Why would they get a hero's welcome? They were the first place LOSERS!

You lost me at 'amazingest'

Well there was like 20+ inches of snow in Indy. Granted, it had been a few days... but a lot of people were still stuck.

Might have been 30 or 40 otherwise :)

Bart: Thanks for letting me skip school to see the team come back from the championship, dad!

Homer: I always say, a boy can learn more at an airport than he can in any school.

Team member: Hey, look! There's a big crowd to welcome us back even though we lost...

Moe: Hey, I'll give you something to cry about, you loser! You can't catch a football? Let's see if you can catch a rock!

[A riot ensues.]

pah - Buffalo threw 2 or 3 PARADES for their Super Bowl-losing teams. 11 stooges at an airport is nothing.

Marshmallow Jones: pah - Buffalo threw 2 or 3 PARADES for their Super Bowl-losing teams. 11 stooges at an airport is nothing.

New Orleans greeted their team at the airport when they returned from every away game this year. Thousands of people were in attendance. This started back in the 2006-2007 season after the saints lost the NFC Championship game in Chicago.

I'm not commenting on Buffalo, no, but rather that some fans and I'm looking at you Indy, know how to do it right.

OtherLittleGuy: I_C_Weener: real shaman: Why would they get a hero's welcome? They were the first place LOSERS!

Bill Polian and Jim Irsay and Jim Caldwell guaranteed a superbowl victory by resting the starters and giving up on a chance of a lifetime perfect season. They said, by doing that, that the only thing that matters is winning the Superbowl. They didn't deliver. They don't deserve any different treatment than they gave the fans.



As opposed to having a perfect season and losing in the Super Bowl:



/hot like Gisele

In other words, the same result with a better record (plus the bonus of respect from your players and fans)? I'll take it.

Truthiness: In other words, the same result with a better record (plus the bonus of respect from your players and fans)? I'll take it.

You seem to think that the Irsay family cares about the fans...

OtherLittleGuy: I_C_Weener: real shaman: Why would they get a hero's welcome? They were the first place LOSERS!

Bill Polian and Jim Irsay and Jim Caldwell guaranteed a superbowl victory by resting the starters and giving up on a chance of a lifetime perfect season. They said, by doing that, that the only thing that matters is winning the Superbowl. They didn't deliver. They don't deserve any different treatment than they gave the fans.

As opposed to having a perfect season and losing in the Super Bowl:

/hot like Gisele

WHO DAT trying to deflect attention from another Manning postseason choke? WHO DAT?

goddamn it, I told Polian he needed to rest the starters in the AFC championship game but NO!, he had to go all out to win a game that will be soon forgotten and costs the Colts the Superbowl.

Executive IDIOT of the year.

ElwoodCuse: Moe

Came here for this, leaving satisfied.

"We still beat out 30 other teams," added Marilyn Kurek, Lebanon, who wore a Colts cap and scarf to fend off the 27-degree chill.

Congratulations, out of all the teams that didn't win, your team came the closest to not losing. Maybe you should take up horseshoes?

The Saints were going to have a parade win or lose.

Now, of course, the parade will be the largest in the city's history. Link (new window)

GimpyNip: Nobody likes a smug team, and in the Super Bowl the smug team learned that they have to actually win the game to get the championship.

XXXVI: Rams vs. Pats
XLII: Pats vs. Giants
XLIV: Colts vs. Saints

What do all these games have in common?
Team one showed up for a coronation, team two showed up for a football game.

Well, it's not like Peyton was gonna get off the plane and shake their hands to begin with...

Nabb1: GimpyNip: If Brad Childress organized this there would have been 12 fans on the tarmac.

WIN

seconded.

seriously though, couldn't the offensive starters' moms show up too? that's just cold.

I was hungover still, so I didnt get to go down to the airport.

But this was the scene in new orleans.

Link (new window)


Reportedly 20k+ people just for a glimpse at their cars, mostly.

Everything here is shutting down early. We had 20,000 people at the airport to see half the team drive by. Payton had the championship trophy in the front seat of the car with him and would periodically hold it out his sunroof.

There's so many things that makes this team special, but what I love the most is that the love seems reciprocal. The players and coaches 'get it' that we're a little goofy about the team and the way we show our support and instead of shying away from it, they embrace it.

