Do we also have to remind you that our season spawned this post? When we say all the records, we mean ALL THE RECORDS. Go vote: http://on.fb.me/KU5Mfo
This is a list of ALL THE RECORDS set by the Saints during the 2011-2012 regular season.
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Pro Football Weekly has a silly Facebook poll/competition to see who has the best offense. Clearly it’s the Saints. With only 32 votes so far, we can easily just run up the score some. Ya know, like the Saints did this year.
So GO VOTE (and reblog)
An oddly quiet week coming out of the Saints’ camp. After scooping up more headlines than Tim Tebow - punt team specialist - we’ve had a series of horribly boring headlines that I thought I’d share with you over my lunch break. Revel in the mundanity of this list. It’s likely short lived.
- Saints lead NFC South in Popularity - Yay. For the record, the rest of the NFC South is in the 24-28 range.
- New Orleans Saints RB Chris Ivory has his contract modified - thrilling stuff.
- Sean Payton Employs Movie Magic to Coach Saints 2012 - Our Conspiracy Theory was better.
- Randall Gay eliminates any risk - Further proof that concussions will be the downfall of Football in America.
-OTAs are happening: 
That’s about it ladies and gentlemen. The whole list (as far as I can see). The good news is we’re less than a football season away from football season. Let the countdown begin at 68 days until The Hall of Fame Game - aka the day we remember why the preseason is so awesome and yet sucks so bad.
Congrats to Deuce McAllister for being inducted into the Saints HOF along with Steve Gleason & Tom Benson.
Seconded. What an outstanding HOF class this year. Congratulations to Duece, we love you even though you went to Ole Miss (kidding…sorta).
“@feelingthebrees: hey @JonVilma51 check out this article, makes some good points about #bountyscandal blackandgoldreview.com/post/234793211…”great read
— Jonathan Vilma (@JonVilma51) May 21, 2012
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I don’t want to say that Mike Freeman listened to me after I scolded him (and others) in my piece earlier, but I will point out that 6 hours after my essay came out, he’s singing a remarkably different tune. So I feel dirty for typing this, but…Good job Mike Freeman…?
By Ryan Chauvin
No sports story in the history of my fandom of the New Orleans Saints (which, for the record, does go farther back than 2006, but whatever) has made me feel more like an unstable mental patient than this undying saga about whether or not the Saints actually employed bounties. There are days I’m amused (Vilma sued the Commissioner!) depressed (Scott Fujita, one of the nicest men on the planet, who even after he left New Orleans, spent a large chunk of his Super Bowl check on NOLA charities), enraged (Vilma sued the commissioner!), but most of all I’m confused. The drama surrounding the Saints has been indicative of the fall of the American media.
It seems that this story has brought out every sanctimonious tendency in American sports journalism. Every few weeks, when the Commissioner carefully drops another breadcrumb, reporters from everywhere have another excuse to rehash why they are so disappointed. Sure, Mike Freeman and Pete Prisco at CBS Sports have certainly led the way in this self-righteous crusade, but they aren’t alone. But despite all the handwringing about how wrong the Saints are in all of this, there has been a significant lack of true investigative journalism and unbiased reporting. Instead we’re getting a pure recitation of NFL press releases.
Freeman has taken to the word arrogant to describe the Saints recently, and while that might have had a part in Sean Payton’s demise, it’s time to acknowledge that arrogance has been the driving force behind every stakeholder in this little shindig.
Of Authority
Let’s begin by focusing on the very center of this storm: Roger Goodell. 
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why this became so very, very interesting.
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C’mon. Isn’t this the best offseason ever? We just sued the commissioner. I’m highly entertained and you should be too.
Here’s a little something to get us through the long dreary scary Saints off-season.
Follow the game tomorrow (May 18th!) on our brand-spankin’ new twitter handle!
@Saintsbingo!, where we’ll help you keep track of when to drink.
(See you tomorrow!)
Okay, Who Dats and Dots, today is the final chance that we receive any sort of reprieve for this bounty “scandal.” The four players (Vilma, Smith, Fujita, and Hargrove) will stand in front of the Commissioner and pretend to get a fair shake at this.
I think the most interesting development is the fact that the players union is saying that this all happened before the last CBA, so Goodell actually has no authority here (instead it would be an arbitrator’s call). Odds are Goodell stomps viciously on the appeals, Ndamukong Suh style (only good for a one game suspension) and we’re left pretending that Vilma was going to be an integral part of this years’ defense.
Frankly, I’d just like some sort of concession in this whole mess. Concession that the league handled this poorly, that the “evidence” was exaggerated and manipulated, that Goodell has an embarrassing amount of authority on everything NFL and what he’s doing is unconstitutional (we can dream, right? Right?)
All that to say, we’ll probably get shit on. Again. Anyone else think we might see a more positive result?
This wanted poster of Gregg Williams was spotted at Jazzfest in New Orleans.
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