Saints call Falcons ‘classless’
The New Orleans Saints — still trying to put the infamous “Bountygate” scandal behind them — are calling the Falcons “classless” after handing Atlanta its first loss of the season Sunday.
From USA Today:
“They were talking (expletive) to our guy Curtis Lofton,” Saints linebacker Scott Shanle told Mike Silver on Sunday night. “I couldn’t even understand them. They were just walking all over our drills trying to mess with him. (Linebacker Jonathan) Vilma went and told their coach it was classless and they didn’t even say anything. It set the tone for the day. It was classless and they got what they deserved.”
Lofton is a former Falcon playing in his first season with the Saints.
Vilma, by the way, is only playing while he appeals a year-long suspension for allegedly participating in a program that paid players for injuring opposing players.
Some of the Saints players were also offended by a dance video made by Atlanta safety William Moore.
The “D-Block” rap video was posted on the Falcons’ website over the weekend.
“That video would never be allowed nor would our players make a video like that in our locker room,” NBC’s Pro Football Talk quoted an unidentified “Saints source.”
Of course, the Falcons have done their part to stoke the rivalry, which has been dominated in recent years by the Saints.
Last week, Roddy White told the Journal-Constitution:
“I don’t like nothing about the Saints. The colors. The city. Nothing. But they’ve got some good food, though. Other than the food, nothing.”
After Sunday’s game, White refused to credit the Saints.
“It’s not like they came out here and won a game,” he said. “I think we kind of gave it to them.”
Shanle, however, told Yahoo! Sports that Sunday’s result just proves the Saints “own” the Falcons.
“They’re like our little brothers. Deep down they know they can’t mess with us even when we are having a down year,” he said.
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First
November 13th, 2012
6:55 am
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Taylor
November 13th, 2012
6:55 am
yeah, but wait until the Saints come to the Dome in a few weeks… we will take care of business in our own home!
SEC
November 13th, 2012
6:57 am
Lazay-Lay Bon-Tom Roulay
Ain't No Saint
November 13th, 2012
6:59 am
“Classless”? Well spoken by a bunch that GOT PAID to be classless. So the Falcons were ragging an old teammate. That is just part of the spirit of “getting an advantage”. Send the Ain’ts a bunch of diaper wipes!
First
November 13th, 2012
7:06 am
All of a sudden, the Saints are the staple of class. I love it. I’ll give you five bucks to knock DOB off the website.
Iloveuga
November 13th, 2012
7:08 am
NO calling someone classless-too funny!
Mike Bell 790
November 13th, 2012
7:09 am
First?
Lance
November 13th, 2012
7:11 am
Pay for Performance has been going on since the inception of the league. If you do not realize that by now you are totally out of the loop on what goes on in professional football. Everyone “GOT PAID” to perform. The question is it paid to injure and to date there is still NO proof that occured. A bunch of he said – she said. Let’s at least tell it like it really is.
Joanna
November 13th, 2012
7:21 am
Who cares if the “Dirty Birds” win at the dome the fact that ya’ll lost to the Saints who are not even doing to good this season is enough said! Who Dat!!!!
Maggie
November 13th, 2012
7:21 am
What’s that old saying “the pot calling the kettle black”
Orlando
November 13th, 2012
7:27 am
Lets stay classy, and not stoop to their level of ignorance.
Nativebird
November 13th, 2012
7:31 am
Ha. The owners of the one and only evdesigned developed and implemented Bounty program to injure other players for cash
PreyDawg
November 13th, 2012
7:33 am
Lance is going to enlighten us all. Thanks Lance aka Drew “I’m an apologist for cheating” Brees. We all understand what the Saints were doing. Anyone with eyes saw the cheap shots they used against the Falcons the last couple of years. We saw what they did to Farve in the playoff game which is the ONLY reason they won. The Saints were willing to end careers and give guys life long injuries as long as they won. And people apologize for them??? Who are the Saints to even say the word class?
Nativebird
November 13th, 2012
7:34 am
Ha. The owners of the one and only true organizational developed designed and implemented Bounty program to injure other players for cash is calling another team classless. That’s the epitome of being in Denial. This Saints team is an exact representation of their City….they both (literally) stink.
Eric
November 13th, 2012
7:35 am
Who cares if some of the players were talking trash to Curtis Lofton…..That’s what happens when you cross enemy lines for the “love of money”…..Now that’s classless! And BTW classless saints is trying to end players careers like some of your leadership as already admitted……..Take look at yourself before you start calling names……..IDIOTS!!!!!!
Debbie Cook
November 13th, 2012
7:37 am
This is a little classless but, some of the Saints had a bounty on quarterbacks! Taunting and hurting with intent to permantly disable someone. Pot calling kettle black.
Bobby
November 13th, 2012
7:39 am
Falcon players can’t even spell the word class, so what’s new.
And Roddy White – you suck.
GEAUX SAINTS GEAUX.
Eric
November 13th, 2012
7:40 am
And “Who Dat” sounds like you can’t pronounce your words correctly……I’m actually kinda feel bad the first person who came up with that prolly had a speach impediment…..
Carroll Akers
November 13th, 2012
7:46 am
As Wilbon of PTI said “the falcons have no pedigree”…they’re not use to winning and don’t know how to handle it. Win a playoff game or two and then talk s_ _ t
Reality Check
November 13th, 2012
7:46 am
Obviously the Saints are just trying to shift the truth from themselves. The saints have been the dirtiest and most classless team in the NFL for decades. They have no idea what ‘class’ is. The field a team of trailer trash and they run their mouths like trailer trash! The Saints are the bottom of the heap. They can’t even show class and dignity when they win, which isn’t a lot.
Kimberly
November 13th, 2012
7:49 am
That’s why they can’t beat the Saints even with the Saint’s having a bad year. They got what they deserved! I don’t care if they go 15-1 the Falcons will never win a Superbowl or even come close. Who Dat!
dean
November 13th, 2012
7:50 am
Joanna is already prepared for the inevitable when the Saints come to town. Having said that, the Saints won. Our Falcons lost. Now the Falcons can get back to concentrating on winning football games and not who can talk the best smack.
SteveL
November 13th, 2012
7:52 am
Truth be told we lost the game. I am sick and tired of getting my season tickets and at least once EVERY single freakin year losing to these a-holes Aint’s. Micheal Turner 13 carries for 17 yards WTF!!! Thats why they think they can beat us anytime!! Too many penalties,We should have gotten penalties for knocking Brees down at least twice but wait,WE DIDN”T even get to Brees not once!!! Mattie Ice and Tony Gonzalez gave us several chances to win the game. Defense Rise Up!!! As for the running game. Jaquizz looked good that’s all I can say!! When Julio got hurt they put two corners on Roddy and two safeties and a linbacker on Gonzalez somebody should have gotten open hint Harry(Douglas)!!
flintrock70
November 13th, 2012
7:59 am
All the bandwagon Aints fans are being their typical moronic self. You still have a losing record, we’re still first in the division. You guys got caught being classless, so just continue to eat your swamp crow. RISE UP!
gary
November 13th, 2012
8:05 am
Really, Aint’s fans… You guys can’t find a newspaper written in crayons that ya’ll can rag on other teams? You guys are the epitome of classless… No other fans in the NFL act like punks like you guys… You will get what you deserve, believe me… If you can’t talk about football then all you do is act like jerks! And, seems the “ladies” down there have hung around the trailer parks too long! Tough talk for trailer park princesses! Geaux to hell, Aints fans!
