"Special" Teams
This will be the first year in recent Saints memory without one of the three big "heart and soul" guys on special teams: Beerman, FreddieMac (he cleans up well!), and Steve Gleason.
In case you forgot the kind of thing that Gleason brings to the team, here's a 7 second video that can remind you. Get well soon, Steve.
No Gleason? Damn, damn, damn...
Posted by: liprap | 28 July 2007 at 09:24 AM
I noticed Gleason was on IR. What's the story?
Posted by: ClarkT | 28 July 2007 at 09:58 AM
Ashley, you're such a pro. I love that the video backdrop has your tag on it, nice touch.
Posted by: Carmen | 28 July 2007 at 10:48 AM
Here you go, Clark: http://www.nola.com/saints/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-3/1185433717161050.xml&coll=1
Pure co-inky-dink, Carmen.
Posted by: ashley | 28 July 2007 at 10:48 AM
Take THAT, Jake D. and Company.
Posted by: Mr. Clio | 28 July 2007 at 11:14 AM
Never mind the Steve Gleason hair memorial, Ashley. Chef's heading to the gym immediately to get in some speed bag work.His left jab has gone all soft this off-season and Chef ain't takin' any lip in Cafe 641 this season.
Posted by: Chef Who Dat | 28 July 2007 at 11:37 AM
Gleason is my favorite Saints player. No one loves the game and is more excited to be on the field and respects the people of New Orleans more than Steve.
You can find Steve in New Orleans in the offseason cruising around town on his bicycle on the weekends or advocating for the use of biodiesel (his car runs on biodiesel) and if you didn't know he was a Saints player, you'd just think he was a fun-loving goofy white guy with a passion for life and the earth. Because that's what he is at heart, a good man who gives back not because he's made it as a pro football player, but because he'd be giving back even if he was the Saints ballboy. That's just the kind of guy he is.
Posted by: Southern Leftist | 28 July 2007 at 12:09 PM