Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints had a tough Thursday night, as the offense struggled for one of the first times this season en route to a 13-10 loss to the Dallas Cowboys. Brees and the Saints are certainly going to be fine in the NFC — they’re still 10-2 — but Brees had additional trouble to deal with after the game.
Facing the media after a loss is never easy, especially when one member talks like he was dropped in out of an early 20th century time warp. On Thursday night, Brees was fielding questions from reporters when shouts of “Champ! Champ!” caught his attention.
The question that followed is, well, tough to answer in the 21st Century.
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— Jordan Heck (@JordanHeckFF) November 30, 2018
If you missed it, here’s what the reporter said:
“Champ, Champ, on the sunny side, despite tonight not being the berries, you have to believe that your Crescent City Buckmen are all set to make a great run at another ice covered roscoe just like the bulldog boys from Canton town.”
The old timey reporter is a radio host who goes by the name of Scoops Callahan. In other words, it’s a bit. Thankfully, Brees handled the whole thing pretty well.
“I have no idea what that means,” Brees said. “Callahan” then repeated some form of the “question,” which was basically an extremely retro way of asking how the Saints will still compete for the Super Bowl despite the loss. And Brees did answer.
“We’re just focusing on one game at a time,” Brees said. “This one wasn’t a great day for us, so we have a lot of work to do to get back after this weekend.”
See? It turns out all those canned answers are actually good for something, especially when you have no idea what question the reporter is asking.