SWAT Native
November 13th, 2012
8:13 am
Classless? Aren’t these the guys that peed on our logo?
SEC FAN
November 13th, 2012
8:20 am
Hey Aint’s fans, take yo A$$ back to NO and try to clean up that SH$% Hole of a city. How’s Katrina doing by the way? I can be classless if you want but don’t get on here and run your mouth about people being classless. A city takes you in after a disaster and you rob, murder and steal from those people, that’s classless. You pay your football team to hurt other players, that’s classless. Your ex-coach should be banned from coaching.Thug life baby, that’s how we roll !!!!
will
November 13th, 2012
8:36 am
classless from the team that ran it up last year to get brees his stats…and paid players to take out opposing players!?!?!?!?!
Kennesaw David
November 13th, 2012
8:56 am
So, Saints are a trashy team with trashy fans from a trashy city in a trashy state. And they are calling anybody else classless? That is classic.
JS
November 13th, 2012
9:26 am
Don’t like the team? Fine, your preference. Think the city is classless / trashy / dirty? You’re dead to me.
OH
November 13th, 2012
9:40 am
You talk about Katrina but, Karma is a beast. You seen what happen in New York that can Happen any where. watch what comes out of your mouth when it comes to disasters . We can be trashy we can be all of that but, guess what we love GOD” your day is coming no matter what you all say you will not be going to the Superbowl. whats classy about Atlanta, if Atlanta is classy it has classless people living there BTW tell Roddy to hush his mouth and let the work on the field speak for it self grow up!!! nappy head.
Who Dat Nation
November 13th, 2012
9:42 am
Hey PreyDog..anybody with eyes saw on Sunday that the Saints beat your Falcons straight up without any of that “cheating” that you’re whining about! This isn’t 2 hand touch below the waist! That’s reserved for your boys to play in the locker room! This is a real mans sport! Just accept that we beat y’all and you’re not going undefeated this year! Accept it and move on…
And Eric…”who Dat” was so catchy in its own right, that the NFL decided it was gonna go after the intellectual rights of the phrase! Let’s compare that with “rise up”! Is that an Obama campaign slogan? C’mon man! WHO DAT? Say it with me”WHO DAT!”
Fan21
November 13th, 2012
9:56 am
I guess football players aren’t supposed to talk trash to each other. Nobody thought the Falcons were gonna go undefeated. Everybody knows this is a rivalry game. So anything else brought in to this is stupid. The Saints won. Thats all. But talking about natural disasters on a city? Who does that even tie in?
At the end of it all the Saints won’t make the playoffs anyway. So who cares if they won. There still gonna have a losing season, even with the $100 million dollar QB.
Takes One to Know One
November 13th, 2012
10:01 am
These are the same people who were intentionally trying to hurt or cripple players and they have the cojones to call anybody else “classles?” Yeah, riiiiight.
PMC
November 13th, 2012
10:01 am
They interviewed Scott Shanle? Why?
WhoDatY'all
November 13th, 2012
10:07 am
Is there a Super Bowl Championship banner hanging in the GA dome…. Nope, didn’t think so.
the truth...
November 13th, 2012
10:07 am
What is classless is ALL of the garbage “trash talking” that all of the black athletes seem to be compelled to do.
Is this a requirement to do to be a black player in pro sports today….especially basketball and foot ball?
Surely there are some black athletes that have class and don’t have the need to jaw continually and beat their chest like some 6 year old in the back yard……..
Pandora
November 13th, 2012
10:08 am
It was classless for the Falcons’ coach to allow his players to try to taunt Curtis Lofton. They are classless! This is so sad…The Falcons’ players are bullies! So sad.
Pat
November 13th, 2012
10:13 am
Yep..the FALCANS’ players are classless..hahahahahaha! They are also loosers!
Who DAT???!!! 
The truth hurts doesn’t it you sorry Falcants’ fans..hahahahahahaha! So sad..you all are fans of a ’so called’ football team and organization that could care less about you. Where is that big headed Roddy White? With his trash talkin’ highly unattractive self? He is quiet now…yeah….sorry..so sorry…
WHO DAT BABY!!!!! 
The Falcants’ ARE CLASSLESS!
Joe Falcon
November 13th, 2012
10:14 am
Geez, Maybe “Lance” is Lance Armstrong. LOL All this idiotic talk of “no proof.” There’s tons of proof, “Lance,” both that Lance Armstrong was cheating and that the Saints were paying players to injure other players. Just open your eyes and stop being an idiot.
Snarky
November 13th, 2012
10:15 am
Soooo…. let me get this straight. Saying things to an opposing player is classless, but having a picture taken with your players peeing on the other teams mid-field logo is acceptable? It’s ALMOST like the pot calling the kettle black.
bILLY
November 13th, 2012
10:15 am
PEOPLE IN NEW ORLEANS DONT HAVE enough SMARTS TO LEAVE TOWN WHEN A HURRICANE IS COMING.THE WHOLE BUNCH DOWN THEIR INCLUDING THE SAINTS AND LSU ARE CRAZY AS HELL. I WOULD NOT SEND ANY HELP TO THEM FOR ANY KIND OF EMERGENCY. THEY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE. I WISH THE WHOLE TOWN HAD DROWNED.
Dolly Parton's Package
November 13th, 2012
10:15 am
LOL!!! This is the funniest article I have read (dealing with sports) in a long time, so the sAINT’s are complaining about a team being “classless”???? Crybaby lofton was getting (some) of what he deserved and vilma needs to keep his mouth shut and thank God that he was able to play a snap in the nfl this year. Enjoy your little two minute win sAINT’s, it will be by the far the only real win you will have all year!!!!
bali high
November 13th, 2012
10:15 am
So much hate over a football game? For the fans posting on here using the term WE, When did couch patatoes start playing football? Some of you need to get a life.
Pat
November 13th, 2012
10:15 am
Roddy White is a sore looser with his ugly A$$!!! Yeah we beat ya’ll a$$ and will do it again…Nobody like Roddy Whites’ behind anyway. I guess if I was that ugly I would not like any thing either. He is ignorant and stupid! Talkin’ about he GAVE us the game..please..you LOST the game..you ignorant behind stupid bufoon!
ATLalien
November 13th, 2012
10:18 am
bILLY..you are a complete fool! You are an embarrassment for the people of Georgia. Why don’t you go to your trailor and sit there on your plastic sofa with your parents…by the way who are related..aren’t your parents’ father and daughter? Yeah..you hick!
Snarky
November 13th, 2012
10:18 am
Pat,
Why are you bashing Roddy for not saying anything? YOU haven’t been flapping your gums in Falcons chat rooms for the whole season.
George
November 13th, 2012
10:19 am
Falcons and their head coach talk to dam much .They run their mouth like little kids they are out of their league .Falcons are loser and will get their ass whipped at home.
Kitster
November 13th, 2012
10:21 am
New Orleans players calling out the Falcons as “classless” is laughable. Especially Vilma – who was in the middle of the whole Nevin Shapiro thing down at “The U”, and is in the crosshairs of “Bountygate” with the ‘Aints.
But, I guess if I was a New Orleans player, I would be a little pissy too – especially if I had to play all my home games in that 80,000 seat homeless shelter they call a stadium. Who dat? Who dat? Who dat playing for a high draft pick?
