Picture Day at School

Today is picture day at school for Lil Hap. It is also Hornets Day. We got Lil Hap his Hornets shirt, but he keeps saying Saints when you ask him what it is.

57 Rookies report to Airline Drive today.

Now that's a picture day.

Hornets Come Up with Brand New Logo

Our New Orleans Hornets have generated a new logo to warm up to the local fan base. With his Fleur De Bee shield let's call him SChinn.

Please Settle OUR Score

This blog has not taken the time to recognize the flavor of the week.

Our New Orleans Hornets are truly the flavor of the week.

• Not because Reggie Bush is buddies with CP3.
• Not because Mr. Benson was kind enough to attend a game with Mr. Shinn.
• Not because Our New Orleans Hornets passed out gold shirts with Fleur de BEES on them for all to wear last night at the playoff game so they would look (and feel) like Saints fans.
• Not because Aaron Neville sang the National Anthem and sat with the same Mr. Shinn last night.

Because a segment of Our Black and Gold Nation has been influenced by the Arab culture, being from the oil patch and from serving in Kuwait and Iraq.

Because a famous Arab quote goes like this “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

Because Our New Orleans Hornets can be the hand of justice for Mayor Phil Hardberger of San Antonio, re-elected in 2007, I must add.

Because he chose to pick the Saints-FALCONS game to try and court Mr. Benson.

Remember, please......................

AP Reports
Mayor, Saints owner to negotiate at season's end

October 17, 2005
SAN ANTONIO
-- Mayor Phil Hardberger reiterated his resolve to bring the Saints to San Antonio permanently, saying he wanted to close the deal before next season begins.
Hardberger, while part of a sellout crowd to watch the Saints-Falcons game Sunday in San Antonio, said Saints owner Tom Benson agreed to serious talks with him, probably at the end of this season.
Benson "understands that we will sit down and talk," Hardberger said in a story in Monday's San Antonio Express-News.
"That is his desire as well. I'm pretty comfortable in saying he wants to be here." Attempts to reach Benson by telephone Monday were not successful. Greg Bensel, team spokesman, declined comment.
The Saints are under contract to play at the Louisiana Superdome through 2010 but certain provisions allow them to opt out before a Nov. 29 deadline.
Gov. Rick Perry watched Sunday's game with Hardberger from Benson's suite and said he agrees the Saints should relocate to the Alamo City and is open to the state offering some type of financial assistance.
Hurricane Katrina damage to the Superdome prompted the Saints to practice in San Antonio and play three games in the city's 65,000-seat
Alamodome. Four other games were moved to Baton Rouge, La., where ticket sales have been sluggish.

When the Hornets took their show to OKay City, the mayor of THAT hamlet did not try to snake us while we were down. It wasn't the mayor of OKC it was Clay Bennett Chairman of private investment firm Dorchester Capital. We can understand business doing that after the storm. Heck, everyone south of I-12/I-10 was looking for a source of income from Houston to Mobile at that time.

So,

Our New Orleans Hornets can hit San Antonio and Mayor Phil right in the prideful NBA championship grin and crack a tooth.

Another Arab proverb goes like this:

“A fool may be known by six things: anger, without cause; speech, without profit; change, without progress; inquiry, without object; putting trust in a stranger, and mistaking foes for friends”

Perhaps the 2005 attempt to STEAL Our New Orleans Saints was an honest mistake?

Beautiful Noise

Many New Orleanians will be at the JazzFest on the historic Fairgrounds, the home of horse racing in Our Country dating back almost 200 years.
Saturday, late afternoon, the horses will make the run for the Kentucky Derby. It has been raining in Lexington. The track will be sloppy. This rules out some of the outside horses because they will have to run exponentially harder to make up ground on the horses with the inside route.

The favorite most praised over the past week is way, way out there.

Some have been questioning the horse most local folk like, Pyro, due to the poor showing last time out. Well, do not count Pyro out so easily as Pyro is running as the number 9 horse.

As for me, I like a certain local jockey on a certain local trainer's horse in Z-number 6 position.

Look for a reasonable surprise for tomorrow.
No Big Brown.
Z Fortune has a shot to give Robby Albarado his first Kentucky Derby.

Picks................................................................................................
Win: 6 Z Fortune 15-1
Place: 10 Colonel John 4-1
Show: 9 Pyro 6-1
Super: 18 Recapturetheglory 20-1

Happy Birthday, Mr. Clio

What do Clio and this guy have in common?

