Saintman2884
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It's often been said that you hate in others what you may see in yourself. And even though my Saints have improved dramatically over the past 3 years since the disaster of a season we had in 2005, some teams and the cities they play in always have a target on their backs or are always the target of ridicule. The Detroit Lions have never been a winning franchise even as far as back as the Barry Sanders days when they won much more then they do now. they never have had one solid guy in the FO, A Jim Finks type to take the reigns and make them better, getting better players, a better more well rounded HC, and perhaps more importantly a winning atmosphere. These things are more then just prevalent in one city then perhaps one football team. The city of Detroit is struggling hard right now, big time hard in fact. their seems to be a lot of pessimism and negativity and oft finger pointing from each all and sides to who is guilty and who is less culpable.
and hey New Orleans has had its own share of bad luck not withstanding this football team we love so much. We've had corrupt mayors, a culture that gets perceived as tolerating and celebrating corrupt populist politicians like Huey Long, Edwin Edwards, and so on. We've seen our fair share of busts and booms and wondered when in the hell it would ever end.
So yes I do feel some sympathy for Lions fans right now and I think most Saints fans should as well. I know what its like to be that guy wondering why we never seem to catch a break, why the odds are always against us, why we have bad drafts consistently, get ridiculed for being a fan of a historically losing team. All these things I can empathize with because I've been own that road. I've seen the half full staduims, I've seen and wondered from year to year whether or not my football team will relocate to some other town who is trying to obtain on highly immoral means and motives.
So as I am glad we are not in Detroit's boat right now at the moment and hopefully not to be repeated anytime soon, I still feel the pain their going through because that's a pain I can share with them all too well. If 2005 was the longest season ever to be felt, it was probably the longest year of my life, not knowing what lay ahead of what was to come in the distant future.
If you read between the lines, that's the same parallel the Lions and perhaps more appropriated Detroit is facing as a city right now.
It's not just a struggle for mediocrity anymore, it's a struggle just to stay above water. I think we as Saints fans know that feeling all too well also.
Maybe that's why I can identify with it now as I say all this.
and hey New Orleans has had its own share of bad luck not withstanding this football team we love so much. We've had corrupt mayors, a culture that gets perceived as tolerating and celebrating corrupt populist politicians like Huey Long, Edwin Edwards, and so on. We've seen our fair share of busts and booms and wondered when in the hell it would ever end.
So yes I do feel some sympathy for Lions fans right now and I think most Saints fans should as well. I know what its like to be that guy wondering why we never seem to catch a break, why the odds are always against us, why we have bad drafts consistently, get ridiculed for being a fan of a historically losing team. All these things I can empathize with because I've been own that road. I've seen the half full staduims, I've seen and wondered from year to year whether or not my football team will relocate to some other town who is trying to obtain on highly immoral means and motives.
So as I am glad we are not in Detroit's boat right now at the moment and hopefully not to be repeated anytime soon, I still feel the pain their going through because that's a pain I can share with them all too well. If 2005 was the longest season ever to be felt, it was probably the longest year of my life, not knowing what lay ahead of what was to come in the distant future.
If you read between the lines, that's the same parallel the Lions and perhaps more appropriated Detroit is facing as a city right now.
It's not just a struggle for mediocrity anymore, it's a struggle just to stay above water. I think we as Saints fans know that feeling all too well also.
Maybe that's why I can identify with it now as I say all this.