Saints players say bus was egged in Atlanta
Former Falcons linebacker Curtis Lofton told the AJC’s Michael Cunningham that the Falcons aren’t really seen as a worthy rival by his current team, the Saints, on Tuesday.
A window on the Saints' bus. (Photo by Zach Klein of Channel 2 Action News)TV)
Lofton and his New Orleans teammates may feel differently after their bus allegedly was egged while the team was leaving Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport Wednesday night.
The Saints were arriving in Atlanta for their game against the Falcons Thursday night in the Georgia Dome.
Saints backup quarterback Chase Daniel tweeted this just minutes after the team’s charter flight touched down:
@ChaseDaniel: Wow, as we’re boarding buses on the Tarmac @ Atlanta airport, we start getting eggs thrown @ us by airport workers! Guess they do hate us!
Tight end Jimmy Graham confirmed the incident took place with another tweet:
@JimmyGraham: Bus just got egged after landing in ATL by the ramp workers. Classy! “RISE Up” smh
A third player, linebacker Will Herring, also tweeted about it:
@wherring54 First time my bus has been egged by opposing fans! Tomorrow should be fun!! #WhoDatNation
Hartsfield-Jackson officials are investigating the incident.
New Orleans has won 11 of the last 13 games in the series, including a 31-27 victory on Nov. 11.
But the Falcons are 10-1 and the Saints are just 5-6 this season.
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Pamela
November 29th, 2012
8:07 am
Wow…it goes to show how classless the Falcants’ fans are. So sad. I LOVE the New Orleans Saints! Don’t worry…we are going to beat your behinds again! WHO DAT????
Pamela
November 29th, 2012
8:10 am
First of all, Sean Peyton is dedicated to the New Orleans Saints and has ALREADY decided that he will sign another contract with the. Secondly, it goes to show the world how CLASSLESS the Falcants’ fans are. The Saints are a much better team than the Falcons. Always has been Always will be! WHO DAT????!!! Yeah…we are going to beat your behinds yet again! Just watch and see. Of course the Falcons are not a rival team for the Saints..You are NOT WORTHY enough to be… GEAUX SAINTS!!!!
star falcon-native Georgian-Ivy League Guy
November 29th, 2012
8:12 am
I think those airport workers deserve a raise. Lofton saying that they don’t see the Falcons as a rival speaks more to his low IQ than accurate knowledge of football. Our Falcons will defrock the Saints and the Dawgs will prevail on Saturday.
Ackshun
November 29th, 2012
8:12 am
Last time with 2 of our best out with injury the Saints fans held their breath and it took a last minute play by Greer to save them. NOTHING will save them tonight. Falcons by 14 BANK ON IT>
Jimmy Crack
November 29th, 2012
8:17 am
Good for them. The Sain’ts players are lucky the folks didn’t boil them first.
India
November 29th, 2012
8:18 am
dolemyte I agree with you 1,000%. You are so right. We will see a lot of red seats tonight while THE REAL CHAMPIONS beat their behinds! The Saints will beat the Falcons yet again. It has been proven time and time again the Falcons barely won a lot of those games. Yeah had any other team on the outside of the Arizona Cardinals played the Falcants they would have won that game. The Falcons fans are sorry fans period. C’mon throwing eggs at a bus? Really? yeah that should be considered a terrorist act. It just shows how classess they really are. By the way….New Orleans is a much prettier city than NOTLANTA! The Saints will beat your pants off tonight..Oh and we don’t even have our coach at this moment, but he will be back early next year. Bountygate has NEVER been proven either. Yep. No wonder Atlanta is at the BOTTOM of the education list in this country. You people here are so ignorant! GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!
Jimmy Crack
November 29th, 2012
8:21 am
Besides these Sain’ts players are such weenies they couldn’t even take a little pregame smack talk and had to call daddy the commissioner to complain about our guys TALKING.
In reality there was probably only ONE EGG thrown and the Drew broke a nail diving for cover under a lineman’s butt.
