Fans are like innocent lambs. It doesn't matter that in real life they might conduct a sober, serious life, have a responsible position in a legitimate enterprise or even run a million-dollar company. When it comes to our favorite teams, we fans put the lampshades on our head, paint our bodies in fluorescent hues and howl at the moon until we are hoarse. And that is the good thing about the emotion of sports.

On Saturday, talk radio giant Rush Limbaugh apologized for calling Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke a “prostitute” and a “slut.” In testimony before Congress, she demanded free birth control prescriptions, noting that without insurance coverage it could cost a woman $3,000 over three years of law school. Fluke claimed that she was “embarrassed” at the pharmacy counter when she discovered for “the first time” that such contraceptives were not included in the Georgetown health insurance plan.

Saints owner Tom Benson is 110 per cent behind GM Mickey Loomis and Coach Sean Payton and wants them focused on the upcoming season said the AP.

"The bond between Sean and Mickey and Mr.Benson couldn't be any stronger," said a Saints official.

The loyalty to Loomis is a bit surprising because the NFL report accuses Loomis of disregarding Benson's directive to put an end to the bounty program.

Sometimes there is civility and decency in this current acrimonious political environment—even on blogs and twitter and even between activists who happen to see the world from different ends of the poles. 

One of those rare moments just happens to have occurred arising out of a communication between a local Louisiana blogger and a “putz”  and with a nationally recognized public figure  who sadly  wrote his last tweet to our putz only an hour or so before he collapsed —Andrew Breitbart.

Last week, when I discovered that Breitbart had died, I thought to myself, this does not surprise me.  Although I did not know he was as young as he was (43) when he passed, I recall seeing him in the middle of a heated discussion at a Republican convention in New Orleans two years ago.

Has the New Orleans Saints “bountygate” revealed a crack in the NFL?

A schism in the reality in which the game is being played?