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[saintsaddiction]

Small Deeds Done Are Better Than Great Plans Made!!! I'm So Grateful for This Small Band of @SaintsGiving of Their Time - Every Second Sunday!!! They Risk The Police - They Donate Food and They're All Smiles!!! These People Make a Difference - www.SaintsGiving.com - Be a Saint and Donate Directly!!! #SaintsGiving #ThisSmallBand #SecondSundays #SmallDeeds #SmallDeedsDoneAreBetterThanGreatPlansMade #JustShowUp #ThesePeopleMakeADifference #GiveYourTime #GivingSmiles #GiveFood #GiveClothes #Give #GiveCash #DonatingDirectly #MakingADifference #Sundays #SaintsGivers #UsTogether - www.fb.com/SaintsGiving A Giving App for Saints!!! <3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVYRVEFCIWvXJLy7rXMs68OzvZ0UaDMTpntCA0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=zucr5j2wklfl

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10-2 🖤💛🏈 NFC South Champs

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[nflfanpointii]

Saints Feast on Falcon on Thanksgiving Night

[hungrygirladventures]

Now that’s my kinda victory dance #saintsgiving #whodat https://www.instagram.com/p/B5cDaTtl8So/?igshid=jez62v7pui9y

[poetponyofmidgard]

Let’s beat dem dirty birds 🍗💯👍🏽🏈⚜️ #saintsgiving #geauxsaints #legday #turkeypics #turkey #fam #saintsgameday⚜️ #food #football #beatthefalcons @saints @saintsations @saintsmascots @tonialoria @flameprincessriley @eryn_loria https://www.instagram.com/p/B5bkPH4ppYg/?igshid=polcr42vz5b

[dynamicgreentk-blog]

No excuse for me to not have done this already. If your in Vegas please check this guy out just what he does alone on Saturdays brings much needed Natural light in Vegas. @Regrann from @saintsaddiction - "For it is In GIVING that We Recieve." St. Francis of Assisi is One of My Favorite @SaintsBrand We Know The ENERGY and Gratitude in @SaintsGiving and by This Time Next Week We Will Be Feeding The Homeless Again Nov. 11th - Here is The Link on FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/949040858591775/?ti=cl #FeedingTheHomeless #SecondSaturdays #Help #BeTheChange #Saints #SaintsAddiction #Saint #SaintsBrand #SaintsGiving #StFrancis #KeepGiving #ForItIsInGivingThatWeReceive #GIVE #GIVING #Halo #WeAreSaintsWeAreHereToHelp #Saints #SaintsGive - www.fb.com/SaintsGiving See You Saints Saturday!!! - #regrann

[craigspur56]

it's a Thanksgiving GAMEDAY 🦃...

🏆🏈🖤💛⚜💛🖤🏈🏆

#WHODAT!!!

#ATLvsNO

#GeauxSaints

#BeatDemDirtyBirds

#DomeSweetDome

#SaintsGiving ⚜🦃

#SaintsGameday

#Saints 🖤⚜💛

[saylessydni]

Football and Pool! Happy Saintsgiving https://www.instagram.com/p/B5bvYMFhNH7/?igshid=7cxeln5bb18m

[saintsaddiction]

Small Deeds Done Are Better Than Great Plans Made!!! I'm So Grateful for This Small Band of @SaintsGiving of Their Time - Every Second Sunday!!! They Risk The Police - They Donate Food and They're All Smiles!!! These People Make a Difference - www.SaintsGiving.com - Be a Saint and Donate Directly!!! #SaintsGiving #ThisSmallBand #SecondSundays #SmallDeeds #SmallDeedsDoneAreBetterThanGreatPlansMade #JustShowUp #ThesePeopleMakeADifference #GiveYourTime #GivingSmiles #GiveFood #GiveClothes #Give #GiveCash #DonatingDirectly #MakingADifference #Sundays #SaintsGivers #UsTogether - www.fb.com/SaintsGiving A Giving App for Saints!!! <3 https://www.instagram.com/p/BwVYBkAlxXsL2JI4fiiOMD5HagTnP3n5vC3FCE0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=2w05e1m6nd7b

[nflfanpointii]

Saintsgiving is a blessing to thankful New Orleans fans

On Thanksgiving (Nov. 22), when the New Orleans Saints take on the Atlanta Falcons in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, folks chowing down at the always-food-centric tailgate have a plan.

“We will be having our first ever parking lot Thanksgiving feast on Poydras Street, complete with all the fixins’,” Jeff Maumus said in a discussion on the Where NOLA Eats Facebook group. “We are planning on a fried turkey, oyster dressing, creamed cauliflower, pecan pie and more.”

Kickoff is at 7:20 p.m., so most folks say they can do both: Enjoy the traditional family meal and watch the Saints pluck the dirty birds.

“If you’re having dinner at 7 p.m., something’s wrong,” Melvin Brown said. “You’re encroaching on valuable leftover time.”

Avid fan Jim Rapier agreed: “Eating early (and then) going to the game. going for two birds down in one day.”

