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Thank you for thinking we care about what Baton Rouge thinks about the Saints or New Orleans.
I think I'll sleep much better tonight.
Here is an article from the Shreveport Times by a long time BR columnist. Pretty much sums up the at ude that people have in BR right now about the Saints and Benson.
I don't necessarily agree with everything he says (I am from N.O.) nor does everyone in BR but this pretty much sums it up for a lot of them. Not really going to help attendance in BR much. It's all LSU in Baton Rouge.
Benson, Saints have dangerous side effects for LSU
Thank you for thinking we care about what Baton Rouge thinks about the Saints or New Orleans.
I think I'll sleep much better tonight.
But is BR prepared to put up with this for another year if the Saints move back to play their games there till the Superdome is ready? It doesn't seem like this is getting any better and i imagine its going to get even worse yet before it gets better. Just a sad case for everyone and especially the players being bounced around like they are.
Yet another exemplary post from one of Spurstalk's finest. Thank you for sharing those pearls of wisdom.
Well there was much discussion on this board about the attendance in B.R. and I thought this was a reasonably good article about one of the reasons attendance was 30,000.
Sorry to cause you such inconvenience...sleep tight.
I don't know if BR is prepared or not. Unless something changes with Benson I don't see them supporting the Saints. Oh and the fact that well...the Saints aren't very good. I think the people in BR would just rather spend their money on traveling to LSU games than the Saints.
How much of this has to do with people wanting to cheer on the #6 team in the country, just a couple of years removed from a national le, on a hurricane-shortened budget, over a sad sack Saints team who's owner openly despises Baton Rouge?
Oh just about 100% of it. If LSU beats Bama this weekend they will most likely be going to ATL for the SEC championship. They are already going to a bowl so many LSU fans are going to be saving and spending their money to follow LSU.
The Saints and LSU have always been in compe ion for football fan dollars. Now they are in a position where they need to work together and they are bumping heads for sure.
I think Benson is jealous of the crowds LSU draws. Although if he could just put a decent team on the field he would most certainly get the same type of support year after year.
In their first 20 years, NO had zero playoff appearances. Benson buys them in 85, they make the playoffs for four years out of six, starting in 87, and the end of that streak had much more to do with the death of Jim Finks than anything Tom Benson did, or didn't do. , they've made the post season as recently at 2000. Not recent enough for you? Tough. There are 20 teams that don't make the post season every year. I'm sure all of THEIR fans don't bail on the team. I really think New Orleans hates the Saints, and only wants them around to kick like an old dog, and to complain about.I think Benson is jealous of the crowds LSU draws. Although if he could just put a decent team on the field he would most certainly get the same type of support year after year.
People, I'm born and raised in Baton Rouge. People don't care for the Saints 1/10th of what they care for LSU.
Baton Rouge is not the answer, and the Superdome will not be ready.
It's SA OR LA
A lame ass excuse?
The original Man in Black.
Can you imagine how bads its going to get the longer the Saints play there and it starts to take its toll on their field?? Then the Saints will really feel the frustration from LSU not wanting them. I understand they all hate Benson, but the players are only out there to play and win football games, not feel any more guilt then they already are feeling. Granted, no they haven't won many, LOL, but all this animosity sure isn't helping them either.
I come here from another message board because I want to see for myself what it is like. Before I get flamed here let me tell you a few things. Like my name here describes the truth. I had ancestors fight and, of course, die at the Battle of the Alamo. I also had family members that were a part of lthe original Texas Rangers. And since I know there will be a wise one in ever crowd I don't mean the baseball team. I am a fan of the New Orleans Saints. Have been since 1972. I thank your city for giving them a place to stay after the hurricane came through. If it stopped there, there would have been no problem. But Benson tried to move them and we got pissed. Then your mayor in SA publically recruited them while dead bodies were still floating in the streets. All crap aside, does ANYONE see anything wrong with that? Or is it just us over here in Louisiana? I am glad you are Saints fans. Lord knows we need all the fans we can get. Saints fans,particuarlly Louisiana fans, are a strange breed. Ask yourselfs htis and be honest ok. We have supported them for 38 years of losing. Would SA? Would you sell out 36 games in a row to a 500 team at best? Do I think SA deserves a team? Who am I to say ? But would SA like to have a team? I believe the answer is yes. Football is a way of life in Texas. Same in Louisiana. Would you pay for ads for the Saints? Tempers are high here but what would you do if someone took in your Spurs after a disaster in SA and then tried to keep them. But the Spurs have won championships and the Saints have won ! playoff game. Please keep this in mind while you are bashing us at SaintsReport.com . And one more thing. Yes it is a private web site. But the mods there keep the forums civil. We strive for a higher level. Unforuantly the some can't be said for here. But this is your board and how this is run is up to the mods here. THANK GOD FOR AMERICA WHERE DIFFERENCE OF OPINION IS ALLOWED. That is all. Thank you for supporting the Saints.
FYI the league is going to help the Tigers get a new field for next year
So did the Nazi's and it seems that seems to be who is moderating over SaintsReport.com as well as posting.
Huh? Since when did the NFL have the right to buy a new field for a college?FYI the league is going to help the Tigers get a new field for next year
So you are comparing them to those who killed 10 million people. You are sad.
Since they are trying to help out the Saints and doing the RIGHT thing with the LSU TIGERS. Get a grip on reality.
It was an sarcastic eggageration of the overall "do as we say and say as we want because if you don't you're banned" at ude that is common place at SaintsReport.com
Again, since when was the NFL allowed to pay for anything having to do with a college?
Also, a link to such statements would be nice.
No one has been banned for a difference of opinion there. Now if you say the junk you say here about being gay and stuff then yes, you will be banned because children such as yourself go there and most parents don't won't their children reading such things.
It was an sarcastic eggageration of the overall "do as we say and say as we want because if you don't you're banned" at ude that is common place at SaintsReport.com
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They ban anyone and everyone that doesn't jive with their own personal opinions and views.
Children go to a Saints forum message board?Now if you say the junk you say here about being gay and stuff then yes, you will be banned because children such as yourself go there and most parents don't won't their children reading such things.
Last edited by TheWriter; 11-09-2005 at 04:27 AM.
yes we encourage children to be Saints fans
Last edited by decendant of alamo battle; 11-09-2005 at 10:27 AM.
I really dont think the bashing of the Saintsreport is neccessary. There are actually 12 year old children that are football fans and I could see them going to messages boards to keep up with thier favorite team. I am a regular poster on Saintsreport, and for what its worth Loose cannon has been banned from other there in the past as well. They are very strict about thier Terms of Service. Your banning (or whoever's banning) had nothing to do with your views as we oftewn have varied opinions expressed over there, and mine are not always popular. I also dont think any bashing of Spurstalk over there is neccessary.
I must agree with Loose cannon on one thing though, the gentleman poster that came to Saintsreport and posted about his Saints2006 website, did not represent what really happened on Saintsreport at all.
No one on our board made any racists comments, and if an Individual emailed him (as I understand thats what the story is now) who was from our board, that was done by the individual and Saintsreport should not share in the blame for that.
About the topic now:
The cheap seats if you will at the Saints games are very very few in Numbers. The bears attendence was expected to be low by Area Saints Fans, I think it is a bad barometer of local Support, The next two BR games are Division games, turn out should be a little better.
You cannot compare LSU attendence to Saints attendence, they are different beasts.
I honestly feel that New Orleans NEEDS the Saints as a business to help with thier recovery. A lot of revenue is made off of the Saints and moving them now when the City needs help is in my honest opinion in poor taste.
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