TBALL
November 29th, 2012
8:21 am
FALCONS RISE UP!!!!!
cowboycjn
November 29th, 2012
8:26 am
Shows the mentality of the Alt. fans. Like you stated – the Saints were accused of wrong doing – but it has never been proven. How does that statement go – “Innocent until proven guilty”. But thats right Atl. are the ones thats always right no matter what.
Can’t wait until they serve up baked dirty bird at the game tonight. Falcons are way too overrated.
Wutehvah
November 29th, 2012
8:28 am
The FALCONS have been shaky the last few weeks and need to pull it together tonight. We need a convincing victory. Go FALCONS!!
Tory
November 29th, 2012
8:29 am
Hahahahahahaha! Falcants’ fans…remember those 2 points? hahahahahahahahahaHA! Yeah..the Falcants’ were the LOWEST SCORING TEAM IN A PLAYOFF GAME IN NFL HISTORY! It looks like they are going to repeat that again! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
Isn’t it amazing how all of these sorry Falcants’ fans are now speaking AGAINST Curtis Lofton and less than 6 months ago they were the very same ‘fairweather’ fans beggin’ Blanks classess a$$ to keep him? too funny.. Now they are calling themselves talking about him..too funny. You just have to consider the source that is coming from. I’m certain Lofton is taking that as a compliment..too funny! Lofton spoke the truth. The Falcants’ are NOT a rivarly team for the New Orleans Saints and Actions speaks louder than words..
By the way….why don’t you all tell that nappy headed Roddy “I’ze do anythung fo ya Massa” White to get those plats out of his head, take another English course, and grow up THEN speak! hahahahahahaha! I hope they knock the socks off of his behind. I can’t stand him with his ghetto ignorant self!
LOL
November 29th, 2012
8:35 am
I love how the team who urinates on other teams fields is calling another team classless. What a joke that team is though, so who cares.
whodat70816
November 29th, 2012
8:43 am
LMAO….reading some of these comments.
The article is about Falcons fans throwing eggs at the Saints Team Buses and many Falcon Fans on here says that Saints fans are the worst fans.
I have been to Falcons v Saints games both in New Orleans and in Atlanta and I can tell you that Falcons fans never experience the treatment that Saints fans experience in that circus tent. Last season, things were thrown at us, pour on us and mean and hateful things were yelled at us through out the entire game. I have never seen that done to Falcons Fans at the Super Dome…..at least not in the section I sit in.
Jealousy makes people do mean things….and Falcons Fans resorting to throwing their unhatched dirty birds is a prime example.
It sure will nice knowing that when the Falcons finish the season 14-2 that those 2 losses will have come from their Big Brothers!
WHO DAT!
Dennis
November 29th, 2012
8:52 am
I’ve been a Falcons fan since day one, including going to the first game they ever played, a 9 – 7 loss to the Iggles.
That said: Was a police report filed? If this is true and those guys can be identified, they should be charged with malicious mischief at a minimum,,,, AFTER they’re fired. I would suggest no less if the same thing happened to the Falcons in Nawlins. The IDIOTS who threw the eggs, IF they really did, were throwing eggs at a bus most likely owned and operated by an ATLANTA business owner who would then have to pay to repair any damage done to his bus.
I see a lot of Birds “fans” pointing out prior bad behavior by Saints fans as if to justify this childish, yet criminal behavior, and think y’all need to take a hard look at yourself.
I’ve been to many Falcons/Saints games in the Superdome over the years and have ALWAYS been warmly received by Saints fans before, during, and after the games in the quarter. And yes, I always wear my Falcons colors.
Grow up, jerks.
Dennis
November 29th, 2012
8:59 am
whodat70816 November 29th, 2012 8:43 am….
I can’t say that I’ve ever seen Falcons fans mistreat Saints fans in the Ga. Dome, but I agree with your post.
It’s nice to see a Saints fan who doesn’t act like Hiram Saint or Seenthisb4. I would never want to run into them in Nawlins because they are the type fans you and I detest.
Reid in EAV
November 29th, 2012
8:59 am
This is horrible. Truly horrible. And I’m disappointed.