Before any of the haters get in, no, a Superbowl won't build a house. However, as is noted in the "Soul of New Orleans" piece on YouTube (paraphrasing) The City loves the Saints not because they are a distraction from their troubles, but a reflection of their rise.

The day before the Superbowl, blacks and whites overwhelmingly voted in a new mayor and kept the good councilmembers.
The only place we dropped the ball was on the assessor's race.

It's a good time to be a New Orleanian.

GimpyNip: Speaking of the Chargers, I think they should get some tortured fan points for having the last two QBs they drafted win Super Bowls (Brees, E. Manning)...for other teams.

Nah, I was cheering my ass off for Brees on Sunday. Besides, the Chargers couldn't win even when he was their QB.

jake3988: Well there was like 20+ inches of snow in Indy.

Uh, no. Six inches tops. And airport access is just fine.

Colts fans are just weak.

Cheops: Marshmallow Jones: pah - Buffalo threw 2 or 3 PARADES for their Super Bowl-losing teams. 11 stooges at an airport is nothing.

New Orleans greeted their team at the airport when they returned from every away game this year. Thousands of people were in attendance. This started back in the 2006-2007 season after the saints lost the NFC Championship game in Chicago.

I'm not commenting on Buffalo, no, but rather that some fans and I'm looking at you Indy, know how to do it right.

Hell, I saw on the news that when the Saints came back from the basically meaningless game 16 loss at Carolina with the starters sitting out there were several hundred there to greet them, and it was at night, cold and raining.

toonz: XXXVI: Rams vs. Pats
XLII: Pats vs. Giants
XLIV: Colts vs. Saints

What do all these games have in common?
Team one showed up for a coronation, team two showed up for a football game.

That.

You couldn't be more correct. I'm no Saints fan, but after all the hype surrounding Manning and the Colts, I really wanted them to lose.

Um...so yeah, if you go to Indianapolis International Airport your something like 1/2 mile away from the players.... Just saying

toonz: Nabb1: GimpyNip: If Brad Childress organized this there would have been 12 fans on the tarmac.

WIN

seconded.

Thirded

Nabb1: gilgigamesh: Of course, it doesn't hurt that it falls in the middle of Mardi Gras.

LOMBARDI GRAS FTW!

Yeah, I'm still trying to decide how I feel about "Lombardi Gras."


You can always go with Dat Tuesday

/I wish I could come
//Car needs a brake tag, and i'm not getting towed.

Civil pride?


Huh?

toonz: GimpyNip: Nobody likes a smug team, and in the Super Bowl the smug team learned that they have to actually win the game to get the championship.

XXXVI: Rams vs. Pats
XLII: Pats vs. Giants
XLIV: Colts vs. Saints

What do all these games have in common?
Team one showed up for a coronation, team two showed up for a football game.


I think you're confusing a team being "favored" by the media, and a team whose players are actually smug or arrogant. It's easy to confuse for retarded people who don't watch sports, so don't worry, you're not the first. The Rams and Colts did not show up to those Super Bowls looking for a coronation, their QB's were classy all week prior to the games, and the players refrained from talking shiat. At least as far as I remember from those Rams, they were a classy team led by a classy QB. The Pats were a little different, but then again the circumstances were also different. They were going for perfection, and were a bit over-confident. Not necessarily a bad thing, but you would be hard to argue that the Pats weren't arrogant that entire season from the coach on down. So rather than saying stupid shiat because you don't know any better, you might want to pay more attention to the game, the players, the news, and the statistics surrounding the game. I know it's hard to do with your head so far up your ass, but give it a shot.

And if you're trying to imply that the Saints winning was some sort of colossal upset on par with those other games, you also may want to pay more attention to the regular season next time, rather than jumping on a bandwagon after the game is over. The Saints were a hell of a team this year, with one of top offenses of all time led by a QB who is increasingly solidifying his place in the Hall of Fame. They won 13 games in a row, barely lost two after that, and didn't even try in their final loss of the season. Then they steamrolled the Cardinals, and played strong against the Vikings but had to rely on a little bit of luck to win. They were still one of the best teams to make the Super Bowl in recent memory. The Colts were a little bit better on defense, little bit worse on offense, but they were favored mostly on the fact that the core of the team has been there before, and if you know Super Bowls you know you bet on experience. But that's still just the media, you understand the Colts don't work for ESPN, right? If you're trying to act like this Saints team pulled a huge upset on a smug Colts team, then you're not giving nearly enough credit to the Saints, you're giving too much credit to the Colts, and you know nothing of how the Colts, their coaches, or their players act. I didn't see a single current Colts player or coach say anything even remotely condescending about the Saints all week. And the only people giving more praise to the Saints than the Colts themselves, were the Colts fans. Minus one or two stupid pricks that can't handle football without turning into a douche (the Colts fan equivalents of people like toonz or gimpynip), I don't remember a Super Bowl where the losing fans were any more gracious to the other side leading up to the Super Bowl and afterward, than the Colts fans this year.