Football and Thanksgiving go hand-in-hand, but this is a Saints home game and it isn’t just any home game, it’s against the black and gold’s archenemy. And the 9-1 Saints are winning and winning big.

The Falcons-Saints’ intense rivalry dates to the 1960s and has long been a part of the city’s sports lore. In 2006, it became part of the city’s Katrina recovery story.

Many New Orleanians can tell you where they were on Sept. 25, 2006, the so-called Domecoming, when “the punt block” — as fans refer to it — by Steve Gleason allowed Curtis Deloatch to go in for a touchdown that led to a victory in the first game played in the newly reopened Superdome.

Gleason’s play is commemorated with a statue called “Rebirth” on Superdome grounds.

Moments like that make the meet-up with the Falcons serious business for fans like Cheryl Jarrell, who took a hard stand on this confluence of the holiday and the game back in spring.

“There will be no Thanksgiving dinner at my house,” Jarrell said. “There’s a Saints game, and I’m going! Been warning the family since the schedule came out.”

Rhonda Terrell Walters, who is going to the game as well, is simply moving the holiday meal: “We will celebrate on Saturday.”

Kim Este Campbell is adjusting her plans, too.

“We usually have Friendsgiving on Thanksgiving night,” Campbell said. “This year, we’ll be having it the night before.”

Some, rather than work around it, are embracing the collision of two much-anticipated events.

“I’ve changed the whole menu to sports food,’’ Charlene Carter told the Facebook Group.

Michele Williams is planning a mash-up: “We will have both Thanksgiving and tailgating food. We will put tents up outside with table and chairs and TV and boil seafood and celebrate my son’s birthday. It will be wonderful.”

The game, with its evening kick-off, will bleed into another holiday tradition that is equally important to many: holiday sale shopping.

“Black Friday shopping will not happen,” Desiree Egan said. “I want to see my boys roast that bird.”

New Orleans Saints fans lived through lean times in the Saints’ early years, games that included heavy losses and bag heads.

As a commenter on NOLA.com said: “Remember the bad old days, when the Saints were about as welcome on Thanksgiving day as that uncle who got drunk and started a fight? Times have changed.”

Indeed they have.

After Sunday’s 48-7 defeat of the Philadelphia Eagles, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune columnist Jeff Duncan wrote: “Oh, the Saints are definitely thinking Super Bowl… after their ninth consecutive win and third 45-point offensive output, they have to be thinking it….In fact, everyone in New Orleans should be.

The team’s 51-14 win against Cincinnati on Nov. 11 prompted hundreds of fans to show up at the Louis Armstrong International Airport to welcome the team home. The number at the airport increases with each big win.

Duncan’s colleague sports writer Josh Katzenstein recently wondered if NFL passing king Drew Brees “is in the midst of the greatest season by a quarterback in NFL history.”

The excitement building from win after win, Brees’ record-setting season and the decades-old affection fans have for the team makes Thursday’s match-up about more than sports.

“We will be bringing full hearts and bellies to the dome,” Beulah Fornea said.

Because, as Rachel Hargrove Scheffer put it: “We are always thankful for a Saints game.”

[gloriamoncada]

‘Twas a nice #saintsgiving #thanksgiving! Still thinking of the yummy seafood/meat gumbo, smoked brisket by bubbalicious bbq, Ana’ Paula dean crockpot mac n cheese...so much more! ¡Gracias por todo! @liesbethvigil @anaramirez2217 https://www.instagram.com/p/B5d22zMF5VJ2fchnlkm6ZrQkqCEVORQLkP_aUY0/?igshid=1rxuvof93npuu

[poetponyofmidgard]

10 in a row! Congrats & Happy Thanksgiving y’all. @emeril @saints @drewbrees #thanksgiving #saintsgameday #saintsgiving https://www.instagram.com/p/BqgpJLbAzqH/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6l7n56kqam28

[tamicurtis]

Who Dat?! We Dat!!! Happy Saintsgiving Folks! (Large giclee prints 24x34 /16x20 matted prints / 11x14 matter prints/ postcards and magnets available of “50 Years of Saints) #GeauxSaints #WhoDat #Saintsgiving #neworleanssaints #TamiCurtisGallery https://www.instagram.com/p/Bqgi9BlA-_9/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=m94svgazw3sg

[bloodsweatdesign]

HAPPY SAINTSGIVING, Y’ALL! ⚜️🦃⚜️🦃⚜️ . . . #Saints #WhoDat #GobbleGobble #ATLvsNO #Saintsgiving #FryDemBirds (at Kenner, Louisiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqgRcnbllF6/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=7vkcu7xylrc3

[luceelee]

Happy #Saintsgiving Ya’ll! #whodat #NoOneLikesAtlanta ⚜️⚜️⚜️ (at Mercedes-Benz Superdome) https://www.instagram.com/p/BqgRDI6FbhHpnVBJ4rYPpHJwz12XkMR1CmQxhk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1gygshg6vno84