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With New Orleans under evacuation, Saints head to Indianapolis

Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS -- A hurricane has driven the Saints out of New Orleans again. They don't plan on being gone nearly as long this time.

The Louisiana Superdome was used as a refuge for victims of Hurrican Katrina.

With Hurricane Gustav bearing down on the Gulf Coast three years after Katrina swamped New Orleans, the Saints left Saturday for Indianapolis, where they will spend the week preparing for the Sept. 7 opener against Tampa Bay.

The Saints will practice at the Colts' new Lucas Oil Stadium. Their schedule wasn't immediately known, although meetings were set for Sunday at their hotel.

It is about 1 hour
until the kickoff of the Colts pre-season - well actually the NFL pre-season to be specific.  The Hall Of Fame game starts the Sunday Night NFL games on NBC.  Yeah, these games are meaningless but they are a good warm up and excitement builder for me.  I thought the NFL reserved tongiht's game, The Hall Of Fame Game for good teams - so I'm surprised to see the Skins scheduled for this game.  ---  Oh, I think that was trash talk? Yes.

My "no TV" experiment
may be seeing it's last days.  I'm not extreme enough to go without a TV during football season.  I might have to go and panhandle my way to a new one.  It is wierd telling people that you don't have a TV - they just look at you funny.  I might as well just say that I don't have a refridgerator - the response would be the same.

For the last 10 days
I have been on vacation and I had Circle Face for 8 days of it.  She started missing her mom badly at about day 7.  We were supposed to go to Tenn. and visit my mom but the car took a crap and I had to pull funds away from vacation to get the car back in shape.  I do have solo vacations in Colorado in Oct and Organce County CA next spring which thankfully I pre-paid everything except hotel on those.  I plan to use points for lodging on both trips.

PS: 208 days - a couple of you will know what that means.  It feels very damn good too.

Manning

Crap.
Where did this come from?  Manning Out 6 Weeks After Knee Surgery.  Yet another ominous sign for the 2008/9 season.  As if we needed another one.

Haters up north ... enjoy your gloating ... for the moment.

The NFL decides
the host city for Super Bowl 46 today.  Last year we were out bid out bought narrowly defeated by Dallas/North Texas for the 2011 game.  The pundits claim that we have the better shot if the superiority of last year's presentation is any indication.

IF
we get the game then it will be hosted at Lucas Oil Stadium which opens in less than 4 months.  The first game there will be the opening game of the season for the Colts and the Bears.

Lucas Oil Stadium - Indianapolis, Indiana

Lucas Oil Stadium - Indianapolis, Indiana

Lucas Oil Stadium - Indianapolis, Indiana

So it's playoff time
and we have the following teams in the Championship bracket as of today:

TIG as of today

Get your shit together and fast.
If I don't get to see next Thursday night's game then I am going to be an upset consumer.  You guys and your greed have left the fans in the lurch - as always.  The fact that I don't have the NFL Network nor can I order it on my Brighthouse cable system (aka Time Warner) just pisses the hell out of me.  I don't like going to bars to watch the games so please get your shit straight guys.

I was very lucky
to see last night's game at home due to the NFL's self imposed rules of putting cable games on a local station in the team's home markets (IND/ATL) only.  Next week, if you don't have access to NFL Network or your are not in Green Bay or Dallas then you will not see this game.

Granted there are bigger
issues int he world but this is the one I'm pissed about right this minute.

;)

It doesn't hurt
as bad I thought it would, thankfully.  The Pats were the better team - today.  Good on them.

I think the take aways
from today's game are are that the Pats are overrated but still damn good.  The Colts D performed very well against the best offense in the league.  The Pats' patty cake schedule came to an abrupt halt today and it doesn't look good for them.  The Colts need to get healthy.  I'm hoping to see these guys again in January.

Anyway, I think
both teams will lose 3 more games.

Wowzer!
Colts vs. Patriots tickets going for $5,000-plus.  Ticket scalping is legal in Indiana.  It's too bad we can't ship the Pats to the NFC so that they can actually have some competition against the AFC.

Just getting back to the hotel
and saw on the lobby TVs one Miss Kelly Clarkson singing from the circle.  I think she is so - damn.  Kelly over Faith Hill any day.  They need to pull back on the shots of downtown circle so that viewers can see the whole thing.  I'm still bummed that I'm not at home in downtown Indy enjoying the festivities.

On Johnny Cougar
- please take that guy and Larry Bird and export them to Arizona or Alabama or something.  Both of those guys are so far past their expiration dates they make chunky milk look nipple fresh.  If you've ever heard Mellancamp get diarrhea of the mouth then you will know what I mean.  This guy is one of the most stupid liberals I've ever met.  Nothing wrong with the liberal part ... the stupid part is what makes him an embarrassment to his state and his politics.

My orals went well today.
I'm down on a couple screw ups but my peer reviews came back great.  We will see.  We should find something out on Sep 20th.

PS to John Mellancamp: Please smoke some more cigarettes.  Your face doesn't look enough like a retreaded tractor trailer tire already.