we saw that...

new orleans saints win super bowl xliv defeat indianapolis colts 31 - 17

presentation of the vince lombardi trophy to the new orleans saints ... winners of super bowl xliv.

a youtube commenter, says that the song that is played as the trophy is presented is called lombardi trophy processional theme song composed by david robidoux - you can find it on amazon as well as here on itunes.

Sunday, February 7 2010
FINAL
COLTS FALL IN SUPER BOWL XLIV
By Matt Dollinger - Colts.com

A sweet season finished on a sour note Sunday, as the Colts lost to the New Orleans Saints in Super Bowl XLIV, 31-17.

After taking a 10-0 lead in the first quarter, the Saints clawed their way back to make it a 13-10 game early in the third quarter. The Colts would score a touchdown to re-take the lead, but two fourth-quarter touchdowns by the Saints sealed the victory.

In the losing effort, running back Joseph Addai rushed 13 times for 77 yards and a touchdown. Manning finished 31-of-44 for 333 yards, one touchdown and one interception.

indianapolis colts head coach jim caldwell, on super bowl xliv loss to new orleans saints.

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wheels up

5:17 pm cst well, the saints lost but it was a great year. it was probably the weather and statistics as well as turnovers -- before the game fox sports said that domed teams were 0-9 in beating outdoor teams in championship games. in the past fox sports has said that teams that make four or more turnovers almost always lose. the saints had at least four turnovers that we know of.
updated 21 january 2007 the alexandria daily town talk has saints photo galleries for you to view...

according to the new orleans saints official website (see link) the saints are enroute to the windy city.
tomorrows championship game at chicago bears should prove to be a very emotional experience for all. kick off is sunday 21 january 2007 at 2:00 pm cst. according to the nfl website nfl.com/schedules the game will be televised on fox.

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2009 new orleans saints regular season schedule

UPDATE: new orleans saints 2010 regular season schedule
new orleans saints 2010 preseason schedule

other team schedules including weekly schedules and primetime games are available from nfl.com here.

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saints head coach sean payton injured in sideline crash; scheduled for surgery monday

via: twitter @wwltv

Sean Payton not doing his normal post game press conference. Scheduled for surgery tomorrow, according to radio.

saints [4-2] lose at tampa bay [3-3] 20 - 26 in week 6 play. next sunday saints host colts [0-6] at 7:20 pm cdt to play a rematch of super bowl xliv.

UPDATE via: twitter @wwltv

Saints PR man Greg Bensel says Sean Payton to have surgery as early as tonight...no later than tomorrow. ~ tweet

UPDATE-2 monday 17 october 2011 1:02 pm cdt via: twitter @wdsu

Saints' Sean Payton Has 'Successful' Knee Surgery bit.ly/npWi94 ~ tweet

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report: reggie bush to be stripped of heisman trophy

NEW ORLEANS - AUGUST 21: (FILE PHOTO) Reggie Bush #25 of the New Orleans Saints jumps over Brice McCain #21 of the Houston Texans at the Louisiana Superdome on August 21, 2010 in New Orleans, Louisiana. New Orleans won 20 - 38. (Photo by Chris Graythen/Getty Images)

yahoo sports
excerpt:

The Heisman Trophy Trust is expected to strip former University of Southern California star running back Reggie Bush of college football’s top honor by the end of September, sources told Yahoo! Sports.

