Saints and Sinners

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Just wondering what the Cincinnati Bengals are trying to accomplish. For a whole decade this has been the team without any discipline, lots of legal issues, drugs, arrests, etc. Let's try to clean up the team image, right?

Heck no! Linebacker Rey Maualuga was arrested for drunk driving last month. The Bengals have reached an agreement with WR Matt Jones, who didn't play at all last year "after he violated his plea deal after a cocaine arrest last summer." They are also interested in Adam Pacman Jones, who missed all of 2007, a man with a legal profile longer than some bills in congress. They have considered signing Donté Stallworth, a wide receiver who was suspended the whole year after killing a man while driving drunk. They are also going after Terrell Owens, one of the most psychologically screwed up athletes on the planet. Their star running back this season was Cedric Benson, a play waived by the Bears after being arrested twice for driving while intoxicated and resisting arrest (one of those being on a boat). Their other star player is wide reciever Chad Ochocinco, the biggest mouth in the NFL. I guess they need another wide receiver since they lost Travis Henry (God rest his soul) who had more run-ins with the law than seasons in the NFL.

Who will they go after next, Michael Vick and Maurice Clarett?

This franchise is so screwed up it's amusing.



I haven't written anything new in my blog since the Super Bowl, just in case anybody chanced to check out my pregame notes recently. I believe I was almost exactly accurate in everything I noted and predicted.

- Colts would not put pressure on Brees.
- Brees would be extremely efficient.
- Colts would make a turnover, Saints would not.
- Saints would score 31 points.
- Peyton throws an interception.
- Special teams advantage Saints.
- Saints defense outplay Colts defense.
- Colts disappoint.
- Saints win by at least 7.
- Very few penalties, injuries, bad calls.
- Exciting game.

The game also produced the most memorable picture moment in Super Bowl history.