pft: A BIZARRE STORY FROM THE BAYOU

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A BIZARRE STORY FROM THE BAYOU

Posted by Mike Florio on November 22, 2008, 10:03 p.m. EST

Here’s one from a reliable source that, frankly, is too weird to be fabricated.

Saints owner Tom Benson owns various car dealerships. We’re told that, each year, he brings a mini-fleet of new cars to the team facility in the hopes of getting some of his employees to make a purchase.

As we hear it, the players don’t really appreciate the sales pitch, due in part to the perception that they aren’t offered much of a deal.

This year, some of them made it known.

On Saturday, when players arrived at the facility to continue preparations for Monday night’s home game against the Packers, more than one of the cars was coated in a certain byproduct of the human digestive system.

So much for that new car smell.

It’s believed that two or more players were responsible for the mess, but we’ve yet to confirm the names of the suspects.

http://www.profootballtalk.com/2008/11/22/a-bizarre-story-from-the-bayou/

[doncherry]

When did Charles Haley move to New Orleans?

[dfitzo53]

You might say they gave him a ****ty deal of his own.

[KingRex]

We’re told that, each year, he brings a mini-fleet of new cars to the team facility in the hopes of getting some of his employees to make a purchase.

Wow.

[Seabee1973]

Benson probably thought it was an upgrade to the cars

[HapHaszard]

What can you say? Social commentary?

[3rdgenJen]

Ouch. This is going to be an ugly week in the Saints' camp.

[dockeryfan]

blowed_up says:

November 22nd, 2008 at 10:14 pm

The Saints signed Najeh Davenport???

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[twenty-eight]

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haha ZING! I'm guessing that was in the comments?

[twenty-eight]

SAINTS POOP-ON-CAR STORY CONFIRMED

Posted by Mike Florio on November 28, 2008, 8:42 p.m.

Last week, we wrote that two or more unnamed Saints players expressed their displeasure with owner Tom Benson’s efforts to persuade them to buy cars by smearing excrement (presumably human) on all or some of the mini-fleet of vehicles that had been left at the team’s facility.

Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times Picayune reports that the story is “on the mark,” citing multiple team sources.

Duncan doesn’t name the players who are believed to be responsible for the incident. But it should be easy to identify them, shouldn’t it? We think that, if that many players are talking about it, it should be a breeze.

And given that the Saints hung 51 points on the Packers in their next game after dropping No. 2 on the vehicles, the time-honored concept of sports superstitions requires them to do it as long as they keep winning.

[Redskins:Victory_or_Death]

and given that the saints hung 51 points on the packers in their next game after dropping no. 2 on the vehicles, the time-honored concept of sports superstitions requires them to do it as long as they keep winning.

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[Spitfire71]

...Holy ****. Lol.

[SkinsOrlando]

While it might be funny in a sense, it's beyond childish and disrespectful to the man "WHOSE PAYING THEM". Clarke Ford used to have several Cleveland Indians players driving there vehicles and had a huge display for awhile at Jacobs Field. I guess it's a good thing Todd Clarke didn't own the Indians.

[JoeSkins]

Aimed crapping, especially on someone else's property, is pretty sophomoric.

[jnhay]

While it might be funny in a sense, it's beyond childish and disrespectful to the man "WHOSE PAYING THEM". Clarke Ford used to have several Cleveland Indians players driving there vehicles and had a huge display for awhile at Jacobs Field. I guess it's a good thing Todd Clarke didn't own the Indians.

"Who's paying them"

They probably feel disrespected by the offer.

[JoeSkins]

"Who's paying them"

They probably feel disrespected by the offer.

So reject it and move on.

(I don't mean to put you into the place of defending their actions, though.)

[Larry Brown #43]

I call BS. Or maybe it was human S.

[BillyKilmer]

American or Japaneses