Bush would become the first player in the 75-year history of the award to have the trophy taken away. The NCAA found major violations in the Trojans’ football program in June and levied serious sanctions against the school. ~ read more

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about the most eventful day in saints history

this afternoon on ringside radio, mark clark from blackandgold.net told host jeff crouere that yesterday was the most eventful day in saints history.

first off saints owner tom benson told the team and staff that new orleans is unliveable. that the facilities on airline drive are occupied by fema and the federal government and that they arent useable. this is despite the fact that nfl commissioner paul tagliabue toured the facility just over a week ago and pronounced it in "first-class" condition.

clark told about saints quarterback aaron brooks how he had complained in a media interview monday about how awful the saints facilities are in san antonio, texas. jim haslett yesterday offered his resignation.

other tidbits include mr clark stating that he believes that "this is an organization thats in complete chaos thats being run by a man who might have dementia or may have alzheimers or something"

"the nfl is intently watching...this is really a tough time right now"

clark prediction: jim haslett will be coaching in buffalo next year.

to listen to the complete interview go here: http://www.freewebs.com/wesawthat2/

new orleans saints versus indianapolis colts in super bowl xliv

National Football League Game Summary Minnesota Vikings At New Orleans Saints

that was a great game. theres nothing that we can add -- other than we'll probably be humming the above tune for the next couple of weeks. come to think of it ... that what dorothy is wearing looks like it could pass her off as a black and gold fan. rose's dress seems to match the colt's colors too.

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new orleans saints 2010 preseason schedule

super bowl xliv champion new orleans saints open their 2010 - 2011 preseason schedule this coming thursday 12 august 2010 at new england patriots.

weeks two and three of the preseason will see new orleans hosting houston texans and san diego chargers respectively.

for the final preseason game, new orleans saints travels to tennessee titans.

the regular season kicks off on thursday, 09 september 2010, with new orleans hosting minnesota vikings.

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FLASHBACK chocolateville .mp3

originally posted: 30 january 2006

**updated** 4:10 pm cst thursday 02 march 2006

a visitor emailed us this morning to let us know that the creator of the Chocolateville song is Chuck Redden. we emailed mr redden for confirmation and just received word from him, below is the text of his email to us:

(ps thanks angela for putting us on the right track)

From: Sunny 105.7 FM
To: wesawthat@gmail.com
Date: Mar 2, 2006 4:05 PM
Subject: Chocolateville

This is Chuck Redden, I own and operate radio station's KWJM and KMBS in Monroe, La.
I am indeed the author and creator of the Chocolateville parody song and also the "New Battle Of New Orleans" heard on Walton and Johnson, and other radio stations around the state.

A 'tamer' Ray Stevens version of that song which I also wrote for Country Radio is shipping to radio this week and debuting on the "Jeff Foxworthy Countdown"

Prior to this I also was the creator and writer of "Trial #3" about the Edwin Edwards Trial which was popular in New Orleans in 2000.

My affiliations are with BMI and Curb records/Nashville

Thanks for you interest.

Chuck Redden
--END--

lmao! someone sent jeff crouere this catchy tune over the weekend and he played it today on his show ringsidepolitics.com - must hear

CHOCOLATEVILLE
by Chuck Redden

lyrics (the best we can tell)

swiggin a forty
at my crib in new orleans
watchin the mayor on the tee vee
he say da city gone come back
and dat itz gonna be mo black
well ya know dat sounds good to me

coz i am
chillin wit my homies right here in chocolateville
(uh huh)
it aint nothing but one big hood
all we are is this one hershey bar and ya know
(ya know)
that its all good

dont want no french vanillia
(no french vanilla)
no swiss mocha either
(swiss mocha either)
just bring on the fudge and the oreos
(bring on the oreos)

got to get back to lootin
got to get back to shootin
(mmmhmmm)
got to get back to dealing and running ho's
(running ho's) (running ho's)

iam chillin wit my homies here in chocolateville
(uh huh)
oh it aint nothing but one big hood
(yes)
and all we are is one big hershey bar
oh and you know its all good

chill now brother

look out

oh when dem saints
oh when dem saints
oh when dem saints come marching in
we gonna look like one great big snickers
when dem saints come back again

now dont you call me no racist
(you aint no racist)
i likes all colored faces
(all colored faces)
black brown and tan even caramel
(and some peach and maybe maroon)
i like cream in my coffee
(cream in my coffee)
i like a light shade of toffee
(a little brown sugar)
hazelnut honey mustard and taco shell
(oh we going south side the border now)

