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Call it 'Silence of the (Jimmy) Graham' as ex-Saint mum before, after return to New Orleans
By Rod Walker -- Advocate
By the time you read this, perhaps Jimmy Graham will have broken his silence.
The former New Orleans Saints tight end, who now plays for the Seattle Seahawks, didn’t speak to the media leading up to Sunday’s game against his former team.
And he didn’t utter one mumbling word to the media afterward, either.
He wasn’t present when the locker room was opened. Thirty minutes later, reporters were told he would talk outside the locker room.
He still didn’t.
Instead, he walked straight through a crease he saw among the media members, took a left turn and headed back toward the field. He kept walking, right under one of the very same goal posts he dunked a football over so many times in his five seasons with New Orleans. And then he walked some more, 100 yards in all — about three times as many yards as he had in his return to the Big Easy, a 25-20 Saints victory.
A few fans in the stands who were still hanging around screamed his name: “Jimmy! Jimmy!”
He continued on, fading away into the tunnel on the opposite end of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, leaving behind nothing but memories and bitter feelings (at least it seemed that way after the game) from the trade two years ago that shipped him off to the great northwest.
MORE -- Advocate
Call it 'Silence of the (Jimmy) Graham' as ex-Saint mum before, after return to New Orleans
By Rod Walker -- Advocate
By the time you read this, perhaps Jimmy Graham will have broken his silence.
The former New Orleans Saints tight end, who now plays for the Seattle Seahawks, didn’t speak to the media leading up to Sunday’s game against his former team.
And he didn’t utter one mumbling word to the media afterward, either.
He wasn’t present when the locker room was opened. Thirty minutes later, reporters were told he would talk outside the locker room.
He still didn’t.
Instead, he walked straight through a crease he saw among the media members, took a left turn and headed back toward the field. He kept walking, right under one of the very same goal posts he dunked a football over so many times in his five seasons with New Orleans. And then he walked some more, 100 yards in all — about three times as many yards as he had in his return to the Big Easy, a 25-20 Saints victory.
A few fans in the stands who were still hanging around screamed his name: “Jimmy! Jimmy!”
He continued on, fading away into the tunnel on the opposite end of the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, leaving behind nothing but memories and bitter feelings (at least it seemed that way after the game) from the trade two years ago that shipped him off to the great northwest.
MORE -- Advocate