They should have used ROTTEN eggs!
Suck the faints! Rise up!
star falcon-native Georgian-Ivy League Guy
November 29th, 2012
9:03 am
“Innocent until proven guilty”? It is more like innocent until proven broke. I Suggest cowboy fans stay out of this grown folks’ NFC South football rivalry. The Cowboys can’t really handle any team from the mighty NFC South. You need to focus on the Redskins and those Giants.
Big Dog 89
November 29th, 2012
9:03 am
We can eliminate any GT fans from participating in this act.
GT fans have grown accustom to losing.
Joshua
November 29th, 2012
9:04 am
Throwing eggs at the bus is classless. Let the team get to the dome in peace. We don’t want any excuses to downplay the beating that they are going to get tonight…
Spikes Up
November 29th, 2012
9:05 am
Hopefully a Falcons win tonight to eliminate the Aints from the playoffs will be enough to send all these Aints fans home. We’ll even toss in a few bars of soap!
BayBreeze
November 29th, 2012
9:07 am
If eggs were thrown, it would be easy to tell. Debris or FOD as they call it at the airport is cleaned up as to not be sucked into the jet engines. So if you have some idiots throwing ANY type of debris in that area, then they need to be dealt with swiftly and harshly! I don’t care who was on the plane, Saints or Sinners, throwing debris is not acceptable!
1lovefalcons20
November 29th, 2012
9:07 am
i love passionate intense falcon fans..GOOD DEAL INSTEAD OF EGGS NEXT TIME THROW ROCKS OR STONES….COME ON ATLANTA FALCONS BEAT THE SMALL MARKET TEAM CALLED THE AINTS
VOR
November 29th, 2012
9:08 am
WOW!! This is a new low, big burly millionaires accusing airport workers of throwing eggs in a secured area at the airport!! aint players should be ashamed of themselves!! Don’t they know people will lose jobs for stunts like this, in these hard economic times one would not risk losing their job with a stunt like this. Where did they get the eggs from?? Another airport worker?? I would really like to know if airport security has a video of aint players boarding the bus and dodging eggs. Oh wait all these guys have cell phones that can record video and take pictures!! Where is the evidence?? There is none!!
Shunnie D
November 29th, 2012
9:09 am
LOL….RISE UP OUTTA ATL
Saintsation
November 29th, 2012
9:11 am
Sad some people will lose their job over two teams who could care less about them personally! I love football and our rivalry with the dirty pigeons, but you can’t take anything personally, and a true fan sticks to football talk. The scum of Atlanta, is no different than the scum in New Orleans!
Regardless, feel free to stop by my house in Marietta tonight for some Failcant Gumbo….WHO DAT!!!!
tim
November 29th, 2012
9:12 am
I’ve been all over the USA
NOLA is by far the dirtiest city in America………
Rotten eggs for rotten players
DHO WAT
November 29th, 2012
9:12 am
HOAX! What is classless is professional athletes making up a story like this and putting blue collar workers jobs on the line. SHAMEFUL!!!
Hardhat
November 29th, 2012
9:15 am
If Atlanta is so bad and has no class why are you here?
Why do you look at the pictures on the AJC ?
The way you write I can guess someone from Atlanta has to read you the paper.
Kennesaw Falcon Fan
November 29th, 2012
9:16 am
I have been to many Falcons games over the years. I will be there tonight. The worst, rudest, most classless fans I have encountered at the dome are always the Saints fans. Apparently they have no life other then living through the Saints recent success. The Saints have an excellent QB in Drew Brees, and then a bunch of thugs They have won a super bowl, which is now ancient history. Move on with your lives, Saints fans.