chillin wit my homies here in chocolateville
aww it aint nothing but one big hood
(one. big. hoooood)
and all we are is one big hershey bar
dont you know baby its all good
(livin in chocolateville)

baby its all good
its all good


hear chocolateville now

ringside politics online radio stream
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link to hi-res audio/download page
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if you enjoyed chocolateville then check out new battle of new orleans by clicking here.
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scribd documents had a glitch

we just received an email from scribd which tells us that some of the documents we had uploaded there this weekend had some sort of "event" in which they were marked as private instead of public.

one of the documents inadvertently set to private by scribd is the vikings at saints game/stat sheets we had embedded in our previous post. we've reset it to public and regret the mix-up.

In response to an event that occurred the weekend of 24-25 January 2010, the following documents have been made private and are only viewable by you.

If you intended these documents to be viewable to the general public, you can easily make them public by clicking the links below and changing the visibility from "Private - keep this document secret" to "Public - anyone can see this document":

Citizens United v Federal Election Commission 21 January 2010

Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act 2002

Congressionally Chartered Nonprofit Organizations ("Title 36 Corporations"): What They Are and How Congress Treats Them 2004

National Football League Game Summary Minnesota Vikings At New Orleans Saints

Thanks,
The Scribd Team

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new orleans awarded 2013 superbowl

speaker of the louisiana house of representatives, jim tucker, announced at 4:02 p.m. cdt that new orleans has been selected to host the 2013 superbowl.

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new orleans saints 2010 schedule

New Orleans Saints 2010 Schedule

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NBC live tonight 7:30 pm CDT louisiana superdome super bowl xliv champion new orleans saints host minnesota vikings in week 1 of nfl regular season

UPDATE:The Times-Picayune

New Orleans Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings 14-9 in the season opener at the Superdome

can you believe its that time of the year again already?

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new orleans saints 2011 regular season schedule released

UPDATED: 19 april 2011 nfl schedules with the dates and times released:

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louisiana corporate media front page coverage of the new orleans saints super bowl xliv victory

UPDATE: nbc: super bowl xliv not just a football game

new orleans times-picayune sold more papers today than any other day in its history...game seen by the largest audience in u.s. television history over 106,000,000 viewers in an early estimate...more

courtesy of the newseum

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prominent nola blogger ashley morris passes

via the mosquito coast

we're very shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of new orleans blogger, ashley morris. it was only a few weeks ago that mr. morris and his family were in central louisiana at libuse for the annual czech heritage days.
funeral arrangements are pending and will be posted to his blog: ashleymorris.typepad.com
**UPDATE** funeral information is here.

obituary as published by the new orleans times picayune on thursday 10 april 2008

Ashley Morris, tireless proponent of N.O.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
By John Pope
Staff writer
Ashley Morris, a passionate advocate for New Orleans who possessed the mind of a computer geek and the soul of a rabble-rouser, died April 2 in his sleep in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 44.

The cause of death has not been determined, said Ray Shea, a friend, who said that Mr. Morris had been in Florida to settle family legal matters.

Mr. Morris, who reached a worldwide audience with blunt blogs about New Orleans, loved his adopted hometown so much that he commuted every week to Chicago to teach computer science at DePaul University.

"Ashley divided the world into people who would fight for New Orleans and people who have abandoned us," Shea said. "If he thought you were a friend of New Orleans, you were a saint. All of his saints were the football players, or brass-band musicians, or chefs or anyone who did anything to try to save this city. Everyone else was the enemy."

Karen Gadbois, a neighborhood activist, remembered Mr. Morris as a man who "was not tempered by social conventions to stifle his own voice."

When it came to New Orleans, Mr. Morris wore his heart on his sleeve and his loyalty on his skin. Literally. When the Saints reached the playoffs at the end of the 2006 season, he had a giant fleur-de-lis tattooed on his right shoulder.

