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Post by Lauryn on Jan 9, 2010 13:09:20 GMT -5
Well, I can let out that breath I've been holding all season long! My Alabama Crimson Tide are in their rightful place -- back on the top of the college football world. Now we have a national championship in every decade since the sixties. But talk about a long dry spell! It's been 1992 since we hoisted home the crystal football. How fitting that this one came in the Rose Bowl where we put Southern football on the map in 1926.
Now that order has been restored to the universe it's safe for Tide fans to be insufferable again. (Ace, the Yankees fan knows all about that <wink>) And it's safe for coach Nick Saban to actually smile! Blink and you'll miss it, LOL!
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Post by Ace on Jan 9, 2010 17:29:27 GMT -5
And here I thought the Muppets had done another Queen video. Congratulations from one insufferable fan to another! I saw the score on the news and immediately thought of you. And welcome back stranger!
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 24, 2010 22:52:05 GMT -5
Woo hoo! The football gods are being crazy good to me! First my Crimson Tide wins the NC and now the Saints are going to the Super Bowl! I'm so happy for them and for the City of New Orleans. They needed this so much! Laissez le bons temps rouler! Who needs to wait for Mardi Gras?
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Post by Ace on Jan 25, 2010 8:07:00 GMT -5
Woo hoo! The football gods are being crazy good to me! First my Crimson Tide wins the NC and now the Saints are going to the Super Bowl! I'm so happy for them and for the City of New Orleans. They needed this so much! Laissez le bons temps rouler! Who needs to wait for Mardi Gras? Im glad you're happy and I'm really happy for New Orleans - they did need this. On the other hand my mother was CRUSHED last night. She still can't believe Favre didn't run with the ball to get the extra yards for the field goal and threw that interception. (shades of 2008 against the Giants but then Green Bay was being out played and it was desperation time - not so last night on either count) And she hates the Saints now so much for excessively pounding him into the ground she's sworn everyone to root for Manning and the Colts. Sports - for every cheering winner there's a loser crying/cursing into their beer/beverage of choice. Ace
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Post by Lauryn on Jan 25, 2010 21:51:24 GMT -5
Woo hoo! The football gods are being crazy good to me! First my Crimson Tide wins the NC and now the Saints are going to the Super Bowl! I'm so happy for them and for the City of New Orleans. They needed this so much! Laissez le bons temps rouler! Who needs to wait for Mardi Gras? Im glad you're happy and I'm really happy for New Orleans - they did need this. On the other hand my mother was CRUSHED last night. She still can't believe Favre didn't run with the ball to get the extra yards for the field goal and threw that interception. (shades of 2008 against the Giants but then Green Bay was being out played and it was desperation time - not so last night on either count) And she hates the Saints now so much for excessively pounding him into the ground she's sworn everyone to root for Manning and the Colts. It's odd how many divided loyalities go along with the match-ups this year. Peyton Manning's dad, of course, played for The Saints and Peyton and Eli grew up in New Orleans. Brett Favre grew up and played football in Mississippi and lots of Saints fans are Favre fans. I hated to root against him myself even though the off-again, on-again act got tired; he's able to quit football and mean it like Andy Osnard can swear off sex and cigarettes. <wink> I was in a defensive crouch myself during the game, watching that 40-year old body take so many hits. That makes me think of an old "Sex and the City" episode. Aidan and Mr. Big get in a slogging match in the mud and Carrie yells at them, "Stop! You're middle aged!!" Yep, Favre's an old-school football warrior, no doubt about that. Sad, the deja vu with the interception. I'm sure he hates it to end on that note, so he'll probably have another open-ended retirement. I was hoping the Jets could pull off the impossible again against the Colts like in the Joe Namath days, but Sanchez has a way to go before he can fill Broadway Joe's shoes, or his pantyhose, for that matter.
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Post by Myrtle Groggins on Feb 24, 2010 2:55:16 GMT -5
Well, since ya'll started this discussion.......... We're all still flying high like this little guy. It only took 43 years for the Saints to get to the Super Bowl but when they did, they OWNED it. Okay, they did hold back for the first quarter, but they were only being nice to Archie's boy so he could get a few points. ;D Congratulations on the Crimson championship status, Lauryn. We miss Nick Saban over here. As for Favre and his Kiln neighbors, well, as I can is, those folks were Saints fans long before their native son joined up with the Vikings. I don't feel one ounce of shame whizzing through their town with my Saints Super Bowl Champs bumper sticker. Not that it takes very long to go through the place. If you blink, you miss it.
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Post by Ace on Feb 24, 2010 7:54:54 GMT -5
Congrats! Between the Superbowl and Mardi Gras I'm surprised you still have enough energy to reach the keyboard. But as for owning , I seem to recall a pretty close game until a 4th quarter interception. How cute is that baby and how smart to have headphones on him to protect his ears.
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Post by Lauryn on Mar 6, 2010 10:56:06 GMT -5
Well, since ya'll started this discussion.......... We're all still flying high like this little guy. It only took 43 years for the Saints to get to the Super Bowl but when they did, they OWNED it. Okay, they did hold back for the first quarter, but they were only being nice to Archie's boy so he could get a few points. ;D And Peyton didn't even look like he appreciated it! <wink> Well, you can't have him! (I sound like Laura Holt!) It's a shame some LSU fans (that, unlike yourself, don't accept this in good grace) have to be so obnoxious. My next door neighbors were at the AL/LSU game in Baton Rouge in '08 and it was an ugly, liquored- up scene. I mean, usually everyone's feeling no pain on the LSU side in Death Valley but there were a lot of mean drunks calling out Saban and throwing things to the point where it got scary. It's a double shame because I think he sincerely enjoyed his time with the program at LSU and all he did to those fans was bring the program to its highest ever level of national prominence. String him up! They should remember he left them for the NFL and not Alabama, and was miserable in the pros and so was everyone else around him apparently. Yes, sometime it's hard to tell when the man is happy, LOL! Even when we got the trophy he looked like Mr Steele at a birder's convention. I think some of that frown was caused by getting clobbered by the Gatorade bucket (bad aim!) and having to wear a pink and white tie-dyed jersey for all his photo-ops. We're probably the only two people on this board who know where Kiln MS is. And I only know it from the Interstate. Is there a Brett Favre Avenue?
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