Super Bowl

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Haha, yep, Pappy, you are right. I am indignant this week, and you know why, having lived it, too. These few excerpts from Bobby Hebert's blog sort of sum it up for me.

I'm so emotionally spent.

When the game was all over, I cried like a damn baby. This meant so much to me. I'm talking on the Saints Spanish network, I couldn't even talk, I was so choked up. I was like, come on, you've got to keep your composure. I couldn't keep my composure... THE FREAKING SAINTS ARE GOING TO THE SUPER BOWL!!!

My eyes are so red right now I look like a damn vampire. I'm just getting choked up again talking to about it, because HELL YEAH the Saints are going to the SUPER BOWL! All the stress and anxiety we've had over the years... We're going to Miami, and NOBODY can take that away from us!

Realistically you have to pinch yourself and say, "Whoa, they are going to the Super Bowl!" Its not like they are trying to get there, or will have to wait until next year, because we have the right team or the right leaders... No, they actually went out there and accomplished it. That's what is so special. But I think as part of the fan base, we're so excited that we're going to the Super Bowl. But as a player, once you get there, you want to win it. No matter what level - high school, college, or professional - when you have an opportunity to win a championship, that's what you want to achieve. So as players, they know it's not finished.

I lived a life few NFL fans can even comprehend, with my lifetime of Saints loyalty. I was born 5 years before the Saints, and for a kid with Saints footie pajamas and Saints stickers all over my door, and a Manning jersey, and an autographed Manning "FREY MEATS" photo, you live and breathe the Saints even though they suck. When something like this happens, you still cannot comprehend how decades of idiotic drafts and poor decisions and bad coaches and bad owners and bad seasons can somehow right itself. But Sean Payton came in and got rid of bad players, good players with bad attitudes and players with bad contracts, and turned a 7th round pick into the most productive receiver in the NFL, and kept players who would agree to let him show them how to win and be successful.

I love Peyton Manning, I am proud of him and proud of Eli. I think the Colts are fantastic. But this season, I KNEW that ALL OF THAT would still not be enough to get them by the Saints.