Although he was known mainly as an unseen online personality because of his postings at ashleymorris.typepad.com, he received global visual exposure via CNN in 2006, during the first post-Katrina Krewe de Vieux parade. Dressed as a French mime in convict stripes and white face makeup, he stood in a glass case bearing this appeal to the French president: "Buy us back, Chirac!"

"He was a character, a huge, big force of nature," Shea said of Mr. Morris, who weighed about 350 pounds. "He was part Lenny Bruce, part Thomas Jefferson and part Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein," the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

Born in DeFuniak Springs, Fla., Mr. Morris earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Mississippi, where he was a drummer in the marching band, and a doctorate in computer science at Tulane University. He was an associate professor at DePaul.

In his classes and professional seminars, he always found a way to work New Orleans into the discussion, said Mark Moseley, a friend.

Mr. Morris had his students build databases that the federal government should have been using when Hurricane Katrina struck, Moseley said, and he wanted to teach a class on post-storm New Orleans.

Mr. Morris "loved living here, eating here and celebrating here," Moseley said. "He liked life, and he found it kind of distilled here."

Survivors include his wife, Hana Morris; a son, Rey d'Orleans Morris; and two daughters, Annabel and Katerina Morris.

A funeral will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Schoen Funeral Home, 3827 Canal St. Visitation will start at 10 a.m.

Burial will be in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3.

Ashley Morris

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UPDATED nfl properties llc terminates wst... youtube channel

UPDATE: youtube reinstates wesawthat... youtube channel!

wow. of all the crazy videos we had on our channel, we never would have imagined that it would have been the one where the vince lombardi trophy was finally awarded to the new orleans saints that got our youtube account terminated.

we've contacted youtube per their copyright clams dispute information to try and get the contact information at nfl properties llc to see if we can contact someone there directly and get them to reconsider and release their copyright claim. if so our account can be restored.

we've filed lots of counter-notifications. youtube's content identification tool isnt that reliable. for instance sometimes fox news or one of the others would try to claim a c-span public domain video of ours to put ads on the watch page or in the video. obviously a mistake. so we would always file counter-notifications to get their copyright claim lifted.

there was another instance too where nbc filed a copyright claim against our short clip of president obama making his special olympics remark on the tonight show with jay leno. nbc relented and that video was eventually restored.

it looks like they have changed the counter-notification procedure since our last one. this one says

After we receive your counter-notification, we will forward it to the party who submitted the original claim of copyright infringement. Please note that when we forward the counter-notification, it includes your personal information. By submitting a counter-notification, you consent to having your information revealed in this way. We will not forward the counter-notification to any party other than the original claimant.

After we send out the counter-notification, the claimant must then notify us within 10 business days that he or she has filed an action seeking a court order to restrain you from engaging in infringing activity relating to the material on YouTube.

If we receive such notification we will be unable to restore the material. If we do not receive such notification, we may reinstate the material.

so naturally we dont want to file a counter-notification until we can find out from someone in legal at nfl properties llc that they will let it go through. maybe they can and will reverse it on their end.

so we shall see what happens.

meanwhile...massachusetts institute of technology's research project, youtomb* has more information about videos that nfl properties llc has issued takedown notices for.

*YouTomb is a research project of MIT Free Culture. The purpose of the project is to investigate what kind of videos are subject to takedown notices due to allegations of copyright infringement with particular emphasis on those for which the takedown may be mistaken. Although our initial focus is on videos hosted by YouTube, we are interested in other video collections as well.