kp404
November 29th, 2012
9:18 am
REALLY,..LAST WEEK AGAINST THE 49ERS DID A NEW ORLEANS SAINTS GET KICK OUT OF THE GAME FOR KICK A 49ERS PLAYER ON THE GROUND SMH LOL LOL….O YEAH WHAT ABOUT THE BOUNTY SCANDAL BUT YALL SAY WE CLASSLESS LOL LOL……
17th
November 29th, 2012
9:19 am
LOL at the clown calling The Saints a “small market team,’ you should be a comedian. Travel the world and you will see Brees jerseys all over, I saw one on a person in Australia (PRE KATRINA). Now seriously, how many Atlanta fans are outside of Atlanta? I don’t think even half of Atlanta is a Falcon fan…Braves, yes, Falcons, NO! Falcons were smart to copy the color of the Dogs, or you’d rarely see red and black around here! I hardly EVER see Falcon support in this city (not counting the last three months) and it’s still just a murmur! Atlanta radio 790 was begging fans this week to act like “Saints Fans” and be there for their team. REAL die hard Falcon fans are rare and nice to come by, they usually treat us Saints fans like family (step children, but still family).
17th
November 29th, 2012
9:20 am
Enter your comments here
JD
November 29th, 2012
9:24 am
Are you sure you weren’t egged by those you had a bounty on? How about it Favre? Where were you? As far as the Saint who claimed he urinated on the field, it doesn’t count when you wet your diaper and it leaks.
Falcon fan 24-7
November 29th, 2012
9:27 am
How would you like your eggs?
Go Falcons, let’s wrap up the division title tonight!
1/3 of the Falcon season ticket holders are Ain’t fans, they change colors for the Aints game and wear black and red during the rest of the games.
The Broncos will beat the Bucs on Sunday.
Wutehvah
November 29th, 2012
9:28 am
This story would need to be confirmed before I believe it. I can’t imagine airport workers pulling such a stunt at the airport, but I guess you never know.
I was a season ticket holder for years (leaving during the Vick fiasco), but the Saints game was always my favorite to tailgate. I was offered tons of (great) food, beer, etc. by many Saints fans, and I never had any issues outside of the normal trash-talking. Haven’t been to a Saints game in 2 years, so maybe that has changed.
Go FALCONS!!
Saintsation
November 29th, 2012
9:29 am
I just want to denounce “Tory” the saints fan above! As a diehard WHO DAT, who has been attending Saints/Falcons games for over 20 years….that was just ignorant (and racist) what you said about Roddy White….and I CAN”T STAND RODDY WHITE (mostly for his post Katrina comments)! Half of New Orleans has dreadlocks you ignorant clown, jump off of the band wagon and go find a new team!
Stick to football trash talk people! Judging people, comparing cities (we both have BIG issues,I’m from N.O., but live in Atl.), is pretty small minded, and childish! I love a true fan that can trash talk to you, but shake your hand at the end of a day! Geaux Saints, WHO DAT!
falcons
November 29th, 2012
9:31 am
Close game and i think saints fans are worried cause they know were GREAT NOT GOOD anymore #RiseUp
ASHCAN!!!!!!
November 29th, 2012
9:33 am
Falcons still will not make it to the superbowl, all this hype over another good record. Someone need to tell the falcons the real season starts in the playoffs. That’s all the falcons ever been is all hype.Fans sticking there chest out when soon there will be a pen stuck in it to let all the hype out. And no not a saints fan steeler country baby! oh yea i know some smart fan who think they know what there talking about will talk about our record this year, that’s ok.You need to get intouch with mr blank and tell him to contact mr rooney(A real owner) and tell him to give mr blank, smith and crew the blue print on how to make it to a superbowl. It’s gonna cost ya! The falcons collect certificates we(Steelers) collect trophys, remember that smart falcoon fan. And oh yea, tha
e saints got yall number, yall crack on the saints and can’t even beat them without a coach. What that says about the turdy bird organization???? SUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saintsation
November 29th, 2012
9:34 am
@Wutehvah…it’s the band wagon jumpers that cause trouble for most teams! How many times has the Saints come through ATL airport with no problems? Many! But I bet those airport workers never paid attention to the the Falcons other than the year they went to the super bowl and this year, NOT real fans. A real fan would not celebrate this act of foolery! I would not be happy with New Orleans fans if they did this…You can NEVER say New Orleans is not a hospitable, and welcoming place to Falcon fans…they love it there!
