20 years ago today Buddy Diliberto passed away

Saint Jack said

Not to denigrate because I actually have good memories of listening to him as a kid, but he’s the reason why some fans and commentators in the national media cling to the Baghead days like it happened in the most rev past.

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It is a shame that Buddy D never lived at least maybe another 10 years to witness the outstanding, almost mythical accomplishments Brees and Sean Payton would bring to this city, team and organization for 15 seasons as well as a SB victory. Still, considering his contrarian nature, Buddy probably wouldve criticized or questioned Payton's lack of committment to building up decent defenses or why we never tried to make it more of an effective complement to how powerful our offenses were from 2006-2011, and 2013.


I do believe however he wouldve given Payton a lot more rope when taking into consideration the sheer amount of success his methods brought in compared to past HC''s like Mora.

I can't imagine Buddy D going toe-to-toe with Mora like Ron Swadoda (?) did in late 80's after Swadoda essentially asked Mora why he was practicing his team so hard for what was, in his view, a "meaningless game" and Mora went full-blown thermonuclear on his arse and they had one of the nastiest, contensious on-air fights ever witnessed on New Orleans television. To this day, it is a mini-miracle neither one of them took a swing at each other during that heated conversation.