Curlyman
November 13th, 2012
10:22 am
Lofton openly admitted he left for a chance to go to a Super Bowl. Of course they are going to taunt him about that. The only Saints going to the Super Bowl will be buying tickets.
Dirtybird82
November 13th, 2012
10:23 am
Now that New Orleans is up and running post Katrina (2006), will you people FINALLY go back home? If you don’t like what the Falcon fans say in the Falcons’ home state, then GO BACK to the swamp! We didn’t ask for you to become residents, but since you are here you need to do as Rome and join in with your NEW HOME TEAM. If not, please board a bus and go back to NEW ORLEANS and be REAL FANS there.
Adam
November 13th, 2012
10:25 am
Vilma to Mike Smith: “Some of your guys are taunting and saying hurtful things to my guys. They’re being classless!”
Smith to Vilma: “OMG you can’t be serious! (pause)……………….HAHAHAHAHA! Get out of my face and go warm-up. This could be your last game this season, Bounty-Boy.”
Rogie
November 13th, 2012
10:27 am
Classless is making a judgment on someone else in the media and not having the guts to put your name to it. Except for Jonathan Vilma in this story everything else is “source.”
Not only classless, but cowardly.
CreoleCat
November 13th, 2012
10:29 am
Roddy White whines and giggles like a girl. Teeheehee!
me
November 13th, 2012
10:33 am
New Orleans is the cesspool of the south.
wp
November 13th, 2012
10:34 am
Cry me a river Saints!!! Ya’ll are so dirty and got caught at it. Its ok when ya’ll were trying to hurt or destroy somebodies career. Call somebody who cares.
falconsjrt
November 13th, 2012
10:37 am
The aints called us classless is like calling the kettle black. Remember aints fans you have bounty gate and that have business in the nfl and thats is classless. Who dat aint s–t! #RISEUP4LIFE!
D man
November 13th, 2012
10:38 am
“The Falcons are the Saints little brothers?” yeah, keep talking chumps. We gave that game to you. It will be payback time in 16 days when we end your comeback playoff plans…
S Gouse
November 13th, 2012
10:39 am
Sooo, the Saints have won 11 out of the last 13 meetings with the “stinky birds” and have a “SUPER BOWL” ring while the “stinky birds” have yet to win a playoff game; hilarious!!!! Roddy, “shut up and catch the ball in the end zone next time!!!!
Clay
November 13th, 2012
10:41 am
Falcons players need to shut their fat mouths when talking about the Saints. That’s because in recent years the Saints have OWNED the Falcons. You look like a fool trash talking when you haven’t been able to back it up in YEARS. This coming from a life-long Falcons fan.
Gloria
November 13th, 2012
10:44 am
Has anyone heard Lofton complain? Could be that is just what players do and it’s all in fun, I can imagine him taking it personal. I was at that game and the way the Saints fans were acting you would have though they had just won another Super Bowel, but guess what “it’s not that deep” We knew this day would eventual come. But come February the Falcons will be back in New Orleans and we won’t be playing the Saints.
Carroll
November 13th, 2012
10:45 am
it’s the pot calling the kettle black-and-gold
Home of the Braves
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
I would have pitty on the Saints but it is their own fault that they are the laughing stock of sports. It will be a long time before anyone remembers them for anything but Bountygate.
tevako27
November 13th, 2012
10:48 am
Eventually the little brother turns out to be better than the big brother. Ask the Mannings.
dood
November 13th, 2012
10:52 am
Roddy, it is “Anything”…you don’t like ANYTHING about the city
I know 5 year olds with a better grasp of the English language. But as long as you can catch a football you can be a great role model for children.
Falcon James
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
When I read the headline, I thought it was a misprint. I was shocked that anyone on the Saint team could accuse anybody of being “Classless”, Don’t they know what the rest of the world think about the Saint?. Now if somebody called the Saint team, they fan, or they City “Classless”, I don’t think anybody would care because that is a known fact. But a Saint player calling somebody else “Classless” who not even on his own team. now that is HYSTERICAL !!!!
Dagne
November 13th, 2012
10:59 am
Pot, meet kettle! Guess what? You’re both black.
Atlanta Falcons: Lacking good manners, refinement, or grace.
New Orleans Saints: Lacking sophistication or delicacy.
Both teams are classless. Just funny that they choose to fight a war over who has the less amount.
Home of the Braves
November 13th, 2012
11:00 am
We could get in a shouting match with the Saints and their fans but they are so far behind us we wouldn’t be able to hear them.
of course
November 13th, 2012
11:07 am
I agree with every single word Roddy White said.
Rise up! (in my pants)
November 13th, 2012
11:07 am
As a lifelong Falcons fan we need to shut up and play the games. Roddy is a great receiver but he talks way too much. Assante with the taunting move and hitting us for 15 yards hurt too. We went from being a well displined machine to a bunch of trash talking players. We all knew we wouldn’t be undefeated the whole season, and with the NFL parity we need to go out every week and execute. The encouraging thing from the game is that atleast we were in it and had a strong chance to win. Finish strong and then send the Saints team some popcorn so they can sit on the couch and watch us in the playoffs. Until then, shut up!
Kennesaw Dave
November 13th, 2012
11:07 am
Boy that takes some nerve to call the Falcons classless when your team has been involved in a bounty program that could have potentially ended some very tallented men’s careers. This has to be one of the biggest examples of hypocracy I’ve seen all year.
Ryan
November 13th, 2012
11:08 am
Do the Saints really think they can call any team in the NFL “classless”? Have they already forgot about those CLASSY BOUNTIES? Sorry we hurt your feelings with a little trash talk. If that is so offensive, go play in the lingerie football league.
FalconFANatic
November 13th, 2012
11:08 am
8-1 > 4-5….Can’t wait to win a Super Bowl in the Aint’s house!!! That will top the bountygate bowl trophy the Aint’s won in 2009. At least the Falcons do it the right way! Remember the Falcons will embarass yall on thanksgiving night in front of the entire nation in OUR HOUSE!!!!
calvin
November 13th, 2012
11:08 am
cry baby ass Saints
Eradicator
November 13th, 2012
11:10 am
Enter your comments here
P0ng0
November 13th, 2012
11:10 am
So Lofton speaks poorly about the organization here, and the players and that’s ok. But when the Falcons talk back (to his face, no less instead of the media) it’s classless? Grow up, NO.
Really
November 13th, 2012
11:11 am
They are both classless.
Stuart
November 13th, 2012
11:14 am
It seems that anyone who goes to play for the Saints must go to the Mississippi River or Lake Ponch. and drink the water because all they ever do is whine about something. It has been like this for years and looks like it will never end.
Clayton Bigsby
November 13th, 2012
11:14 am
There’s a MegaBus parked on Pleasant Hill Rd. All New Orleans residence can get a free voucher to go back home. You must turn in your EBT card and forfeit your unemployment benefits. Good for nothings!!!
Taxi Smith
November 13th, 2012
11:15 am
This from a team that put bountys on other players heads. Consider the source.
ILOVEUGA
November 13th, 2012
11:17 am
SEC FAN 8:20 – AMEN!
