Last night, in a thread on Twitter discussing a letter one of the Saints players wrote to Roger Goodell (a move I actually support) some Saints’ fan made a comment I could
not let go.
He said “even if your (sic) not a Saints fan, let’s all boycott the Superbowl (sic) because it (refs taking control of the outcome) will happen to another team eventually.” I looked at that and thought: you’ve got to be kidding me!! Has this person only been a football fan since 2018? Answering my own question: it’s not that. Saints fans live in their own little world. I replied to his tweet that it’s already happened to other teams. Added that at least the Saints had another chance to touch the football again in OT. When “other” teams got robbed, they didn’t always have that chance. My next tweet was the video of the infamous catch heard ‘round the world (Dez Bryant).
One of the people involved in that thread was the weather person on one of our local TV channels...a somewhat local celebrity. She was very nice in her response to me, she said she understood, and she and I exchanged a few tweets after that. I told her I understood the pain Saints’ fans were feeling too...told her y’all are never going to get over it, but lawsuits and injunctions to stop the Super Bowl are not the way to go. That’s just going to annoy Goodell even more. The letter from the team player is a good start. I can also get on board with boycotting the game. As it is, I’m already not happy with the NFL after the 2015 playoffs, the 2017 playoff game, and the 2017 season Zeke suspension.