Tabatha
November 29th, 2012
9:34 am
Wow…whoever was involved with egging the New Orleans Saints are about to lose their jobs! Good! That is so unprofessional what the workers did! Yeah they will be in the umemployment line tomorrow! They are so stupid! There are cameras EVERYWHERE. Even places where they don’t know and they were on film doing this! I’m so happy they are going to be fired!
This is NOT how you treat anyone. When you are in a professional environment like the Hartsfield Jackson Airport you KEEP your personal feelings, beliefs and opionions to yourself.
I guess these sorry Falcants’ fans think that it’s O.K. that this happened, but baby..it’s much deeper than that! Atlanta is known for being the friendliest city in the south…well I beg to differ. This treatment of these football players is NOT acceptable!
I have tweeted this and I also placed this on my facebook page for the world to see! Yeah…..
For the Airport Employees at the Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport that did this, I hope you have a back up plan..because you are on your way out of a job and it’s well deserved! Good riddance.
So unprofessional!
9th ward
November 29th, 2012
9:36 am
FalconFan24….LMAO! ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!!!! Can’t even comment, just laughing AT YOU and your PIPE DREAMS!!!!!!
CAPT-ATL
November 29th, 2012
9:39 am
Word from a credible source says a wealthy financier out of NYC is behind this utterly dastardly deed. Sources name El Goodell as the money man for the 2 dozen grade A projectiles. Two dozen shell caseings were recovered by the TSA and are being sent to the NFL offices as evidence. Sources also believe that it was an inside job, as all of the Saints issues have been inflicted internally. Either way, it is apparent that no one likes the Saints, internally or externally. On a side note, the Egg that hit Jimmy Graham hit him in the hands and he dropped it. No word yet if the NFL stats dept will add that drop to his league leading total.
gullible
November 29th, 2012
9:39 am
This cracks me up….with all their cell phone cameras and NOBODY took a picture and tweeted it? My bet is this is a hoax. And all of you bought into it. Mission accomplished by the Saints.
Gritz Blitz
November 29th, 2012
9:39 am
The Saints were served eggs sunny side Rise Up!
oh really
November 29th, 2012
9:40 am
at dolemyte
and thats why youre on an Atlanta paper site posting comments , really?
Atlanta is aull of transplants who have a home team else where, thus who cares
and as joke, nationawide the who dat cheer is laughed at as you sounding like you didnt make it past the third grade
oh really
November 29th, 2012
9:41 am
@ Tabatha
followed sports much?
philly fans have done much worse, fans in Oakland beat up, thus an egg toss is hardly the hype that got your knickers in a wad
oh really
November 29th, 2012
9:44 am
hey pook own us, isnt that a pro slavery comment, not the proper terms in these days just saying
gullible
November 29th, 2012
9:45 am
Again….IT NEVER HAPPENED! These are pro athletes with the best technology around…and NO PICTURES. And no film being talked about from Hartsfield. THEY PLAYED YOU PEOPLE!!!
westie
November 29th, 2012
9:50 am
yeah as one said where are the photos of the eggs
and the mistreatment by falcons fans my family is from another team fan base and love coming tot eh dome, said they have always been treated well
sec#1
November 29th, 2012
9:51 am
This text book college – high school rivalry prank, not worth of the hype the media spins before every pro sport match up, It was a little mean spirited but OMG
I was in attendance when Saints played in Atlanta last year. Saints fans were rude making harassing comments in front of children threatening harm to people when they cheered for the Falcons, This isn’t hear say I say it in front of me , Alcoholic sales were cut off during third quarter. Fans escorted out by the police
People in Atlanta donated their time and monies after Hurricane Katrina which hit more than just the city of New Orleans (with a warning people, duh) ( I was a volunteer at the hospital to help )
Many moved here after New Orleans, ok to love your home city but trashing another doesn’t make you look better , and why don’t most move back, for whatever reason you’re here now , mind your manners! Don’t be ingrates
Let it go people,. All teams have a few jerkwad fans on board