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SUPER BOWL XLIV: INSIDE THE NUMBERS
COLTS SUPPORTING CAST FAILS THEM LATE
CARNIVAL SEASON NOW HAS SUPER LAGNIAPPE
MIAMI - Before departing South Florida after a hectic, historic, emotional week, I have time for one last reflection on the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints.
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Another jolt of Saints euphoria is on tap for New Orleans Tuesday when the Super Bowl champs board floats borrowed from Mardi Gras krewes for a victory parade through the grateful…
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Miami, FL (Sports Network) - Raise your umbrella and your Hurricane glass to the New Orleans Saints, who are Super Bowl XLIV champions because they were flat-out better than the Colts in an…
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FORT LAUDERDALE – On a night when the new world champions ran the gamut of emotions, New Orleans Saints Defensive Coordinator Gregg Williams uttered words that should bring a smile to the collective…
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Written by Brian Allee-Walsh, NewOrleans.Com's Saints Beat | Wednesday, 18 November 2009 13:42 | Saints News
No, no, wait. Don’t touch that mouse. You’re not at the wrong site. This is me, Brian Allee-Walsh, the same graybeard who has covered the Saints the past 23 years for The Times-Picayune.
I’ve joined forces with a great team at NewOrleans.com to help chronicle what is developing into perhaps the most exciting and gratifying sports season in the Big Easy.
Ever!
And NewOrleans.Com has afforded me an opportunity to jump on board and ride this train to what promises to be a dramatic conclusion. The way it looks now the “Train They Call New Orleans’’ could be headed to Super Bowl XLIV at Land Shark Stadium in Miami Gardens on Feb. 7.
But, first things first. The Saints (9-0) have a division to win, and in the process, fend off teams such as Minnesota (8-1) and Dallas (6-3) for homefield advantage in the NFC before they can begin talking seriously about south Florida in February.
But all the components are there, beginning with quarterback Drew Brees, a fastbreak offense and a vastly improved defense that now must deal with a spate of injuries in the secondary.
An explanation is in order as to why I no longer work for The Times-Picayune and suddenly have ended up on the NewOrleans.com Web site the week before Thanksgiving.
I have taken a buyout from The T-P, an offer that has been made to every newspaper employee. I have not retired, nor do I have plans of retiring anytime soon, not at age 57 anyway.
I see this as a golden opportunity to pursue other interests that before now have not been available to me. I am eternally grateful for my 32-plus years at The T-P. I could not have asked for a better company to work for or better colleagues to work with, all good people too numerous to mention here.
I will cherish those years, and now it is time to move on.
I expect a smooth transition going from the T-P to NewOrleans.com. My job is essentially the same _ all Saints, all the time.
Am I nervous? Yes, but it’s a healthy fear, probably much like Gene Hackman and his Hickory High School basketball team must have felt in the movie “Hoosiers.’’
Remember the scene when his bunch of country bumpkins stepped onto the elevated basketball court at Hinkle Fieldhouse on the campus of Butler University in the big city of Indianapolis? His players had that deer-in-the-headlight look on their faces as they scanned the empty 10,000-seat arena.
Hackman pulled a tape measure from his pocket and asked a player to measure the distance from the rim to the floor and from the end line to the charity stripe.
The measurements matched to the inch those of their bandbox gym back in tiny Hickory, Ind. Unfazed by the enormity of the moment, Hickory went on to win the Indiana State High School championship, beating urban schools with mammoth enrollments.
That’s kind of the way I feel, moving from the traditional print medium where I have operated at a certain comfort level for all these years to this big abyss on the worldwide Web.
Helloooooooohhhh out there!
I hope I can deliver like Hickory High.
