On a Monday Night in 1994: John Elway and Joe Montana battle it out in a shoot out at Mile High. Joe Montana throws the game winning touchdown with 8 seconds left.
On a Monday Night in 2000: The Jets make a miraculous fourth quarter comeback from a 30-7 deficit against the Dolphins to win the game in overtime.
On a Monday Night in 2006: Dennis Greens gives me my favorite new saying: “They are who we thought they were” following an amazing fourth quarter comeback by the Chicago Bears over his Arizona Cardinals.
On a Monday Night in 2007: Something will happen when the 5-7 Saints and 3-9 Falcons face off, but no one will know, because no one will be watching.
And by “no one,” we obviously don’t mean the Chicks. After all, we’re masochists. We say bring it, no matter how painful that “it” may be. Besides, there are worse things than being a Saints fan and knowing your playoff hopes are shot, your two starting running backs are out for the season, and your coach makes crappy decisions. We could have been born Falcons fans. Their season was over before it even started. And to top things off, there’s a pretty darn good chance things won’t look much brighter in Dirty Bird land next year.
In the midst of our own troubles, there’s nothing wrong with engaging in a little schadenfreude (taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune) especially when it involves our dastardly longtime rival. And lucky for us, the list of problems in Atlanta is long: new head coach who didn’t endear himself to his players early on, star QB lands himself in the pokey, a not so merry-go-round of other QBs trying to replace him, locker room dissension thanks to loud mouths like Alge Crumpler and DeAngelo Hall, plus lots of injuries. The only real bright spot for the Falcons this season has been seeing 47-year old Morten Andersen continue to kick field goals padding his stats as the NFL’s all-time leading scorer.
The Falcons have decided to make another change at quarterback this week (as if it will matter.) Backup QB Chris Redman has history with Bobby Petrino going back to their days together at the University of Louisville. Redman was working as an insurance salesman when Petrino gave him another chance to play in the NFL last spring. Redman is getting this opportunity because neither Joey Harrington nor Byron Leftwich has had any success in firing up the Falcon offense this season. Atlanta has the second-worst scoring average in the NFL with 14 points a game. With that said, the Saints have a history of making several untried quarterbacks look like the secret spawn of a Tom Brady and Peyton Manning shack up.
The Saints also face the task of shrugging off their palpable disappointment from losing last week’s game. They need to take advantage of the opportunity to start their potential four-week run against a clearly struggling team. (By that we mean DESTROY THEM!) The next three opponents (Cardinals, Eagles and Bears) all present more of a challenge than the Falcons. This is the week for the Saints to get into a rhythm that will sustain them through the rest of the regular season and put them on the right track for an improbable, yet still possible, playoff appearance.
Chicks Prediction: Saints 21 – Falcons 10
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C’mon, you have to finish the “Who Cares” post with a bang, not a whimper; now’s the time to really take it to those asinine incompetent losers.
Follow LSU and the Hornets, anyone whose nicknames do more than sit and glow, ones who can produce some sort of painful feeling on a human being.
Be strong, and you really don’t know how good it would feel in the end.
The only better feeling would be if you got the chance to play quarterback in the 31 team size NFL Varsity League
(taking into account 87 years of NFL history!!!)
PS: Looks like you would vote option 2 on my MNF outcome poll: “Falcons play high school football”, in that scores case, however, it looks like little league.
PS #2: Can’t stop this 40 year old blood, can only feed off of the inevitable: inexplicable disasters that persistently and continuously haunt the franchise known as the saints.
By the way, yeah, season’s over.
Hey, this time it took a full 12 weeks!!!!!!!
It could be worse, we coulda been born Falcons fans. Yeah, you right.
The Saints will win tomorrow night. Even though Reggie Butterfingers Bush scares me whenever he gets the ball, I think he needs the experience to reach his full potential. So it sucks he’s out.
But yeah, at least we’re not Falcons fans.