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Now get a room…

Who dat gonna get some?

Ha, good luck with that! That’s about the only thing that AIN’T happenin this week in NOLA.  Actually according to reports the hotel industry per capita is peaking like never before(the city of New Orleans lost quite a few motels and inns due to guess who…that chic everyone keeps talkin about that came to the Big Easy and wrecked shop like a bia, so it could be even crazier this week) and people from all over the south are pouring in to Bourbon St. by the thousands pumping life into an economy many people thought had been all but snuffed out. (haha Brownie, tell me how N’AWLINS taste!) In my heart I couldn’t be happier for Louisiana and especially the city of New Orleans.

Cultural Capital of the South

You see I lived in Lafayette for long enough to explore the region and really found myself getting lost in a state that borders Texas yet seems like it’s on another planet. I spent quite a bit of time in PRE Katrina New Orleans feeling myself being pulled into a world of culture I didn’t even know existed just hours away from Htown. Voodoo so thick you would breathe it in like smoke, food so delicious you would walk miles just to get a crawfish pot pie,  laws so ass backwards that you could pull up the daquiri shaq drive thru window and get a frozen hurricane, or frozen jack and coke to go, with scotch tape around the lid as to not be an open container, the real cajun women there are gorgeous and just naive enough to make a city boy like me feel like a big shot which is always good for the ol’ ego. One of my best buds Al Reed owned a record store on the corner of a major thuroway and the downtown cross street of Lafayette and I have never had so much fun being as unproductive as I’ve ever been, its just a LA thang.

Chargers, call Brees and ask him how it tastes

The way I saw it, the people  in LA lived life the way they root for their football team. Love unconditionally, party, work hard enough to get by yet expect minimal results after decades of disappointment. The football team had kinda taken the same qualities. That all changed after the people New Orleans were socially and enviromentally cleansed on that fateful week in August/ September 2005 and the city had to literally start to rebuild from the ground up, while after seeing their home used as a morgue for the people that could not get the proper medical attention, the Saints prepared to do the same thing. And boy did they rebuild, bringing in Superbowl MVP Drew Brees and Sean Payton were the first 2 bricks that were laid and still holding that foundation up strong as ever as the cornerstones of that victory over the Colts and looking to add more hardware to the mantle in the next 5 years.

As far as the Colts go, I think we ALL jumped the shark on cannonizing #18 as the greatest thing since sliced deli meat because I had these flashbacks to just a few years ago when we all said that Peyton is no Tom Brady or ever be a Joe Montana let alone win a big game. The most telling stat to why he is so pedestrian at best in the playoffs is his .500 record at 9-9. If this was anyone else not named Manning, he would be dragged over the fire, rolled over glass, and hung on the 50 yard line. Yes he has a ring, but if it’s measured in rings alone as some so called “experts” believe, that makes Big Ben, Tom Brady and Troy Aikman practically immortal. P. Manning is one of the greats of our era, let’s just ease off the knob slobbing for a few more years and see how the Colts bounce back.

Over all it was a great game and I think it lived up to the hype which was leading up to the SuperBowl which was mostly all about Dwight Freeneys ankle, which reminds me…that dude is a freak of nature coming back on 2 weeks rest to play effectively in the first half on a torn ligament in his ankle and the only real threat to Brees in the backfield early with a vicious sack. That’s all for now, come see us on Thursday Nights from 7-9pm @ Freebirds Burrito in Shepherd Plaza Houston Texass baby for more sports talk with a beat…until then NOLA, party on!