Modeliste, "Let's Get Fired Up"
• Dat Boi Pantha, "Who Dat (Put da hurt on 'em)"
• K. Gates, "Black & Gold"
• BlackCa$h and Vankese, "Hi-5 Saints Song"
  
• Dem Boys, "Roll with the Black and Gold"
• Dappa, "Win Again"
• B. Love, "Imma Saints Fan"
• David Newman, "Super Bowl Mambo"
• Page 1NE, "Saints (Whoop 'em)"
• Supagroup, Back in the Game
• MoJEAUX, Black and Gold Superbowl
• MCJ, City of New Orleans
• muNE, The Saints Anthem
• Down, On March the Saints
• The Pin Stripe Brass Band, Them Saints on a Roll
• Weather, Who Dat Fever
• Angelo "Ace'Lo" Jackson, Who Dat Saints
• Trey Banks & J. John, Who Dat Saints
• William 'Doc' Belisle, "New Orleans Saints"
• Bossman, "Black and Gold"
• The Williams Riley Band, "Black and Gold"
• Dee 1, "Drew Brees"
• Delicious Blues Stew, "Superdome"
• Arden Lo, "The Saints be Rollin'"
• Lafayette's Bayou Boys, "The Saints Bandwagon"
• Bootcamp, "Undefeated"
• Arden Lo, "Who Dat Nation"
• Slim Bezzle, "Who Dat"
• David Newman, "Who Dat Dream"
  
• Fred and Lauren "Saints go all the way"
• Michael Lewis "4th and Long"
• T. Blakes "I Believe"
• Sharon and Success Band"Them Saints are on the Move"
• Red Neck Rapper "Super Bowl Roll"
• Drew Cooke "The Legond of St. Breesy"
• Wes Cassady "The Unknown Who Dat"
• Johnny Chauvin "Watching them Play"
• J.R. Powell "Who Dat Boy"
• Lee Williams "Who's G'on Wid Dat Supa Bowl V. 2"
• Bootcamp "Super Bowl Party"
• DJ Dub Hubble "Who Dat City"
• Cood D & Nickel Slick " Repect Da Saints

Reggie Bush Graces Essence Mag

 

New Orleans Saints football player Reggie Bush covers the February 2010 issue of Essence magazine dubbed the “Black Men, Love and Relationships” issue.

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Chris Henry Dies at 26

Redemption stories are the best kinds of stories. If someone's failed, lost their way or made more mistakes than we deem acceptable, I always find myself on that guy's side.
I'm not there supporting what they've done or making excuses for them, but hoping that they'll find a way to be better. Hoping that they'll learn from their mistakes, grow and become the person they can be. In one way or another, I think we're all striving for that.

That's what Bengals wide receiver Chris Henry was doing when he lost his life this morning after falling out of a truck reportedly driven by his fiancee.
We know the guy had made mistakes, getting arrested multiple times and being suspended for half of the 2007 season, but those aren't important today. That was Henry's past. By all accounts, his future was better and brighter, because he had worked his tail off to make it that way. Changing your life is not easy.
Henry was doing it, though. In the preseason, his quarterback, Carson Palmer(notes), had raved about Henry's work ethic and his ability. According to Palmer, Henry had a great offseason and had "really turned his life around." Unfortunately, his season was cut short by injury when he broke his forearm against the Ravens on November 8.
He was 26 when he lost his life this morning. Just 26 years old. For as many headlines as he had made, it seemed like he should be older. The fact was, though, that he was still a very young man. He was just entering his football prime, and considering his natural gifts and the signs he had been showing before being put on injured reserve this year, he could have gone on to have a great, great career.
That's the tragedy here. It's not that we'll miss out on seeing a man who could have been a brilliant player, it's that someone who had once been so far down the wrong path could have come back. He was on his way. If things had continued to go the way they were headed, Chris Henry could have one day stood in front of the world as an example that no matter what you've done in the past, that your future can be better. He could have told the at-risk youth of the world, "Yes, it can be difficult to change the direction of your life, but it can be done, and you have the power to do it. I did it, and you can do it."
What a great thing that could've been for the world to have. Too many times, a gifted person comes along, and we automatically make them a role model. Inevitably, they end up doing something to let us down. The truth is, though, that those were never the role models we needed. The role models we need are the people who let us down first, and then show the strength and character to fight back from that.
Sooner or later, we're all going to let somebody down. We're all going to screw up. But life is about how you come back from it, how you learn from it and how you use it to make yourself a better, stronger person.
Chris Henry was becoming that guy. And we could have used that.

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