The Saints Are Coming

6 years after ...

The Loomis

Blake and Co. debut a new Black & Gold tee:

Stache-tacular

Access the damage from the 4th Annual Dash for the Stache here and here.

End result will be known in February in a certain domed facility found in the Midwest.

Joe Horn Cooking Show in 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 ...

Jeffrey's got the video. Joe's got the sauce. Chef's got the menu idea.

The Stache Is On the Building!

Dash details to follow ... but surely this face says it all.

Hail 'Stache 2011

HAIL ‘STACHE

Hail Fleur-de-Stache, full of faith, the Black & Gold is with Thee. Blessed art thou among fleur-de-lis and blessed is the soul of thy team, the New Orleans Saints.

Holy ‘Stache, Patron Saint of Who Dat Mustachios, pray for our Bless You Boys at the hour of their kickoff.

Let us be thankful for the flavors we’ve already savored: a resurrected Sacredome, a Deuce upside your head, a Meach-around, an old man’s pants on the ground, a Thanksgiving Day Jenkins jack, and a party with Lombardi.

Sustain our lungs and livers, oh ‘Stache, and train our Dome Foam strainers to remain steady in the face of every 2011 obstacle, be it dirty bird, bastard Bear, or the spoiled loin fruits of St. Archie.

As we place Thy sacred hair upon these fleur-de-lips, we honor the Black & Gold that have come before us: St. Buddy, pray for us. St. Dulymus, guide us. Dome Patrol, defend us. St. Gleason, inspire us.

Grant us faith, oh ‘Stache, as we commit these fleur-de-lip sweaters to the season of roofbanging before us. For thine is the kingdom of Who Dats, the power running game, and the gris gris.

Who Dat!

Dash for the 'Stache Supply List

Dash for the 'Stache Supply List

• Black & Gold Decorated bikes? Yes.
• Warm weather Saints gear? Yes.
• Your own personal mustache to apply once we hit the Dome? uh-huh.

If you like it, you shoulda put a stache on it

WHAT: Cafe 641's 4th annual bicycle pub crawl to kick off the 2011 New Orleans Saints season.

WHEN/WHERE: Saturday, August 20, 2011

• Buddy D. gravesite memorial: 12:00 p.m.

• Start: 1 p.m. at Mid-City Bulldog (depart 1:45 p.m. sharp)

• Stops: Mid-City Yacht Club, Finn McCool's, ?mystery bar?, Superdome.

• End: Saints vs. Texans pre-season game viewing at 7 p.m. (bar location to be determined)

The Right Occasion

Other appropriate handlebar occasions include, but are not limited to:

• dinner & drinks in Bistro 649
• romantic bicycle rides down Banks St.
• graveside memorial services
  

(via Michael Homan who, sadly, drinks Heineken Light)

Pick up the phone and call somebody!

From Jeffrey, we learn that Joe Horn did indeed use his 2006 smoked and pulled groin jerkey as the base for a post-football business venture:

Joe Horn's Bayou 87 Barbeque Sauce!

Say Joe. You looking for a sauce boss?

Yes, indeed.

Follicles Delight

Stache Dashers, 2010

It's that time of year again. Ready thy bikes. Ready thy livers. Ready thy upper lips.

Mustaches shall be consecrated on ...

Saturday, August 20!

Details to be released soon, but we start at Mid City Bulldog sometime after noon, pub crawl to the Dome (Mid City Yacht Club, Finn McCool's, etc.) to apply ceremonial staches and then end up somewhere else near Dome or Mid City (Handsome Willy's? Finn's? Bayou Beer Garden?) to watch Saints @ Texans pre-season game for 7 p.m.

Mining for Gold

No menus until we finish what the Bears started, but tonight's pre-season tussle with the 49ers does allow us to look a few years back to a Sunday afternoon when Saint Dulymus was invoked. Solid gold indeed.

A Meditation on 11

To be honest, I never thought last season's 11 wins seemed so impressive until I viewed, in succession ...

• the Thanksgiving Day Jenkins Jank
• HOFer-to be Jimmy Graham's catch at the Ravens
• Will Smith tea-bagging sack of Ben Roethlesberger
• MNF at Atlanta and Pierre Thomas

Pre-season is for Pretenders

It's worth saying twice: pre-season is for pretenders, on account of contenders already be flashing mid-season form.

Plaza dwellers might make an extra trip to the video-splayed toilet environs at tonight's Sacredome Extreme Makeover party, but up in the Terrace Towers, we'll be kicking back with Dirty Denim's Jim Beam flask, incognito style. No stache til da Bears. But that don't mean we ain't already in mid-season form ...

Enter the following in the "Bistro 649 Bout to Blow Up" evidence pool:

Exhibit A:

Ms. Shootz to Kill & Adult Industry Chef & family
(a summer pre-K project that reps. the almighty Stache)

Exhibit B
Droopy Dog

(see that Stomper in the background? 641 alumnus & all kinds of proud that The Entity and Shorty Chef were still standing after the 610 Stomper Ball Crawl back in June)

Exhibit C
Imaginative Hat Stache
(The Entity takes the Most Imaginative Stache category at Pete's Annual Mustache Party by wearing a 20s style flapper Hat Stache. Boom.)