UPDATE 18 february 2010 paul jackson, esq. the nfl's copyright agent for notice of claims of copyright infringement calls and explains the nfl's trademark protection policy.

the bottom line is that the nfl's position is ... they own everything. exclusively. and will aggressively protect their property.

the nfl will not negotiate a fair use copyright claim or negotiate any alternative at all. nor will they reverse any infringement claim notices they've executed.

so as far as youtube and the nfl is concerned expect any upload there containing any video of any length from any nfl game to have a copyright claim executed on it.

audio of paul jackson returning a call from someone in louisiana who had called for more information about a video clip

Presentation of the Vince Lombardi Trophy to the New Orleans Saints
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8ZL-YATxt0

he had added to youtube that was taken down on orders of the nfl.(nfl properties llc)

his youtube account was also terminated so all of his other videos was deleted.

in a last ditch effort he contacted the national football league in an attempt to work something out and hopefully get the copyright infringement claim reversed and his youtube account restored.

this is what happened...

The National Football League’s mission is to produce a premier entertainment product that appeals to the broadest possible audience.

As part of that effort, we encourage fans and potential fans to identify with the NFL and their favorite team in a variety of ways.

Those efforts include ensuring that fans of all teams have access to a broad variety of high quality, appealing consumer products that bear NFL and team marks and logos.

Those promotional efforts have been successful: We are America’s most popular sport, with over 180 million fans.

~ gary gertzog, senior vice president and general counsel to the nfl in sworn testimony before the house judiciary committee, subcommittee on courts and competition policy 20 january 2010

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yahoo! sports: saints disrespect falcons with celebration

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services today for nola blogger/activist & depaul professor ashley morris

Ashley Morris, a passionate advocate for New Orleans who possessed the mind of a computer geek and the soul of a rabble-rouser, died April 2 in his sleep in Fort Myers, Fla. He was 44.

The cause of death has not been determined, said Ray Shea, a friend, who said that Mr. Morris had been in Florida to settle family legal matters.

Mr. Morris, who reached a worldwide audience with blunt blogs about New Orleans, loved his adopted hometown so much that he commuted every week to Chicago to teach computer science at DePaul University.

"Ashley divided the world into people who would fight for New Orleans and people who have abandoned us," Shea said. "If he thought you were a friend of New Orleans, you were a saint. All of his saints were the football players, or brass-band musicians, or chefs or anyone who did anything to try to save this city. Everyone else was the enemy."

Karen Gadbois, a neighborhood activist, remembered Mr. Morris as a man who "was not tempered by social conventions to stifle his own voice."

When it came to New Orleans, Mr. Morris wore his heart on his sleeve and his loyalty on his skin. Literally. When the Saints reached the playoffs at the end of the 2006 season, he had a giant fleur-de-lis tattooed on his right shoulder.

Although he was known mainly as an unseen online personality because of his postings at ashleymorris.typepad.com, he received global visual exposure via CNN in 2006, during the first post-Katrina Krewe de Vieux parade. Dressed as a French mime in convict stripes and white face makeup, he stood in a glass case bearing this appeal to the French president: "Buy us back, Chirac!"

"He was a character, a huge, big force of nature," Shea said of Mr. Morris, who weighed about 350 pounds. "He was part Lenny Bruce, part Thomas Jefferson and part Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein," the political wing of the Irish Republican Army.

Born in DeFuniak Springs, Fla., Mr. Morris earned an undergraduate degree at the University of Mississippi, where he was a drummer in the marching band, and a doctorate in computer science at Tulane University. He was an associate professor at DePaul.

In his classes and professional seminars, he always found a way to work New Orleans into the discussion, said Mark Moseley, a friend.

Mr. Morris had his students build databases that the federal government should have been using when Hurricane Katrina struck, Moseley said, and he wanted to teach a class on post-storm New Orleans.

Mr. Morris "loved living here, eating here and celebrating here," Moseley said. "He liked life, and he found it kind of distilled here."

Survivors include his wife, Hana Morris; a son, Rey d'Orleans Morris; and two daughters, Annabel and Katerina Morris.

A funeral will be held Friday at 1 p.m. at Schoen Funeral Home, 3827 Canal St. Visitation will start at 10 a.m.

Burial will be in St. Louis Cemetery No. 3.

the big queasy

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