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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rolltide
November 29th, 2012
9:52 am
is it me or does the who dat chant sound like someone didnt ever go to school
Say What
November 29th, 2012
9:57 am
Like “RIDING THE CRIMSON TIDE” a motto that sounds like a Tampax commercial sounds cool TO YOU!?!!
Also, most of the country thinks your “Hey Ya’ll” is not too bright sounding either. Stop trying to judge, stick to real trash talk, and get educated about your own back yard! LOL, one southern state making fun of another….dumb, dumb, and dumber idea!
hateignorance
November 29th, 2012
10:00 am
@Rolltide…what’s your teams chant??? OH, I FORGOT….ALA BACKWARDS BAMA DOES NOT HAVE ONE!!!!! STAY OUT OF GROWN FOLKS TALK!
on brother!
November 29th, 2012
10:00 am
ummm….before calling someone dumb….first learn how to spell y’all. Are you really from the south?
gullible
November 29th, 2012
10:02 am
This might be the all-time dumbest blog thread ever. People arguing over the “classless” event that never even happened. My hunch is the Saints players who started this are laughing over the gullible nature of the Atlanta sports community. Good grief…
summer
November 29th, 2012
10:07 am
Oh Pamela we? youre not on the team
Tad
November 29th, 2012
10:08 am
LOL… FIRED?? Good grief, some of you need to either get a life, get laid or just get some perspective. Apparently some Hartsfield employees spent a 45 sec H&W break throwing eggs at a 10 ton bus for a few laughs. It’s a harmless, funny story for what has developed into a great southern style (almost college-like) football rivalry.
gullible
November 29th, 2012
10:13 am
That video is from Monday and means only that there was a security breach. Again…NO PICTURES OF EGGS ON A BUS you moron! I am supposed to believe 3 players from a team who ran a bounty scandal, urinated on our field, and lead the league in stupidity? I’ll pass. If there was THIS footage on camera…there would be footage of the actual event. SOME player would have taken pictures and tweeted them. Neither has been shown. Move on Falcon fans…and accept this for what it is. An attempt to make us look bad.
cheerboo
November 29th, 2012
10:14 am
why you silly biys fight over who has a ring, when you wont put one on your girls finger
PMC
November 29th, 2012
10:14 am
These D bag’s peed on the field at the Georgia Dome last year and they have the gall to mention the word class?
cheerboo
November 29th, 2012
10:14 am
why you silly boys fight over who has a ring, when you wont put one on your girls finger
giants
November 29th, 2012
10:16 am
sorry hateignorance
the chant is laughable in NY want to count our SUper Bowl rings
Martin
November 29th, 2012
10:16 am
I wouldn’t expect anything different from the failcants and their cry baby fans. You guys talk like your team has won something. Until you win a Super Bowl, you are till second class to the saints.
KLP
November 29th, 2012
10:18 am
Where are the pictures, I can tweet anything, I think it is a ploy to hype up tonights match. If you can tweet you can instagram. Hartsfield has not come out and confirmed or denied the allegations. I can tweet I just married Morris Chestnut, he and I both know that is not true.
fan
November 29th, 2012
10:19 am
wow Saints can dish but cant take it, guess theyre hating that LSU isnt playing Saturday
and the Saints fan, you guys were cool as hell at one point, you gained a lot that have tainted the view of all of you
GO BACK TO YOU OWN STATE
SeenThisB4
November 29th, 2012
10:19 am
The Saints will make it an even dozen victories out of the last 14 games between them and the falcan’ts, 5 in a row, and a half dozen of the last seven in the georgia tent tonight.
Throw all the eggs you want, it won’t stop the inevitable.
Saints 38
falcan’ts 20
Tabatha
November 29th, 2012
10:19 am
oh really…REALLY? I bet you it was NOT the airport workers though! yeah I bet you that. I personally spoke with someone that’s OVER airport workers in Atlanta and they are now investigating this and yes those people that did this WILL BE FIRED!!!! Good riddance..
Furthermore I could care less about what happened in Philly. l’m talking about Atlanta…stay on task…also there are a LOT of people that are from Atlanta and they HATE the sorry Falcants’! yes I have met a lot of smart people that hate the Falcants’! Anyway you Falcants’ fans are fairweather. Let’s see how many of those sorry ugly falcants’ flags will be flying AFTER you lose to New Orleans Saints 2NIGHT and do NOT clinch the NFC South…hahahahahahahaha! Let’s see…Yeah..no let’s wait until you lose your 1st playoff game..as usual.
I have always said…it’s not how you START a season, it’s how you end it.