True ATL Fan
November 13th, 2012
11:17 am
New Orleans is the dump of the country. No Katrina jokes but the city was a piece of sh*t before the storm and still is. We hate them, they hate us…its a rivalry. To be a grown man playing a violent sport and you turn around like a puss and call someone classless. Who cares? Grow a pair Vilma, Shanle (who are you), and anybody else on that trash team. These are the real Saints with no NFL post-Katrina investments. The city of NO is too stupid to even realize that the NFL invested in them to create a storyline for that season. Yall piss on our stadium logo last year and expect us to “play with class”??? Come the 29th, New Orleans fans might not want to show up in the Dome b/c it’ll det ugly, believe it. Who Dat…stolen from Cincy.
jackie
November 13th, 2012
11:18 am
The entire NFL is “classless” just a bunch of steroid freaks and social lowlifes
Roo
November 13th, 2012
11:19 am
Our city is above sea level.
G
November 13th, 2012
11:23 am
What irony, pay for play thugs calling someone out.
RG
November 13th, 2012
11:24 am
Saints 11-2 vs falcons since 2006. Not even a contest.
Dirtybirdsin'12
November 13th, 2012
11:25 am
Lol, the team which admittedly urinated on our midfield logo calling our team classless. They’ve got a big ol’ glass house down in NO these days; probably should watch the stone throwing.
failcons
November 13th, 2012
11:25 am
sounds like some falcons are pretty mad lol..I wud hate a team to if I’d lose to them EVERY YEAR!! Just face it boys y’all can’t f**k with the saints even on a bad year! 8-1haha see y’all in a couple weeks
Joe S.
November 13th, 2012
11:27 am
When do pitchers and catchers report?
hind tit
November 13th, 2012
11:30 am
The kings of classless calling the Falcons classless. And i suppose trying to confuse another team has never happened in the NFL.
Dee
November 13th, 2012
11:36 am
Their cheating franchise pays their players to injure other players, gets caught, makes threats towards the Commish and they have the balls to call us classless?
Priceless.
VoiceOfReason
November 13th, 2012
11:36 am
Ha ha, the Falcons suck. Another disappointment in a loser sports city!
Nick
November 13th, 2012
11:44 am
So talking trash before a football game is classless, but bragging about urinating on the field in Atlanta is ok? Makes perfect sense.
Zarcon
November 13th, 2012
11:46 am
Yes 1st place in NFC.. still. Its true that the Falcons had their first loss to the Saints, but we already knew it was just a matter of ‘when’ and by ‘who’. For the Saints fans, yes we lost and a win is a win, but the saints did not ‘woop’ us by no means.. Honestly, if the Falcons wouldn’t have missed those 2 other TD opportunities, we would not be hearing a peep from you saints fans. And not to worry, If the Saints lose ANY more games, you are out for the season. And just remember, we get to tango with the Saints again come 11/29, on our turf this time. Wouldn’t it be nice if we gave them the loss needed to be out for the season…
RealATLchick
November 13th, 2012
11:47 am
Classless….? Come on now Aints…a 4-5 record is “classless” and need yall need to go back to “class”!! Next…..!
jack thompson
November 13th, 2012
11:49 am
BEING CALLED “CLASSLESS” BY THE SAINTS IS LIKE A FROG CALLING YOU UGLY!!
Geaux Home
November 13th, 2012
11:52 am
Taking pictures while you simulate urinating on the Falcons’ logo is class.
kimmer
November 13th, 2012
11:53 am
Several points.
1) If what the falcons did to lofton was classless then it was classless. It has nothing to do with what someone else did that is perceived as worse. Trying to excuse it on that basis is moot. Its one thing to talk smack during the game but coming over to the saints side during warm-ups to talk shyte.
2) Anyone who does not think that the goal of most NFL defenders is to knock opposing players out of the game is incredibly naive. Many of the games greatest defenders have stated that was what they tried to do every play. That’s why they call them ‘headhunters’. Ever notice how hard players try to lay a lick on a scrambling QB? . Using a penny-ante (for NFL players) bounty as a motivational tool was a terrible idea but does not make doing the same thing for free as pure as the driven snow. That is also why the officials have a penalty flag and the commissioner the ability to review film and fine. Incidentally, the number of personal foul penalties or players injured playing the saints were not significantly different than the rest of the league.
3) Using Brett Farve to make the point of trying to end a career is not a good example.
Dee
November 13th, 2012
12:02 pm
^^^^Blah, blah blah. A Saints fans attempting to use askewed logic to justify their classlessness.
Priceless.
Sha
November 13th, 2012
12:03 pm
Just Remember saints, you all will be in the A Town shortly, we will deliver the same thing back to ya
JASon
November 13th, 2012
12:06 pm
“’They were talking (expletive) to our guy Curtis Lofton,’ Saints linebacker Scott Shanle told Mike Silver on Sunday night.”
We all need to be aware that these stories are advanced by the national media…who is contractually obligated to support certain teams. The saints sell jerseys.
vince
November 13th, 2012
12:15 pm
This accusation from a group that paid players to injure opponents?
This accusation from a group that urinated on the Falcon logo in the dome?
Really? Seriously?
Andre
November 13th, 2012
12:22 pm
Classless, the same team last year that took a photo on our midField logo.
A
November 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
“I don’t like nothing about the Saints.
Roddy apparently didn’t pay attention at all in school or college. Amazing how you could be in college and not know what a double negative is. Hey Roddy, this means you DO like something about the Saints you idiot. Learn how to speak simple english.
wagreen1
November 13th, 2012
12:25 pm
Falcons fans need to sit down. You have no superbowl win under your belt. You have no playoff win under Matt Ryan and you have been losing to the Saints for the past couple of years. Your fans first of all are not fans just a bunch of arrogant wannabes like the players specifically, Roddy White. You will not go to the superbowl this year are any year in the near future. The Saints have a ring and you don’t thats why you mad. You can’t even beat the Saints in a down year. You sound like Romney and his boys. KICK ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sick & Tired Of Being Sick & Tired
November 13th, 2012
12:26 pm
Anything related to the City of New Orleans, e.g., the Saints, the fans, Bourbon Street, the French Quarter, etc. lacks class. That is why so many of its former citizens did not go back after Katrina prefering to remain in Houston and Atlanta. They will never admit it but the word “CLASS” doesn’t fit anything related to New Orleans.
d
November 13th, 2012
12:27 pm
Shanle isn’t good enough to carry Spoon’s bags. Down year? Big talk from a pretty average player.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
12:29 pm
Ok…say what you will about classless and bountygate, but I’d like to say a few things. One…no matter who left or didn’t leave or whatever else, you bring up katrina, you are making fun of people dying. People, old, young, middle aged…..CHILDREN lost their lives during that storm….are you serious? How can that further, even a little bit, your point about football, ATLANTA? What does men, WOMEN AND CHILDREN dying have to do with your cause here except to cause harm to others who survived and outlasted their family members and friends? Does anyone really think pay for play even begins to scrape the surface of the sick non-human attitude it requires to make fun of children dying? families being broken and people losing their entire life? I am a Saints fan forever, and guess what? I never was paid for play. I didn’t give any money to anyone for injuries. I hate that it even happened….but you scrape open horribly deep wounds, hoping to bring pain to people who may only be browsing this website to look at comments about their beloved team? Maybe even MOST of these fans looking at this sight didn’t pay for any injuries (imagine that….milllions innocent, and a few guilty, which is the truth no matter what comes out of the bounty gate hearings.) And even to that point, listen to all the announcers. I’m not even going to say my opinion on whether or not the saints were the only team that did it…listen to all the ex pro football player announcers, coaches, pundits…….what do they say? Go check it out…it’s all out there and has been there throughout the whole ordeal. You talk smack to a fellow ex-teammate for following the money? WHO DOESN’T follow the money, wal mart truck driver or fortune 500 executive. Where’s the Fault? You want to rile someone up? for an advantage? what does that say about you? that that’s important. That it is somehow important to you winning to get in someones head. who wins like that? I can’t think of any team actually winning a sport or important event that prized that kind of thinking where “it’;s part of the game to get in their head” when singling out an individual with whom they used to be friends. Yeah…you give another team heck, talk trash and all that, but a single player? One you used to cheer? Are you serious? I don’t know what will come of the Saints season, but I know one thing. That 100 million dollar quarterback someone mentioned earlier was not part of pay for play, if anyone was. Plus, he has donated more in time AND money to people needing help than, I would venture even though I could be wrong, the ENTIRE Falcons organization. That’s what class is, even being associated with a team who is going through bountygate. You want to hate the Saints, so be it, don’t hurt those innocent who lost children and family in a natural disaster just to get in someone’s head.
