The Saints Go Marching In
Kind of hard not to root, at least a little, for the New Orleans Saints. I'm listening to a recap of the Katrina devastation as the announcers discuss what a Super Bowl would mean to that city.
Now we would really, really, really appreciate a playoff berth again, let alone a Super Bowl here in Buffalo, but man, that city deserves a little something.
We all remember the Katrina stories, right? The flooded city streets, the slow response, the people shooting from the rooftops, and looting and not leaving and all of it.
Yet the horror of it all was recapped in a book by a doctor who was trying to help during those difficult times. His book - which I will look up if anyone is interested - recapped the tragedy through the eyes of a man on the battle lines - really good read, but scary as hell.
He spoke of swimming down the street and running into a parking meter because the water was so high. He talks of people in the police department just quitting their jobs because there was no chance to really help.
The crap floating in the water running outside his hospital doors was indeed - crap. Now I don't know about you, but dirty water where you live is horrible - ten feet of it is just wrong.
So, I guess rooting for Brett Favre and his I'm retired-I'm not retired-I'm retired story would be interesting, but the real rooting interest here is for New Orleans.
Bush flew over the city a week after Katrina- never touching down - bringing relief a little too late.
We owe those people yet, don't we?
We can at least root for them.
Until they play the J-E-T-S in two weeks - then it's all about New York, baby!
Now we would really, really, really appreciate a playoff berth again, let alone a Super Bowl here in Buffalo, but man, that city deserves a little something.
We all remember the Katrina stories, right? The flooded city streets, the slow response, the people shooting from the rooftops, and looting and not leaving and all of it.
Yet the horror of it all was recapped in a book by a doctor who was trying to help during those difficult times. His book - which I will look up if anyone is interested - recapped the tragedy through the eyes of a man on the battle lines - really good read, but scary as hell.
He spoke of swimming down the street and running into a parking meter because the water was so high. He talks of people in the police department just quitting their jobs because there was no chance to really help.
The crap floating in the water running outside his hospital doors was indeed - crap. Now I don't know about you, but dirty water where you live is horrible - ten feet of it is just wrong.
So, I guess rooting for Brett Favre and his I'm retired-I'm not retired-I'm retired story would be interesting, but the real rooting interest here is for New Orleans.
Bush flew over the city a week after Katrina- never touching down - bringing relief a little too late.
We owe those people yet, don't we?
We can at least root for them.
Until they play the J-E-T-S in two weeks - then it's all about New York, baby!
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