Girod Street End Zone

Claude Coupee
Lead Correspondent

Confirmation bias n. The tendency to favor information that confirms one’s preconceived notions or hypotheses, without regard to the veracity, quality or value of the factual information.

Ladies and gentlemen, fellow Saints fans, I give you the 2010 Atlanta Falcons, ranked 7th in the NFL by Rick Gosselin in his pre-season (i.e. “early prediction”) rankings (he has the Saints 8th) and an incredible 5th in league by John Clayton (he has the Saints seventh).

Not to mention Mike and Mike know that Atlanta will win the NFC South this year.  Maybe I should just wait for the 2011 NBA playoffs.

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The Goat
GSEZ Founder

Or, as Jerry Romig would say, “HhrrrricK-KAYYYY…JACKK-sonnnn.”

Quite the year, getting a Lombardi and my all-time favorite Saint in the Pro Football Hall of Fame. 

Let us now consider a few thoughts that cross the mind at this wonderful time, upon Jackson’s induction last Saturday.  Note there is a possibility that some of these thoughts aren’t of the type usually found in other broadcast and finger media outlets….but that’s why you clicked on to the site.

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Doesn’t it feel like we finally arrived as NFL fans?  That we’re finally not out there with out noses pressed up against the window, wondering what it feels like, what all the fuss is about?  That was our guy up there on the podium.   They were talking about the Saints, without any pity parties, or dumb qualifiers, or references to bagheads.  There was a true, original, 100% New Orleans Saint getting honored as such.   Maybe there wasn’t a conspiracy after all.

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Claude Coupee
Lead Correspondent

It’s already started.  They just can’t help themselves. 

Every (well, not “every,” I just can’t resist the melodrama) print  and broadcast sports pundit alive is falling all over themselves to predict the Saints not to repeat as Super Bowl champions.

(What does “print media” mean anymore?  We need a new word for “people who want you to write what they type instead of listen to what they say.”  I might go with “read media”, although “finger media” probably says it best.)

It’s not a “no respect” thing, it’s a “desperate to distinguish myself while not taking too many chances about being wrong” thing.  Of course, since The Goat called the Saints as the no. 1 NFC seed right before the season opener last year, we know what not being wrong feels like.   It’s not that we were desperate to distinguish ourselves, but we do want to be right.

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