This is looking like a football blog, but the Saints did it again, and in this city success is something we need and enjoy.  

The game in Tampa Bay was delayed for an hour when immediately after the opening drive, a thunderstorm rolled over Raymond James Stadium. At the stadium, attendees were urged to "seek coverage on the concourses and ramps." I wonder what they saw down there? The rest of us watched next week's foe Arizona Cardinals confront the Detroit Lions (yawn). 

After the delay the Saints dominated Tampa Bay but refused to put them away. Frequent and awful Bucs' penalties prompted the announcer to ask "What is the difference between a jihadist with a suicide belt and a Tampa Bay Buccaneer? Answer on the local news at 11." 

Well you know the outcome. Bucs up by 1 miss a field goal and turn the ball over to Brees with one minute to go. Twenty yards up the middle to Graham, eighteen yard screen to Sproles, 23 yards to Colston, spike the ball with 5 seconds left, and the ball on the eleven. Hartley's 28 yarder wins the game as time expires. New Orleans exhales. Fifty three citizens admitted to local emergency rooms. No not lightening, cardiac arrest!