rob
November 13th, 2012
12:29 pm
cause as we all know, the saints organization just echo’s of class!!!!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
12:34 pm
Yeah, there you go rob, nice jab. And to all the saints fans out there ignorantly posting just to post, I sat right in front of about 9 falcon fans talking smack all game. We were talking smack too…..then after the game everyone shook hands and no one cared other than having a little hurt pride. The game is a game, even when you bleed black and gold, you still remember that there are more important things than the scoreboard.
Native Atlantan
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
So “A” it appears you got English mastered. Roddy has his education and career and you’re on a blog teaching English with a lower case “e”. Then you started your blog off with a quote but did not use an end quote. Poetic justice. #IJS
I’m not teaching English but this IS A BLOG and you c-c-c-c-can’t be l-l-l-l-laughing at someone who st-st-st-studders if you have the same i-i-i-i-issue.
d
November 13th, 2012
12:35 pm
Justin
Bountygate was classless.
Saints are classless.
No way around it.
Harry Reid
November 13th, 2012
12:37 pm
Saints are all ghetto!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
12:38 pm
bye the way, every fan loves their team. It’s just a matter of fact. Only difference is how you show that love. You need to hate to feel proud? New Orleans, you are better than that. I have lived in Louisiana all my life and it’s confusing seeing some of these posts from saints fans…..fans who all wear purple n gold on saturday, no matter where you live. It’s all about coming together for a common good, loving the saints and tigers…not coming together to bring another team down…what does that do? They don’t dcare what you say….I promise you that…they are gonna love the Falcons no matter what. So what are you accomplishing? Who is bennifitting from the smack talk? Let it go and just love the game.
Native Atlantan
November 13th, 2012
12:40 pm
Who we play next? Oh yeah, Arizona.
Let the Aints fans continue to be obsessed with us while we keep our eyes on the prize.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
12:42 pm
Ok….well I think that demonstrates my point…no comment about the substance of my message…just the response that New Orleans is classless. It doesn’t matter what you say bloggers….NO ONE CARES…if all these people can overlook all said about death and destruction and still focus on the class of a city based on nothing…….that should prove it……..keep arguing with each other people. You might as well be talking to a mirror.
Native Atlantan
November 13th, 2012
12:42 pm
Justin- you’re alright with me. (except for that purple and gold, lol).
kevinofconyers
November 13th, 2012
12:45 pm
Bad year to yell ‘who dat’, isn’t it? The falcons will add their name to the list of SIX teams that are indeed the answer to your question.
-Redskins
-Panthers
-Chiefs
-Packers
-Broncos
a quick list of DEM dat beat dem saints… Bird Gang will just be #6.
Don’t worry, though- if Taint fans really want to boo the falcons, you’ll get your chance again. They’ll be at that garbage dump y’all call the superdome again on February 3rd. #RiseUP
Justin
November 13th, 2012
12:51 pm
Thanks Atlantan….funny how we can be civil even having totally different teams huh? oh yeah man…kevin…we’ll see…that’s why you play the game tho isn’t it….nothing is ever for sure. To all my Saints fans why talk smack here? Let it go….non of this is important. And before you pose remeber one thing….It is a million times more important to love the saints than it is to hate the Falcons, or any other team for that matter. That’s what makes a fan, not who they hate, but for whom they cheer. Take care Atlanta, I know it’s not everyone in Atlanta writing these posts and personally I prefer a close game than a complete blowout anyway so I look forward to playing you guys again. Stay real. Justin
Ern
November 13th, 2012
12:54 pm
Classless? Sounds like Saints fans to me. And their players are not innocent. They’ve all done the same kind of stuff before too.
little
November 13th, 2012
12:54 pm
the FALCONS are a bunch of bums
Mermaid
November 13th, 2012
12:55 pm
The Aints team was decimated from the GM to the head coach and his staff down to the players because of “BOUNTY-GATE”!! Is paying bonuses to players to mame and put hits out on opponents not the epitome and definition of CLASSLESSNESS???!!! LOL! How can it be viewed otherwise?!? Aints players and fans have NO room to call anyone classless. Shanle and Vilma especially, should quickly look in the mirror before they even think to utter the word “classless” to describe ANYONE other than themselves. In fact, they should just keep a mirror in their back pockets! It’s comical! Hahaha…the Saints organization and their fans are complete jokes!!! Thanks for this laugh, now please go sit ALL THE WAY DOWN on the pointy end of your fleur de lis!!! LOL!!
Zarcon
November 13th, 2012
12:56 pm
@Justin – You nailed it down pretty well. And don’t worry, we are looking forward to it as well on 11/29
Ackshun
November 13th, 2012
1:01 pm
You will have to forgive me if I refuse to attend a lecture in class led by members of the same crew that posed and urinated on the Falcons logo at the Georgia Dome last year.
pikedawg
November 13th, 2012
1:03 pm
I’m sorry…I can’t hear the Saints players and fans yapping from 4 games behind us…they need to speak up
falcon672011
November 13th, 2012
1:11 pm
The saints are the lowest team in the NFL.They have no class and are doing what they do best lie and try to divert attention from there own bull.Why don t just one of your beloved aints stand up and admit the truth just once. The kids follow all of you and think you are so great.You really should be ashamed of yourselves.People in this country hate liars we could accept what you did if you would just admit it and say my bad and move on. The kids are emulating your bull### and you don t even care.Football is a game for warriors not cheaters. Be a man and tell the truth. By the way if Drue wasn t your quaterback u would be the laughing stock of the league. This is the NFL and any team can be any team thats why we play the games.Grow the hell up and learn to act like adults.We are all americans and need to keep that paramount.
RGB
November 13th, 2012
1:12 pm
Feigned indignation from one classless group of people to another.
As my momma would say: “They’re nuthin’ but a bunch of trash” (pronounced “trish” with a long “i”).
yep
November 13th, 2012
1:14 pm
the Saints don’t have any business calling anybody classless.
