Drive through any neighborhood on game day and you'll spot a Texans flag or two flying next to the fleur-de-lis. Should newcomers be expected to adopt the Saints or is that just old-fashioned hometown tribalism?
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Add your commentBorn and raised on Burnside Avenue and I will say this exactly once: if you move to Ascension Parish, you bleed black and gold. Period. End of discussion. We don't negotiate on this.
My grandfather used to say Gonzales has room for everybody but not room for everybody's nonsense. What he meant was come here, be a neighbor, contribute to the community, go to the Jambalaya Festival, eat right, treat people decent. He didn't say a word about football flags and I think that was intentional.
nope. hard disagree with the whole "let them keep their teams" energy on this thread. when my family moved from Metairie to Baton Rouge in 1998 nobody told us we could keep rooting for whoever we wanted — the whole neighborhood converted us through pure peer pressure and good cooking and we are better people for it. assimilation via jambalaya is a valid cultural process and i stand by it
Wait — the Texans and Saints are NOT in the same division. Saints are NFC South, Texans are AFC South. They don't even play each other every season, only in interconference rotations. Whoever said otherwise needs to sit down and let the adults talk football.
The Texans have been a franchise since 2002. The Saints have been breaking Louisiana hearts since 1967. There is literally no comparison in terms of history and cultural roots. Anyone flying a Texans flag in Gonzales is welcome here as a neighbor, but let's not pretend it's some kind of equivalent rivalry. This isn't even a debate.
I came here post-Katrina, been here almost 20 years now. I was a Saints fan before I left New Orleans and I'm a Saints fan now. But I work with guys who evacuated from Beaumont after Harvey and they're good people, hard workers, they coach little league with my son. If they wanna keep their Texans gear I really don't care. Life's too short. The crawfish boils at the end of the street are Saints-neutral anyway once the beer comes out.
My aunt kept her Cowboys flag up for eleven years after moving here from Dallas and nobody said a word to her. Y'all act like sporting allegiance is some kind of citizenship requirement lol
genuine question for the born-and-raised crowd: did y'all cheer for the Oilers when they were still in Houston before the Titans move? because if old-school Louisiana folks had Oilers sympathy back then, maybe cut the transplants a little slack on the Texans thing. just asking.
okay so i moved here from League City after Harvey wiped out our house and honestly? i still watch the Texans. sorry not sorry. my kids grew up going to Texans games, my dad took me to my first Texans game, that doesnt just evaporate because FEMA moved us to Louisiana. i root for the Saints to beat everybody except Houston. is that so terrible
Secretly Texans territory?? I drove past Lamar Dixon last Sunday and counted exactly one Texans banner versus approximately ten thousand fleur-de-lis. ONE. The premise of this entire topic is hysteria.
Actually the Texans and Saints are in the same division so they play each other twice a year, which means every transplant who cheers Houston is basically cheering against us on a rivalry game. THAT is why it matters. It's not tribalism, it's math.
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