20 years ago today Buddy Diliberto passed away

Yeah, I agree. He was a Saints legend but I found him very difficult to listen to for Saints info and I also found his commentary to be too heavily based on gambling and the Vegas line.

But still, he was a one of a kind and very much a symbol of the “rough around the edges” Saints.
I think most Saints fans today, if not most sports journalists would agree that Dilberto's personality and form of aggressive, confrontational sports journalism likely wouldn't fly today. Today, NFL and NCAAF HC's along with requisite teams and programs control the narrative and nature of press conferences far more then 45-50 years ago and if faced with assertive, pressing questions from beat reporters like Dilberto today, they'd probably ask or demand he can taken off the beat or allowed into pre-or-post game press conferences, otherwise we won't do them anymore.