Larry J
November 13th, 2012
1:20 pm
Can’t wait till we spank that azz and send them back to that swamp they call home. Rise Up!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
1:32 pm
once again, I agree with most of you, saints fans or falcon fans….and again, it wasn’t me peeing on falcon logos. I also don’t think the term classless was meant for the fans. The classless comment was made towards the act of belittling a player who accepted a contract from another team…not meant towards the fans and wasn’t directed towards the Atlanta Fans. Does anyone else feel like they’re taking crazy pills? to identify with one or two athletes as if they are indicative of an entire city is ludacris….if i didn’t feel this way I would think everyone in Atlanta was happy Katrina happened and killed people. Anyone out there really think that’s the truth? That people are happy that people they didn’t know died? C’mon people, we all are proud of our team, not the bad parts, but of our team.. I am white….I am proud of being a white man, but that doesn’t mean I think that slavery was right just because white people did it and I am white. It happened but I wasn’t there. That doesn’t mean I should wish I was black does it?
greg
November 13th, 2012
1:36 pm
Will see you in January in the playoffs Saints! Oh wait we won’t!
ha ha. nice 4-5 record. 8-1 looks a lot nicer to me!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
1:38 pm
greg…..good job at math…8-1 is better. good job. \
Justin
November 13th, 2012
1:42 pm
Anyone else out there have anything to say about the city of New Orleans unrelated to stupid athletes causing you to form an opinion of an entire city? An entire city known for it’s politeness and helpfulness towards strangers……kindness? Maybe not to rival fans…and that just proves my point….you don’t have a falcons jersey on, things are different, just the same as me being in Atlanta without a Saints jersey on brings different outcomes…..go figure huh?
RichestoRags
November 13th, 2012
1:43 pm
That AINT can’t be serious.. Does he know the meaning of classless.. .BOYYYY STOP!
ville dog
November 13th, 2012
1:47 pm
It’s a shame with all the millions ball players are making, that they can’t keep their mouth shut and just do there job. Or maybe buy some class.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
1:50 pm
stop what? You can’t make an intelligent point to save your life. I have condeded all points of Saints fans acting classless because, sadly, it happens in every city. You think otherwise? Please, enlighten me of a city who welcomes those who come to their stadium to cheer against their team? I only bring up important points that I think supercede the game of football, i.e. katrina And by the way, should you group me in with the “classless” city of new orleans based on a few stupid athletes and fans, do you think its fare that I group you in with the people who make light of Katrina and the souls who lost their lives and family during that tragedy? That’s stupid.
BobbyJones
November 13th, 2012
1:52 pm
Hey Falcons fans, look at the scoreboard. Enough said. Sit down and shut yo mouth.
Roger Goodell
November 13th, 2012
1:53 pm
The Saints players were just taking some verbal shots at the Falcons, trying to make themselves feel a little better. After all, at the end of the day, they are still 4-5 with a terrible defense, and their head coach is still sitting in his living room in Dallas. The Falcons are 8-1 and on their way to winning the division. Who dat being envious down on the bayou??
Chadwick
November 13th, 2012
1:54 pm
We are being called classless by the team with the bounty program and coach suspended for the season. In the dictionary there is a picture of the Saints next to the word “classless sh*ts”
Justin
November 13th, 2012
1:55 pm
Roger Goodell….you have anything to add accept what is obvious?
Falcons4Life
November 13th, 2012
1:56 pm
I’ve been a Falcon fan since I was 7 years old. Now, in my 40’s I am pretty ashamed of my dirty birds running their mouth if they don’t put up a W to back it. Great win Saints, you’ve got the best of us and we all should respect it.
wap
November 13th, 2012
1:57 pm
2012 Loosers SEC Championship Georgia, NFL Playoff Falcons, MLB Braves.
Mike Franklin
November 13th, 2012
1:58 pm
The Saints are, undoubtedly, trying to soil their fiercest rival to make themselves look a little cleaner. You kinda have to expect this from them.
Roger Goodell
November 13th, 2012
1:58 pm
Justin, It’s just fun to point out the obvious sometimes. Sorry I didn’t get drawn into your discussion about hurricanes and race relations.
Saints2012Champs
November 13th, 2012
2:00 pm
Ha ha, atlanta just wishes they had a bounty system, maybe they could win a simple playoff game. What a joke – dirt birds.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:03 pm
My discussion…these topics were brought up by Falcon fans roger, not myself. I only seek to bring some kind of civility to the hatred that exists within this forum for no reason. you havent hurt me, nor have i hurt you, but we apparently have confused that with actually harming and offending each other by proxy….wow man….be real…what have I said that is not at least a little bit true? what have I said negative about the Falcons, fans and players alike? Does it make you mad that I am not condemning your team? Would you rather that so you have something to be mad about?
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:06 pm
atlanta does have a bounty system….they pay defensive players. anyone who thinks a professional defensive player doesn’t aim to hurt whomever they hit has never played football before. You get pumped after a big hit…then realize theyre hurt and appologize…..after the fact. Thats different from pay for play i guess….but defenders….that’s what makes them who they are…clay mathews is scary because he can hurt you and will if you get caught slipping….so will ray lewis, jon lynch, brian urlacher, troy polamalu……..best defensive players are great tacklers….and BIG HITTERS
Roger Goodell
November 13th, 2012
2:07 pm
Justin, Frankly I have a hard time following the logic of your posts, so they don’t make me mad. I think you may be taking this all way too seriously.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:10 pm
I hope you don’t confuse what i’m saying with pay for play…….it’s just the nature of being a defender……whose job is, by definition, to hit the player with the ball and make sure they go down. can you imagine if a falcon defender would let up during a hit on a saint runningback who then spins out of a half ass tackle and runs for a touchdown……..but what if they save an injury???? No one would care….because as long as the hit is legal….thats what you are supposed to do…right? Maybe I am confused and need enlightenment
GotARing&ALife
November 13th, 2012
2:11 pm
All this tomfoolery on this blog while the owners of both teams had meals and drinks together while in NOLA. Same as when the game is in ATL. As for you players, shut up an run dat ball like you told to. Dont talk unless your owner tells you to. As for you fans keep buying tickets and getting emotional over something you will never own. Shut up and stay in ya lane as a spectator. Lol! You name calling fans are Such clowns.
Jomps
November 13th, 2012
2:12 pm
How would New Orleans and Jonathan Vilma know anything about class? First, Jonathan Vilma is a University of Miami thug that was part of the entire Saints pay for hurt bounty. The city of New Orleans is the worst city in America with nothing to add to society. You won a game …you are still out of the playoffs so get off the message boards and hope another hurricane doesn’t hit your pathetic city and kill some more cricket’s.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:15 pm
what am i taking too seriously? this all started with people posting about katrina…and you think i’m taking this too seriously. well then maybe answer me one thing……do you think posting that katrina killing people was a good thing…..do you think someone personally affected by that and losing people close to them was too serious? and if so, then why isn’t that important for actual REAL events that MATTER and KILL PEOPLE to inspire a blog? only posting about the falcons is important enough to you to blog about? please, \respond to this.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:16 pm
wow man…another atlanta fan with no problem using death to further their love of a sports team.
d
November 13th, 2012
2:17 pm
Justin, you seem woefully ignorant of the bountygate scandal. You might want to do some research about paying players to put someone out of the game or, worse, ending their career. When you do, I think you’ll find that your Aints are, indeed, classless.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:18 pm
tag: ny times, picayune, time, la times, wall street journal, falcons, saints, rivalry, playoffs, heartless
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:18 pm
Once again, I think any participation in bounty gate to be classless.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:20 pm
maybe it helps absorption of these words if i do single sentence posts….I AGREE WITH YOU….so now give me your input on something besides what hasn’t been my beef with this post.
