New Orleans Saints linebacker Jonathan Vilma said on Thursday the NFL's new rules on overtime are a slight to his team, which advanced to the championship game earlier this year under the old rule. The Saints beat the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in sudden-death overtime of the NFC Championship game after winning the coin toss and nailing a 40-yard field goal on their first drive. "If you read between the lines, we feel like they're saying well, if Minnesota would have had a possession who knows what would have happened," said Vilma, who lives in Miami and was playing in a friendly tennis match with world number two Caroline Wozniacki on Thursday at the Sony Ericsson Open. "We don't appreciate that. I don't appreciate it at all." Vilma, a six-year NFL veteran who has played the last two seasons in New Orleans, said the Saints beat the Vikings fairly and that the NFL's rule changes were designed to avoid the situation from occurring again. "Whoever scores wins," he said. "It's up to Minnesota to stop us. They didn't stop us on fourth downs and that's their problem. I just feel like they're slighting us, but it is what it is." Source: Reuters.com
SF72 :dance0: Maybe if I was a Saints fan I'd see this different, but the way I see it is this... You won the freaking SUPERBOWL... you are the WORLD CHAMPIONS... scream it from the top of the world WE WON YOU c**t SNITCHES, WE WINNING OVER HERE MUTHAFREAKERS!!! ...but don't spend the whole off season (or forever) griping and snitching about this petty crap. You won, be above it.
dear jonathon - please STFU. and how is this a bad idea ? heck sudeen death in football. let that type of bush league rule stay in hockey.
i see ya SoDev :kewl12: this is the stance i've had since our little talk :icon_cheesygrin: i think the 2 week party in new orleans was the saints way of saying that
