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TigerBill661 Life is Good

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This is an amazing article from an ESPN writer formerly with the Times Picayune. If you love New Orleans, this is a must read.

These are strange and beautiful days in New Orleans, and they must be seen to be believed. I've visited the city dozens of times since I was a boy, lived and worked there for a spell and last week, when I went down to experience the mania over the Saints' undefeated season firsthand, I found myself not sure whether every street was a dream. Some moments made me laugh, and others were so full of a desperate love that I had tears in my eyes.
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NFL: New Orleans Saints are the soul of America's City - ESPN

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So has New Orleans replaced Dallas as America's team? Or is that way to premature? Because Dallas isn't America's team anymore.

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LaSalleAve said: ↑

So has New Orleans replaced Dallas as America's team? Or is that way to premature? Because Dallas isn't America's team anymore.
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Agree with you on Dallas....and judging from the Saints fan turnout we're consistently seeing in opposing stadiums this year, I'd say we're on the way to replacing them.

mctiger, Dec 17, 2009

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LaSalleAve said: ↑

So has New Orleans replaced Dallas as America's team? Or is that way to premature? Because Dallas isn't America's team anymore.
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I have always hated the Cowboys for that sole reason. WTH made them America's team? They sure in the hell don't represent the heart and soul of this country, never have and never will.

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I just hate Jerry Jones.

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LEGACY TIGER said: ↑

I have always hated the Cowboys for that sole reason. WTH made them America's team? They sure in the hell don't represent the heart and soul of this country, never have and never will.
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Holy cow, that article is a fantastic read! And as being relevant to your comment, Legacy, here's a quote:

I think about all I've seen -- in the past week, in the years before -- and about the next game in the Dome. The Cowboys are coming to town. Some marketing guy decided in the '70s that they should be America's Team. It stuck, because they were good and because Dallas represented everything America thought about itself: big, consuming, flashy, bragging, unbeatable.

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.
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So those arrogant shyts self imposed themselves on the rest of the country, as "America's Team". I knew I had a good reason for hating them.

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well in all fairness they were America's team. That is until Jerry Jones took over. Now they are more like "the team America loves to hate". I disagree with that article though because i love the D/FW metroplex. I think it is a great place to live, and has a bunch of wonderful people who live in it. The Cowboys organization i can see that if that is what the article is referring to.

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I don't know if we can be The America's team that the old cowboys used to be... but we are definitely the team that everyone roots for. That's enough for me.

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LEGACY TIGER said: ↑

I have always hated the Cowboys for that sole reason. WTH made them America's team? They sure in the hell don't represent the heart and soul of this country, never have and never will.
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The news media made them America's team. In fact I think they coined the phrase. The latest polls seem to indicate otherwise as in Saints. Quick switch to a Tiger Woods story!

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