Last year the New Orleans Saints and Green Bay Packers had the best football season. But did they go to the Superbowl? No they didn’t.
I can’t wait for the game this evening…we are going to tare a new hole in your behinds. Then the NY Giants will tare another one…hahahahahahahahahaha! GEAUX SAINTS!!! WHO DAT BABY!!!!
HATERS!!!!!!
Martin
November 29th, 2012
10:20 am
As for that so called bounty scandal, nothing has been proven, unlike that Atlanta school cheating scandal, which has been proven. Oh, and by the way, since we are throwing insults, why don’t you guys help the Georgia school system out with its graduation rate. It’s last out of all the southern states, at 67 percent, how pathetic.
Dolly Parton's Package
November 29th, 2012
10:23 am
LOL….Those Ramp Workers deserve a promotion
Jeez Manetti
November 29th, 2012
10:27 am
Bounty Gate was real classy, Saints. It’s really classy to accept money for intentionally injuring players. Y’all are at the bottom of the class barrel and in NO position to judge class.
RISE UP ATL!
Martin
November 29th, 2012
10:27 am
Fan- the only reason Georgia is in the sec championship game, is because of that weak schedule thy played this year. No Lsu, no Alabama. They played the little sisters of the poor. You saw what Lsu did to your poor doggies last year. I’m not Alabama fan, but I hope they tare your doggies up. As for the failcants. Remember thy we’re the number one seed a couple of years ago and got the you know what handed to them in that tent.
really
November 29th, 2012
10:30 am
you must be very upset calling the airport , OMG youre a laugh
and to reference other team is an example of pranks good or bad are always a part of team sports
when I lose, Im sorry I dont play for a team nor do you
guess what they all work for the the NFL and hang out after the season, youre making it a
BTY Im from Boston, want to count the SUper Bowl rings there. you loser one ring that was padded for you
Martin
November 29th, 2012
10:30 am
Rise up, can you people come up with something different. Rise up, only to get slapped down by the saints. Lets see, 11 wins out of the last 13 and you idiots want talk about how great your team is, man please.
now this was a prank
November 29th, 2012
10:32 am
The Georgia Tech Train Wreck
School:Auburn
Year:1898
In the early days of college football, the preferred mode of transportation to away games matched the brawn of its athletes: the iron horse. For about a century, it became Auburn University’s mission to reduce this brawn every time Georgia Tech came to town. Students ran grease across the tracks before and after the station platform the night before the game. Catching a greased pig is hard. Catching a greased locomotive is harder. The train flew past the stop year after year, leaving the Auburn opponents with a hefty warm-up as they trekked several miles back to the station.
In 1898, the administration threatened to expel whoever attempted to continue the greasing ritual. Teachers and the like camped out and supervised the tracks until swarms of students in pajamas and bathrobes emerged from the woodwork. Expulsion became impossible — but the students were still intimidated. The tension released in the form of a friendly impromptu pep-rally that became a yearly tradition: the “Wreck Tech Pajama Parade.”
Wutehvah
November 29th, 2012
10:34 am
Wow, notredame sounds bitter… It’s gonna really suck once the SEC tears the Golden Homers a new one in the BCSCG.
Dennis
November 29th, 2012
10:36 am
Tad November 29th, 2012
10:08 am
LOL… FIRED??
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I don’t know who you’re responding to, but yes, Tad, FIRED! If you’re responding to me, please note I said IF it happened. I have room for doubt since it seems to be the same whiners who complained that Curtis Lofton was taunted at the game in NOLA.
If I had decided to throw eggs at a Navy bus at my last AF duty station, it would’ve been to the tune of “thank you for your years of service, Captain, but you can go on home now and forget about your retirement.”
Criminal behavior on the job can’t be tolerated, no matter how YOU might think about it. Grow up.
BayouMuddBuggg
November 29th, 2012
10:41 am
matty sucks!!
BayouMuddBuggg
November 29th, 2012
10:42 am
Atlanta 13
New Orleans 56
coach k
November 29th, 2012
10:44 am
typical of the idiots in the ATL, BUT the falcons will be the ones with the egg on their face when we smack em around again, and they lose in the playoffs, AGAIN
Falcons R 4 Real
November 29th, 2012
10:45 am
You guys are hilarious. This article doesn’t sound real. I can’t believe that the bus was egged and no one took pictures or a video. Just want to say I was in NO three weeks ago and your fans really stinks. We were on Bourbon Street having a good time when your fans starting talking trash to us and telling us that we need to leave your city. I told them they ought to be glad that we were there generating funds in that ragedy a$$ city. Believe it or not, one of them hoodlum tried to fight us. Now was that a “classy” act, I don’t think so. There are thugs everywhere you go, but the Saints (Aints) are true thugs!!!!!!!!!!!!