Saints2012Champs
November 13th, 2012
2:21 pm
Atlanta, the sissy nation. Defensive players are paid to hit people, if it hurts the other player or ends their career, who cares if it is a legal hit. Let’s play some football and stop holding hands. Go watch dancing with the stars if you can’t take it.
d
November 13th, 2012
2:25 pm
you’ve been holding hands? don’t think I would have told that one.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:27 pm
anyone out there think in this scenario that they could do anything other than natural reaction….someone hurts your brother or mom or sister or cousin or family…..so you try to hit them as hard as you can…then someone tells you they will pay you to hit them harder..do you really think you could hit someone harder just because they offered you money? Could you in your blind rage to injure actually target specific body parts?
Atlanta Saint
November 13th, 2012
2:27 pm
Hey Falcons, what was the Giants record when they held you guys to 2points? A record ain’t sh%t! Falcons can still go 8-8 and anyone who new just a little bit about football would not brag on a record. Saints vs. Seahawks playoff, Giants vs. 16-0 Pats. And everybody is saying see the Saints in 3 weeks, you are going to see the same thing again geeez! Same song and dance from the Failcons just a different year. And for a team that has owned you guys in the past 5 years, just shut up and congratulate. Didn’t the Failcons just start having back to back winning seasons but has yet to win a playoff game under Matt Ryan? I would expect arrogance from Giant fans or Pat fans or Steeler fans, but seriously Atlanta? You guys first 8-0 start and your top dogs now? You wonder way no one takes you guys seriously! You guys like to use Ain’t alot so guess who AIN’T won a superbowl! Bounty Gate lol, who has been proven guilty of it, I’ll wait. Ya’ll better get Jamaal Anderson back if he isn’t sharing a bathroom stall with another man! This is all in fun, I was going to say in rivalry but it hasn’t quite been one lately lol!!
d
November 13th, 2012
2:30 pm
hey Atlanta Aint, you are 4-5.
Bobby
November 13th, 2012
2:30 pm
When the Saints come marching through Atlanta for the return match, Atlantans will be thinking Sherman just came through again.
GEAUX SAINTS GEAUX!
Margaret
November 13th, 2012
2:31 pm
Only a classless team would make such a comment.
RORO#4
November 13th, 2012
2:31 pm
First and goal and we’re trying to pass the ball come on Falcons lets run it down there throats next time !! QB sneek or something
demo32trusaintsfan
November 13th, 2012
2:33 pm
Lol.. 13-2 Falcons not a concern nor a threat..
rlm
November 13th, 2012
2:34 pm
Am I wrong or do we play them again this year. We will be ready. As for their comments. Consider the source.
d
November 13th, 2012
2:35 pm
Careful, Bobby. Your friend, Justin has been reacting to statements like that. Maybe you should just focus on getting a winning record.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:35 pm
wow atlanta saint, nice post. gotta give you props for the intelligent rivalry shi* t talking. I bet all that gets said is about bounty gate (and probably only covered material) and the falcons record
earthworx
November 13th, 2012
2:37 pm
Classless? This from a bunch of losers who set up a bounty system on opposing players and then lied about it. Classic projection.
MardiBug
November 13th, 2012
2:38 pm
Looking at the comments above, it looks like the Falcons fans are just the same as the players – like a bunch of kids calling the other kids names. Get over it – you lost. Grow up and deal with it. And try winning a playoff game, much less a Superbowl, before you start running your mouths again. WHO DAT!!!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:39 pm
hey d…he didn’t attack anyone about anything that has nothing to do with football….your atlanta brethren on this website apparently have trouble identifying with my objectives so here they are…be real. If it’s about football, make it about football. not about the city, the people, the natural disaster that killed thousands, you know, that sort of thing.
d
November 13th, 2012
2:40 pm
Mardi. 4-5
oneofeach4me
November 13th, 2012
2:41 pm
The Saints may have one Superbowl title, but let’s be real, in light of the recent findings, they are lucky the NFL didn’t strip them of it. The Saints have ALWAYS played dirty ball… THAT is nothing new. I saw plenty of encounters on Sunday that should have been penalties called on the Saints. But..I digress. I truly believe if the first match up between these two this year would have been in the dome, the outcome would have been totally different. The Saints just used their “dirty” fans to their advantage during this rival game. We shall see how the next match up goes…
Saints fans should also remember that we hold the win in the life of this rivalry 46-41.
Rick
November 13th, 2012
2:43 pm
NOLA – Where America goes to vomit!
oneofeach4me
November 13th, 2012
2:44 pm
@Mardi ~ FYI, the only time that Atlanta and New Orleans have met in the playoffs, Atlanta won that game. We HAVE won playoff games. It appears as though the New Orleans fans are just like their team, with ya know, calling a kettle black because in my opinion, you were the one acting like I child. The trash talking between the players occurred before and probably during the game. But I don’t see where any Falcon’s player is sour about loosing this game. We have bigger things to focus on than the ‘Aints.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:44 pm
you know…It seems like that is the only thing these fans will accept. I have tried admitting the bounty scandall….all i get is no comment…i have tried talking about the reality of football as relates to bounties…also no intelligent response…..and finally I have challenged the use of Katrina as an ammunition against saint’s fans…..also only to an incredibly insensitive disconnect between people dying to make a point and actually using facts and non offensive events to make your point. I hope dateline picks up the atlanta thread
Esquire
November 13th, 2012
2:45 pm
Much ado about oh so little……………
Goodell
November 13th, 2012
2:49 pm
Isn’t this the same team that pee’d on the bird logo in the center of the field at the dome? Poor little Aint’s!
Justin
November 13th, 2012
2:49 pm
yes!!!! 4-5 …no one here cares except they want to do better. New Orleans fans are no longer ashamed of their team and I think never have been past the skin level. I’d rather lose to a losing team than those glorifying a lack of life due to a natural disaster. Please someone who can offer some kind of opposition to my view of a “love your team” fan base to why katrina was good, call in and tell me just that, why katrina, the conversation starter, is so important to the fans on this website.
atlnative
November 13th, 2012
2:49 pm
I’m glad the Atlanta Falcons released Defensive End Ray Edwards,the worst football player I’ve ever seen on the gridiron. Edwards was more interested in his uniform than tackling runners. I want to see the video that led the organization to signing this horrible excuse for a football player!
d
November 13th, 2012
2:50 pm
‘you know…It seems like that is the only thing these fans will accept. I have tried admitting the bounty scandall….all i get is no comment….’
i sense your frustration. maybe you should give it a rest.
ps. the aints are classless.
Tigerpaw
November 13th, 2012
2:50 pm
Classless? How about going 0-4, staying vewwwy, vewwwy quiet…..and I don’t recall a lot of Falcons fans trying to rub it in…..then, bucking up after winning by the last 20 seconds on the clock….and, by the way…. you take half the season to get out of the cellar….still below .500. Elevator down.
R U Surprised
November 13th, 2012
2:54 pm
I lived in Atlanta for 25 years. This is old news. Falcons have always been classless.
Saints2012Champs
November 13th, 2012
2:57 pm
Saints just gave the Falcons fans and players what they deserved. A butt whooping to stop all of that undefeated talk. Check the scoreboard. Enough said. You either win or shut up.
