Nice. I also updated my post to include this: Brees is from Texas and led his Texas high school to a 16-0 season, winning the Texas State Championship in Texas Stadium, home of the Cowboys, in a 55-15 rout. Brees was also the second QB taken in the 2001 Draft after Vick. In college, Brees was a superstar, finishing #3 in the Heisman vote in 2000 and finishing #4 in the Heisman vote in 1999.
Wow I didn't think there were any posters on here that hated the Cowboys more than me. Kinda taking the fun out of it....almost. :rofl:
Here in Louisiana, we have a good bit of Louisianians that jump all over the Cowboy band-wagon, so we have a unique disdain for them. Also, being that Cowboy fans (Texans and sell-out Louisianians) live so close to us, we have to hear their crap more than most.
That, for sure, but I also hate the whole "America's Team" crap. Not my team. It gets really hard to pull for the players (Spears & James), but not the team.
Yeah, but I loved how in 2006 (when we made it to the NFC Championship Game) when I was hearing the media make the Saints out to be "America's Team," being that it was right after Katrina and all. That return-to-the-Dome game when we beat down our arch-rivals, which I was in downtown New Orleans for, was one of the best experiences of my life. September 25, 2006...the first home game in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, was won by the Saints 23-3 against the Atlanta Falcons, who were undefeated in the 2006 season at that time. The attendance for the game was a sellout crowd of 70,003. Meanwhile, the broadcast of the game was ESPN's highest-ever rated program to date, with an 11.8 rating, and viewership by 10,850,000 homes. It was...the second-highest rated cable program of all time. U2 and Green Day performed "Wake Me Up When September Ends" and "The Saints Are Coming" before the game.
I resisted being a Cowboys fan for the first 8 or 9 years I lived up here, but ended up giving in--much like how a person in Baton Rouge might as well be a Tiger fan. That game last night left me absolutely speechless. The two back-to-back runs on 1st down for TDs was one of the most unbelieveable choke jobs I've ever seen in football at any level.
Yea, I feel that. If some Texan Longhorn fan ended up living in Baton Rouge for 8 or 9 years, I'd imagine Baton Rouge people would get sick of it. I currently have family and friends that live in Baton Rouge, and they all wave LSU flags in front of their homes. Their neighbors are even more hard-core: LSU-themed trucks, trailers, etc. I love the LSU-pride in Baton Rouge.