Solitary Man

“Concentration and mental toughness are the margins of victory.”
Bill Russell

It will take vision to make the final cut for this NFL team's roster. Our New Orleans Saints have listed a preliminary roster of players for the season. The new additions included are:

4 Waylon Prather P San Jose State
5 Taylor Melhaff K Wisconsin
6 T.C. Ostrander QB Stanford
10 Skyler Green WR LSU
11 Mark Brunell QB Washington
14 Todd Blythe WR Iowa State
15 Evan Moore WR Stanford
17 Robert Meachem WR Tennessee
20 Randall Gay CB LSU
22 Tracy Proter CB Indiana
24 Chris Barclay RB Wake Forest
30 Lynell Hamilton RB San Diego State
31 Aaron Glenn CB Texas A&M
32 Greg Fassitt CB Grambling State
33 Olaniyi Sobomehin FB Portland Sate
37 David Roach S Texas Christian
38 Rocky Schwartz S Houston
49 Ryan Senser LS Ohio
51 Jonathan Vilma LB Miami (Fla.)
52 Dan Morgan LB Miami (Fla.)
56 JoLonn Dunbar LB Boston College
59 Luke Sanders LB LSU
60 Jeremy Geathers DE UNLV
61 Kevin Tuminello C Georgia Tech
62 Akim Millington T Illinois
63 Nate Mcmanus G Georgia Tech
68 Matt Lehr C/G Virginia Tech
72 Demario Pressly DT North Carolina State
77 Carl Nicks T/G Nebraska
79 Jason Boone T Utah
84 Ryan Titus WR Concrodia (Ala.)
85 Ronnie Ghent TE Louisville
86 Buck Ortega TE Miami (Fla.)
87 Adrian Arrington WR Michigan
90 Sedrick Ellis DT The Ohio State University
93 Bobby McCray DE Florida

Survivior Jackson, Mississippi

Who will be the last new addition standing?

It will take a player who is focused on excellence with a Fleur de Lis in his heart. A man of strength more of mind in addition to body. It is not a game. It is a mission.

Neil said it best:
"and won't play games behind me
Ill be what I am
A solitary man
Solitary man"
(phase in the horns)

September Morn

We danced until the night became a brand new day
Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play
September morning still can make me feel this way

If Neil Diamond only knew what Our New Orleans Saints do for our community in the fall.

Congratulations to the Hornets who are more like a cute fancy for winning last night.

NOW, Our New Orleans Hornets can take up a beat down we ALL have been wanting since the HURRICANE!

Target San Antonio and FIRE!

Today, I am going to the best small po boy shop in the Metro area.

Mano's is just fine.

Family run business.

IT'S ON SAINTS DRIVE!

Post Draft Hype

As the draft is completed, we must rationalize what it's all about.

I can't understand the use of a draft choice on a kicker.

A KICKER.

Why not draft a LunchLady?

Okay, okay. Look at what the draft brought us last year. Only Usama.
Let's get beyond the draft....

beyond what we hope for....

How about an awesome reality?

LINK

We signed Jumpy Geathers son as a free agent out of Troy (State).

Wait Till We cut the Plastic

The aquarium we have of New Orleans Saints players is getting some new purchases. Today we will put one more plastic bag with a fish in it to float atop the water. These players may have been great in college. They may be great in the NFL, we hope. Mr. Ellis has great odds of success as his line coach with Our New Orleans Saints was his coach in college, Coach Orgeron.

We can be realists about all of this. For how many years have we heard the expression, "After a disappointing 7-9 season we look forward to a better year."

In the history of Our New Orleans Saints 7-9 ain't bad.

This morning on ESPN radio, there was about a 5 minute teary Bengals fan fussing about how his team knew that Our New Orleans Saints were moving up to pick Ellis. Ellis was the guy they wanted, supposedly. They just went with Rivers. The fan said the Bengals were like the Detroit Lions and the Arizona Cardinals. He further explained that they wouldn't be going to the Super Bowl for years.

We are living large. We have some solid players coming in such as Ellis. One critical point not addressed in this defensive minded offseason, is that of the kick return specialist. Our media hasn't played up how important that is.

Perhaps because of the open wound from the Michael Lewis departure.

The second round pick, Tracy Porter, is supposed to cover defense and returns. Let's hope he's no Erxleben.

Training Camp in Jackson.

That's when we cut open the bag of these new fish and we'll see if they are swimming or floating at the top of the aquarium in the morning.

20/20 Vision?

There was another game in town tonight. Green Wave versus Tigers.

Our Tulane Green Wave tossed the gauntlet down for the Tigers tonight.
Of the 5,000 seats in the new stadium on Claiborne Ave., Tulane offered a full 58 tickets to LSU for its baseball fans.
58!

LSU went on to beat the Wave on the diamond.
Apparently, hospitality does count.

Every beginning should recognize where we have been.

Manning in the news this week.
Yes, Eli got married in Mexico.

Talk about his Daddy, please.

Archie should get a vineyard as well, shouldn't he?
Like Drew Brees and Bobby Hebert, right?

Well, here's Buddy D. to handle some classic video.


IT HURTS to see Archie running into the Sacredome as an Oiler.

Really, it hurts.
Bum lacked vision.

Pray Coach Payton and Mickey Loomis do not on Saturday.