Did Colts coach Caldwell take a backhanded swipe at New Orleans?
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Not long after the clock expired on the New Orleans Saints’ Super Bowl victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday night, Colts head coach Jim Caldwell made himself available for the always-somber post-game interview.
As these interviews go, they’re usually a bunch of non-questions posed by a reporter trying to look sympathetic, which are met with non-answers from a grim-looking coach. Nothing discussed in these interviews are usually worth remembering.
Caldwell’s responses generally fell along these lines, except when he offered the obligatory give-the-winner credit line. Describing the Saints, he said “they did a heckuva job.”
The words “heckuva job” a few years ago became part of a haunting phrase in New Orleans. As anyone with a even a rudimentary memory of Hurricane Katrina recalls, then-President George Bush offered beleaguered FEMA director Michael Brown a “You’re going a heckuva job, Brownie,” even though he arguably wasn’t.
Much will be made in the coming days about the Saints victory and its weight in New Orleans. The media will surely gush platitudes about how a Super Bowl victory become a defining moment for the rebuilding of a city decimated by a hurricane more than four years ago.
In this context, was Caldwell making a dig at New Orleans?
It may be a stretch. Perhaps we’re reading way too far into this. Was it a mistake? Very well could have been. Was it a poor choice of words? Probably. Was it a conscious choice of words? Who knows?
As for Brown, he told the media who he wanted to win the Super Bowl a couple days ago. He wasn’t rooting for the Saints.
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Incredibly stupid post. Stay away form sports, you pasty-faced ninny.
Steve,
Please don’t waste anyones time with a nonsensical article like the above. We have enough to be concerned about in the real world and this article is on the far side of fantasy Island. hard to believe I’m actually responding to it, hopefully I’m the last. Take a quick nap and remove this article when you wake up.
questioneveryone2,
Were you going to make a point, or were you just going to criticize me out of hand? Can you explain why it’s nonsensical?
Thanks,
Steve
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