Saints Season Side Bet

Posted by Benson

Before the regular NFL season started this year, Matt and I were having a little discussion about how well the New Orleans Saints would play this season.  Matt is fond of football (and a skeptical curmudgeon), so not only did he predict that the Saints would not play amazing this year, he also felt that his opinion carried some authority.

I am an ardent Saints fan only pseudo-knowledgeable about the actual game, and so I took umbrage at Matt's remarks and pressed him for his opinion about how many games he thought the Saints would win this season.  Matt predicted that they would win 10, which I took to be sacrilegious, for how could they go to the playoffs with a 10-6 record?!?

I said ardent, not "insane"

Now, this conversation happened while were all walking to dinner, and as is sometimes our want when not working, the DGA team had a few drinks over dinner, during which I brought up Matt's sacrilegious Saints prediction and immediately declared that the Saints would win 12 games this season!  This I declared not remembering how many games there actually are in the regular season, but it seemed like a good number: more than Matt's prediction, but still conservative enough to not sound crazy?

Now the game was afoot!  As the discussion roiled around the table I, happening to have some cash on me, put whatever money was in my wallet where my mouth was ($50).  Lubricated by libations, everyone threw in, making their own predictions.

We do have God on our side...

Bill: 9-7 (even worse!)
Jamie/Matt: 10-6
Doug: 11-5
Benson: 12-4

Now that the regular season is drawing to a close, things have become very interesting!  So interesting, in fact, that I felt you should all be tuned in.

Right now, Bill is out, as the Saints just trounced the Panthers 31-13 last night, but once we had seen the Saints play three games we all figured he was done anyway.  The Saints have three more games to go and are sitting on a 10-3 record, so anything can happen aside from Bill winning.  

If the Saints win out, we're all done as none of us were passionate enough to bet on a 13-3 record.  As of now the Saints have the Rams, the Panthers (again), and the Buccaneers left to play.  We just clobbered the Panthers, we already clobbered the Bucs, and the Rams..well, we should be able to beat the Rams.  But anything can happen, of course, and if we clinch a playoff spot we may take it easy the last couple of games... 

So stay tuned!

Edit: AND the Seahawks lost last night, which is fantastic!  The Superbowl is looking that much closer!