At least one Saint is easy to root against.

This is a tough one, because I don’t hate the New Orleans Saints, at least yet. Now, I want the Vikings to win – if this game were played one hundred times I’d want to Vikings to beat the Saints 49-0 one hundred times – but of all the franchises in the NFC, this is one whose history is even more pathetic and sad-sack than the Vikings.

Now, Jeremy Shockey is a wet pantleg of a human being, and the whole “Who Dat” thing gets old, but if they (unfortunately) beat the Vikings, and I hope they don’t, I would want the Saints to win the big ba-dang. It’d be great for their franchise and the city and all that argle-bargle. And I do think they’ll make it to their first Super Bowl.

Just not this year.

Baby steps, guys.

-- J. RYAN STRADAL