Vulture
November 13th, 2012
2:57 pm
They won and are still b*tchin like like little girls? LMFAO
Peter
November 13th, 2012
3:00 pm
The Falcons have won 8 games and act like they are the New England Patriots. Nothing they do in the Regular Season is relevant. They need to get it done in the post-season to earn any kind of respect. When the playoffs begin everyone will be 0 and 0. Most of that 8 game winning record they beat their chest about were close games that could have gone either way against sub par disorderly teams with the exception of Denver (who is currently balling right now)
The road to the Superbowl will run through Green Bay, Chicago, San Francisco or the New York Giants (who embaraced them last year). Until they beat one of those teams, the Falcons really need to shut up and play football.
The Falcons have no championship pedigree or playoff experience. They swagger around like they are the most dominant team in the NFC. They better be careful or they will wind up like the Dennis Green Vikings teams with all that talent and wont go anywhere. I dont care what their apologists friends at 790 the zone say. The Falcons have great players but they are a little overrated.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
3:05 pm
LOL…..omg…you got me guys. I thought you were really not paying attention to the substance of the arguments here. It’s more that you have NOTHIN to argue about other than things that I myself have acknowledged….aka bounty gat……how can they say ‘what about bounty gate” and we say yeah, i know bounty gate sucked and it shoudn’t have happened and it sucks…..and then at the same time people still act like bounty gate is an important evasive factor….well it can’t be if im saying HEY..BOUNTYGATE HAPPENED…” BUT i guarantee….this willl change nothing.
Justin
November 13th, 2012
3:10 pm
goodbye evasive football fans…continue to only like the things that you know how to argue about yourselves….read alll of my posts….goodbye atlanta ……………talk matters until it isn’t a factor…..goodbye
WhoDatFanInTheATL
November 13th, 2012
3:24 pm
As a New Orleans native and lifelong Saints fan, we were caught breaking the rules and deserve to be punished to the fullest extent (no excuses, no exceptions). We have won 11 of 13 against the Falcons, and look forward to settling the score again on the field on 11/29.
I have resided in Metro Atlanta for nearly 20 years. It’s a great city and highly progressive place to live in as millions have migrated here during the past few decades, and millions more are expected during the next 20+ years – http://www.atlantaregional.com.
However, in my opinion, Atlanta has never been a true sports town and many of its teams only have fair-weather fans. Conversely, as loyal Saints fans, we have and will continue to support our team during the bad and good seasons (i.e., 1-15 seasons or Super Bowl Champs). See you in the Georgia Dome on Nov. 29th!!!
'94 UGA Alumni
November 13th, 2012
3:29 pm
The Saints will be watching the Falcons in the playoffs so this game doesn’t matter that much. Why are ‘The ‘Saints’ called saints anyway? If they are saints I’d hate to think about who are not saints.
I don't know whats funnier....
November 13th, 2012
3:29 pm
The aints calling the Falcons classless or telling them to win something. NOLA backing into one superbowl win does not change the fact that Aints fans invented the paper bag on the head and are arguably the most underperforming team in the history of the NFL.
Saints win Sunday…..congrats. This is the NFL, where any team can beat any team.
Bottom line is Atlanta still was a best friend to New Orleans after Katrina, and of course no gratitude from the crescent ctiy.
I guess the Falcons will just have to be happy leading the NFC.
Also….the Kansas City Chiefs would like to thank the Aints for their lone victory of the year.
turb0
November 13th, 2012
4:10 pm
lol all of you trying to bring up the bounty crap as an example of why the saints have no class, if you have any evidence you might want to submit it to the NFL because right now their case is falling apart like the falcon’s defense.
DatMobile
November 13th, 2012
4:23 pm
Why do they keep calling this a “rivalry”? The Saints have beat the Falcons 11 times in the last 13 meetings. That’s not a rivalry, that’s ownership!
Barry
November 13th, 2012
5:38 pm
1st now but not at the end of the year when it counts, talk about classless just listen to #84 push-off roddy or is that push-off white, a receiver who’s only way of getting opened is by pushing off. And for all you classless falcon fans if you think your going to win one playoff game, much less the superbowl while averaging 7.4 yards per catch, your sadly mistaken, and for the classless falcon fans talking about the SAINTS and the bogus pay for injury lies by goodell, please show us your proof or your just as classless as goodell. What’s the difference between a dirty bath tub & a dirty bird?? The dirty bath tub has a ring. See you in a few weeks by that time the falcons will be 8 & 5 and your season will be headed down the toilet. The only thing with any class in the falcons locker room is Mike Smith, Matt Ryan & Tony Gonzales. WHO DAT!!!
JS
November 13th, 2012
5:49 pm
bILLY, do you really wish peoples’ homes had flooded? Really? I have family whose homes flooded. Luckily, they’re alive.
I’m really hoping you’re not a friend of mine in real life.
BirdBrain
November 13th, 2012
6:09 pm
Wait ’til Spoon is back.
FalconFanNHouston
November 13th, 2012
6:41 pm
classless is crazed fans yelling in my 8 year old daughters face and invading the personal space of a 90 year old grandpa on a cane who just happend to have on a Falcons jersey. Thats real classy of AINTS fans!
Mark
November 13th, 2012
8:02 pm
I watch “Gone WithThe Wind” just to see Atlanta burn
You are the visiting team in your own stadium. No support for your own team. Falcons? PLEASE! Falcan’ts!
Karl
November 14th, 2012
1:04 am
Hey Dirty Birds – win a playoff game, WIN a Super Bowl and then you can talk about the Saints
I.T. Geek
November 14th, 2012
4:58 am
The Saints are CIDR Blocks
Reired Vet
November 14th, 2012
1:25 pm
It would be great for the Falcons to shut their mouths and just go out and play football against the team that has handled them 6 out of the last 7 ganmes. A big smart-ass mouth has never won a game. But as they say, “Stupid is as stupid does”.
Notso Fast
November 14th, 2012
2:42 pm
Talking about Classless…wow ,who’s to talk.
Saints call Falcons
November 15th, 2012
10:49 am
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JoeFalconsFan
November 15th, 2012
11:53 am
Yeah, and it was SO full of class when the Saints ran the score up on us last year so that Brees could set the passing record. Everybody just needs to shut up and play football. Let your play on the field do the talking for you.
senior falcon
November 16th, 2012
4:43 pm
I’m glad to see that the Ain’ts have at least someone who can use “classless” in a sentence. Now, if they would only learn what it means.
TQ
November 17th, 2012
6:12 am
Our falcons need to quit the Singing, dancing, trash talking, and start playing football, like they mean it! Remember when they sung danced, and talked their way to the Super Bowl, then Got Their Asses handed to them, SAME OLD FALCANTS!
David
November 17th, 2012
9:15 am
All- Time series records ATL 46 NO 41,
Largest series victory ATL 62 NO. 7,
Posttseason series ATL 1 NO 1
Playoff Apperances ATL 12 NO 11
Super Bowl Appearances ATL 1 NO1
Mike
November 17th, 2012
10:57 pm
Vilma? Let’s see, where have I heard that name before? …. Oh I remember, he was the Eagle player that was thrown out of the game a few years ago when he got into a fight with one of the Falcons in the warm ups. Probably cost his team the game. So I don’t put any stock in what that idiot says.
dirty bird fan
November 18th, 2012
11:09 pm
hey saint fans..it won’t be long before you go back to wearing bags on your head…we were never that bad..