CAPT-ATL
November 29th, 2012
10:46 am
For all the clowns on ESPN NFCS blog. Proud and I are blocked. We still tossing dem eggs though!!
star falcon-native Georgian-Ivy League Guy
November 29th, 2012
10:46 am
Hey speaking for the prosecutors, we are not tying up our courts, because some people didn’t like the way their eggs were served. Just don’t leave a tip.
Tad
November 29th, 2012
10:46 am
Dennis November 29th, 2012
10:36 am
Yes I did note your post. And thanks… lol your more recent post only served to further illuminate my point. Seriously… IT’S EGGS!! Lighten up!
Buddy Landel
November 29th, 2012
10:49 am
OK, both Tabatha at 10:19 and Martin at 10:27 spelled a word “tare” instead of correctly spelling t-e-a-r. This has to be the same person. I mean, there aren’t two people on the same blog that stupid, right???
Falcon 1
November 29th, 2012
10:52 am
Dolemyte ?? This smack talker that wore a bag on his head for 40+ years…The Falcons have owned you guys since Erxsleben the punter through us a touchdown pass years ago. The Saints will always be considered the dumbest fan base out there….Your owner should have moved the team years ago when he threatened it….Post on your cess pool city’s paper and stay off ours loser…
ASHCAN!!!!!!
November 29th, 2012
10:53 am
When it’s all said and done, i can’t wait to get back on this blog and trash the falcons for losing another playoff game. For all you fans who’s talking super trash right now while the falcons have a GOOD record, don’t get shy and not come on this blog after the upcoming disappointment. Remember the falcons motto is “WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR”. Get ready to clear your voice of that saying.
Buddy Landel
November 29th, 2012
10:57 am
ASHCAN!!!!!- Saints fans are saying “WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR” now. At least ATL is still playing meaningful games. The hammer will fall on the Saints tonight AND next week when Paul Tagliabue renders his decision.
Curious George
November 29th, 2012
10:59 am
How did all those eggs get through the TSA screeners when I can’t even get on a plain with a 3.1 oz. bottle of shaving gel?
Falcon 1
November 29th, 2012
11:00 am
ASHCAN – Stupidity— Lets see it took your thug Aints 34 years to get that first playoff win..WOW you must be so proud of the Saints history of losing….Go back to your cess pool city, it really does stink down there.
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November 29th, 2012
11:01 am
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America spoke
November 29th, 2012
11:01 am
All I can say is there are a whole bunch of folks on here who failed English! “Your” does NOT mean “you are!” “Haveing” is not a word! “Too” is a synonym for “also,” not “two!”I could go one, but why should I waste my immense intelligence on the unwashed masses!
Falcons Win! Dawgs Win!
ASHCAN!!!!!!
November 29th, 2012
11:05 am
@ Buddy Landfall, who the hell crowned you the police teacher blogger???????????????? As long as you know what the HELL there talking about is all that matters!
PMC
November 29th, 2012
11:07 am
Who Splat.
ASHCAN!!!!!!
November 29th, 2012
11:17 am
@Falcon 1 you got it wrong buddy! steeler country baby baaaaby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not a siants fan. And by the way atlanta is the capital of gaylords. lol
Falcon James
November 29th, 2012
11:17 am
ROTF_LMAO!!!
johnny Chisholm
November 29th, 2012
11:21 am
Really sad that Atlanta fan’s have to act like a bunch of uneducated jerk’s, when your team comes to New Orleans they are shown respect by the players and fan’s. This being said your record really does not matter as this behavior makes you the real looser.
ASHCAN!!!!!!
November 29th, 2012
11:23 am
@American spook, there you go with the spelling grama you nurd. This is a blog not a school and like i told your fellow band wagon bretheren, WHO THE HELL CROWNED YOU THE POLICE BLOGGER??????? AS LONG AS YOU KNOW WHAT THE HELL THERE TALKING ABOUT FOOL!!!!!!!!!! LOL
Chris
November 29th, 2012
11:25 am
There should be an asterisk by the Saints’ for the Super Bowl they won…..* accomplished with illegal bounty program.
America spoke
November 29th, 2012
11:27 am
ASHCAN: First, it’s “they’re.” Second, how do you know so much about the A-T-L being a gay capitol?
Buddy Landel
November 29th, 2012
11:33 am
ASHCAN, there are many commonly misspelled words. I have never seen anyone not spell the word “tear” correctly, let alone twice. (or by 2 supposedly diferent people)