I think we're close to this year's stupid motivational Saints T-shirt

Do you think, "Kill For Your Biscuit"? Or something more cryptic like "GWWKAMFAB" or maybe just "Smell Biscuits."   You figure it out.  Also read Wang if you care to know what the hell any of that is about.

I agree with him about how oppressively boring these fans can be.

The message boards immediately reacquainted me with two things I already knew but hadn't really thought much about in a while. 1. The only acceptable reaction to a Saints draft pick is rapturous applause, and 2. Whatever remains in 21st Century America that stubbornly continues to try to pass itself off as "society" has completely lost any semblance of the concept of honest disagreement. "Viewpoints" are a relic, these days there is only the person who is "right" and the person who is an idiot. Good times. Or something.

And on Draft Day, the "idiot" is always the guy who doesn't understand that the Saints ABSOLUTELY NAILED IT and it's all part of Payton and Loomis's diabolical Master Plan. It's the same thing every year… "Oh, I suppose you think you know better than Loomis and Payton, huh? Well then why aren't YOU the GM of an NFL team?!?" Oh, for crying out loud, get the fuck out of here with that weak shit.

If we're supposed to be so unconditionally supportive of everything Loomis and Payton do, then why have YOU spent the better part of the last decade screaming "When are they gonna bench/cut Shanle???" and/or "Run the ball, Payton!!!" and on and on like that? Hell, we all just finished spending the better part of the last three months lamenting "Why can't the Saints ever seem to find a defensive player in the first round who isn't Just A Guy?" And now the Saints pick yet another defensive guy in the first round and anybody who dares to express the opinion that he might be yet another JAG is an idiot who just doesn't get it? Sigh.

And that's why I stay away from the message boards.  Better to stick with Twitter where everyone's either a critic or a comedian and no one can ramble on long enough to really get dump that much stupid on you even if they're Fletcher Mackel.

On the other hand, I disagree with Wang about the "spoiler" effect. I don't mind finding out what's happening from one source before it's confirmed by another two or three guys all before it gets dramatized by the clown puppets on ESPN.   I don't watch that show for the suspense. I watch it to see what the idiots are saying. None of that is ruined by having the topics ahead of time. None of this stuff is real, anyway. No need to pretend it is in order to enjoy it.