{"id":5560,"date":"2010-02-08T09:10:09","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5560"},"modified":"2010-02-08T09:10:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T16:10:11","slug":"fanview-lite-february-8-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=5560","title":{"rendered":"Fanview Lite: February 8, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I prefer to think of them as they were<\/p><\/div>\n

Good Morning!<\/p>\n

T-Minus-214 Days until \u201cThe Mid Valley Classic\u201d<\/p>\n

Gosh, did that suck?<\/p>\n

I\u2019m willing to be positive.<\/p>\n

Drew Brees with his son…might sound sort of chick-flick from me…but I thought it was awesome. His greatest moment professionally and his family, his son, is right there with him. I admit I got a little verklempt.<\/p>\n

Even when I disagree so much with the President, I still love it when I seem him his daughters. His love for them is apparent. Brees love for his son, and sense of perspective during an amazing moment, was apparent as well.<\/p>\n

It was nice to see a Purdue quarterback win the Super Bowl again…and it was really cool to see Len Dawson bring the Super Bowl\/Lombardi Trophy in.<\/p>\n

My guess is, if Peyton Manning wouldn\u2019t have been the quarterback of the Colts, Archie Manning would have done the honors.<\/p>\n

I thought Keith Moon looked great yesterday banging the drums for The Who.<\/p>\n

…but they didn\u2019t do Athena.<\/p>\n

Saints HC Sean Payton\u2019s fist pumping the trophy in the air was great. It was great to finally see some emotion from the winning coach. I can understand being stoic, but sometimes being Vulcan-like is ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Payton had just won the Super Bowl and he was enjoying it.<\/p>\n

However, he\u2019s luckier than crud to win after botching the goal to go drive near the end of the first half. The Colts only needed one yard to finish out the half, the New Orleans defense did a good job, Drew Brees (of course was awesome), and Garrett Hartley was perfect from 44-yards.<\/p>\n

That was a case of bad coaching…in everything else he was perfect.<\/p>\n

On the other hand after the goal line stand, the Colts needed to be aggressive coming out of their own end. Sure its dangerous, but they do have the best quarterback in football.<\/p>\n

NFL Channel completely destroyed the first column I wrote in my head after the game. I was drawing up analogies of Manning being the new Neil O\u2019Donnell (The Steeler quarterback who gift wrapped not only a Super Bowl title to the Dallas Cowboys, but also a fat contract for defensive back Larry Brown) after Tracy Porter pick-sixed him.<\/p>\n

The NFL Channel, Deion Sanders especially, did a great job of breaking down the work Porter did in preparation to be able to jump the route that led to the pick and subsequent score.<\/p>\n

It was a great play because it wasn\u2019t off of Neil O\u2019Donnell, Kerry Collins, or Rex Grossman…but Peyton Manning.<\/p>\n

Wow, Sean Payton was a replacement player back in 1987. I wonder if anybody still calls him a \u201cSCAB\u2019 now?<\/p>\n

I know Blue State, Khitikian, and others are waiting for this so let me address it now: New Orleans is a hell hole. The city was a disaster before Katrina hit. All the talk, especially by Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin, of bringing hope and rebuilding this once proud city is vomitous.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been to some creepy places, some sick places, but no place in my life made me as physically and spiritually ill as New Orleans when I visited there in 2005 (two weeks before the hurricane).<\/p>\n

With that said if they are talking about a new New Orleans great. If they are talking about changing what a crooked local government and politicians have created then I\u2019m all for New Orleans.<\/p>\n

The key thing about the Saints success, from an undersized quarterback, to a replacement player head coach, to a film room stud like Tracy Porter is that this was all accomplished by hard work.<\/p>\n

Even \u201cThe Herd\u201d agrees with me. It wasn\u2019t karma, destiny, or the fortuitous nature of the universe. The Saints worked hard and they deserved the victory.<\/p>\n

If that is something the new New Orleans wants to build on then I\u2019m down.<\/p>\n

And by the way….<\/p>\n

Oh, I have always been a Saints fan!<\/p>\n

Stay thirsty my friends\u2026<\/p>\n

209<\/p>\n

Fanview Lite appears Monday thru Saturday at www.midvalleysports.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Fanview, the HD version, appears every Tuesday at www.midvalleynewsonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n


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