I hate that it had to be our team that was in the way of such a feel-good story like the Saints, but I'm really happy to see them and their fans enjoying that victory. They earned it so thoroughly with that Super Bowl, there's no way anyone can say the Colts deserved to win. No shiatty calls, no controversial plays, just two great teams led by future hall of fame, top-10 all time QB's, playing a solid game until the end. The Saints won, the Colts didn't, and I doubt this is the last time either one makes the Super Bowl with the foundation of their current teams in place.

Sweet Chin Music: GimpyNip: Speaking of the Chargers, I think they should get some tortured fan points for having the last two QBs they drafted win Super Bowls (Brees, E. Manning)...for other teams.

Nah, I was cheering my ass off for Brees on Sunday. Besides, the Chargers couldn't win even when he was their QB.

This. Brees is a great guy and the Saints were very easy to root for in this one. It was weird how nervous I was for a game that didn't involve my team but Manning came through in the end.

IAmRight: GimpyNip: Speaking of the Chargers, I think they should get some tortured fan points for having the last two QBs they drafted win Super Bowls (Brees, E. Manning)...for other teams.

Charlie Whitehurst didn't win a Super Bowl!

I came here to essentially say the same thing, because I saw you also post the exact same thing in another thread

Whitehurst (round 3 2006)
Burford (round 7 (2002)

Brees was in 2001.

Cheops: Marshmallow Jones: pah - Buffalo threw 2 or 3 PARADES for their Super Bowl-losing teams. 11 stooges at an airport is nothing.

New Orleans greeted their team at the airport when they returned from every away game this year. Thousands of people were in attendance. This started back in the 2006-2007 season after the saints lost the NFC Championship game in Chicago.

I'm not commenting on Buffalo, no, but rather that some fans and I'm looking at you Indy, know how to do it right.

We'd be spending our time building up our levees for the upcoming hurricane season so our city doesn't get wiped out again, but, you know... whatever your priorities are. ;)

Passive Aggressive Larry: Giant wall of butthurt.

He was right. The Rams expected to win, the Pats expected to win, and the Colts expected to win. Maybe "coronation" was a bit hyperbolic, but he was right.

I_C_Weener:
I still think it had more to do with Polian and Irsay and Caldwell saying "We are in it for the Superbowl only." And then not delivering a Superbowl win.


Well, not to defend that decision (I hated it as well), but what's wrong with putting the Superbowl as your ultimate goal? Doesn't everyone say no one remembers who came in second? If so, why would you care about anything but winning first? Are you telling me the fans would have shown up in larger numbers if the Colts tried for 16-0 but still lost the Superbowl? If so, that's weak, and also doesn't match everyone's attitude of "win the big game at all costs".

Likwit: Passive Aggressive Larry: Giant wall of butthurt.

He was right. The Rams expected to win, the Pats expected to win, and the Colts expected to win. Maybe "coronation" was a bit hyperbolic, but he was right.

Don't all teams, though? What's the first thing an underdog says in their victory speech? "No one believed in us, but we knew we could do it!" Oh, so the expected to win then.

Look, it's the Superbowl, both teams respect each other. The winner always tries to make it sound like their opponent was all snobby and stuck-up and didn't give them any respect.

BUT WE TOOK IT FROM THEM! THEY WALKED INTO OUR HOUSE WITH THEIR NOSES IN THE AIR, AND WE DOMINATED THEM!

Yeah, same old story. Everyone tries to paint the same picture of them not getting respect until they take it. Just because you weren't the points favorite in Vegas doesn't mean you were disrespected and you pulled a great upset.