News: The NFL released the much-anticipated 2008 schedule earlier today. The Saints will open the season in the Superdome on September 7th against last year's division champs, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The NFL awarded Saints fans with two Monday night home games -- one against Adrian Peterson and the Vikings in Week 5 and the other against Brett Favre's replacement, Aaron Rodgers and the Packers in Week 12. The week before their bye (Week 9), New Orleans will travel to London to take on the San Diego Chargers on October 26th. Finally, for the third consecutive season, the Saints will travel to Chicago in the winter -- this time on Thursday night.Who Dat Say: Break out your Dome Foam -- this is great news! Based upon their opponent's W-L from last year, the Saints have the 5th easiest schedule in the NFL (the easiest, funny enough, was awarded to the Patriots -- go figure). The Saints' season opener, both Monday night games, and the season finale are all at home in the friendly confines of the Superdome. The home opener against the 2007 NFC South Division Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be huge for obvious reasons, as will both Monday night games against playoff-caliber teams, Minnesota and Green Bay. The only apparent bummer is that we'll be heading to the Windy City in December after consecutive trips there the past two seasons have resulted in losses. Hopefully, the third time will be the charm. Ironically, too, we host the Carolina Panthers to end the regular season. If you recall, the last time this happened the Saints ended up getting one game away from the Superbowl.
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You might also recall, Champion, that Carolina at home to end the season was also somewhat recently
(2002)the scene of a disaster. Try to picture Aaron Brooks throwing an interception at the sideline to end the game as none other than Jake Reed waved his arms like a windmill allerting all who would bother looking that he was wide open and alone in the endzone for the win - a win which would have sent the team to the playoffs (position created by crappy Falcons blowing season finale). Reed was nearly 54 years old, granted, but there was no one within 15 yards of him in center field.
Aaron Brooks = flaming bag of poop
agreed
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