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Chick Chattin with Zach Strief: An Afternoon of Recipes, Chat, and Football
Zach Strief didn’t know what he was entering when he arrived in New Orleans in the spring of 2006 to join the Saints as a rookie from Northwestern University. While driving into town, he ended up on the wrong exit and found himself in New Orleans East, an area still uninhabited at that point. He had an 1/8 of gas in the tank and there were no open exits. He didn’t know what he was going to do. He even called his father wondering what he was doing here. Now three years later, he looks back at that time and he’s proud to be a part of the rebirth of this region. He also realizes that Louisiana will always be his home, especially since he is now married to a local woman, Mandy Schexnaydre Strief who is a Loyola Universtiy graduate and former Saintsation.














