Day #24 24 Down and 11 To Go

Day #24 Tuesday January 26,2010
Got a full nights sleep last night. It sure helps when I can sleep all night. That many hours without pain are some really nice hours. I wish I could be awake to enjoy it! lol. My treatment today went fine. All new technicians for some reason but, everything went fine. I listened to ESPN and of course they pissed me off. They are talking more about poor Brett Favre than they are talking about our TOUGH SAINTS team.
okay , I will try and write a litle about my Saints. All of you who know me , know that I am a huge Saints fan. Doctors told me that when they cut me open, I bled black and gold! I remember going to church on Sunday mornings. Getting back home and Daddy had made biscuits from scratch. Then we would get dressed for the game. We usually had 4 tickets or someone was offering us to go with them. Sometimes it might be Todd and I or Daddy and Todd or Todd and I might go with someone else. I remember Daddy and Parin Belanger discussing talking the Bayou Blue short cut or going through Houma. If you caught the bridge, it wasn't a short cut. These days, it's not even an option. You take the Houma route. We might have a sandwich for the trip or they would stop and get a littel snack along the way. The closer you get to New Orleans, the more excited you would get. The drive then was about 90 minutes. In those days the games were at Tulane Stadium. An outdoor stadium that held over 80,000. It was and old stadium but- so funny that I remember this- it was just the way football should be played. Before you got to the stadium you had to do this important task- park your car. This was one of the coolest parts of the old days. The parking lot was not to be found so, you had to park on side streets around the garden district. Homeowners were in the parking business too. You would pay to park in the driveway or in their yard. It costs about $5 back then. The walk to the stadium was so cool. You just got so pumped up. There were people selling things along the walk to the stadium. You could by everything from cotton candy to peanuts to popcorn balls. Tulane stadium was so big and being made of steel and wood, it was the perfect amplifier when fans started to pound their feet on the steel floor. Wow, what a feelin that was. I remember the first time I came to my seat and looked out at the teams warmin up on the field. There was the almost red-ish looking DUKE footbal used by the NFL. There was the Saints endzone and there were the Philly Eagles with their green shoes. It was almost too much , too soon for a down the bayou boy like me . One time, we even had camel races after the game.. More on my Saints memories later.
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