SAINTS SEEK TO END LAWSUIT AGAINST NFL
by Jeff Thomas
As the season approached, many Saints fans kept an eye on training camp and the lawsuit filed by fans against the NFL and Commissioner Roger Godell. But early this morning the team killed the dreams of many disgruntled Saints fans. Nope Godell won’t be coming to a packed courtroom in Civil District Court. Nope Superbowl LIII won’t be replayed. And Tom Brady and the New England Patriots get to keep the Lombardi trophy.
The Saints filed paperwork siding with the NFL and insisting that Louisiana law should be the same as everywhere else – fans cannot sue over missed calls.
Real Saints fans should rejoice. Football battles should be won or lost on the gridiron not the courtroom. We can’t go from instant replay to a judge deciding if a game was actually won or lost. This would be a terrible precedent. Would we have to have judicial review before standings could be updated? Drew Brees should not have to take off his uniform and explain to a judge and jury how he lofted a perfect pass that would have been caught and extended the game. That ain’t football!
Athletes not lawyers win or lose football games. The Saints organization manned up, no bossed up and said we will kick the Rams asses on the football field this year. We don’t need no stinking lawyers. Lace em up and play ball.
New Orleans football fans can now focus on this year’s team. WBOK am 1230 sports director, Ro Brown said, “The Saints brass decided the lawsuit would be a distraction and serve no real purpose.” With the lawsuit out of the way, the fan base can cheer for this year’s team and forget about last year. It’s over and never going to change.
Buckle your chinstraps Saints fans, cause the new season, with a real chance for a SuperBowl win is about to begin.
Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
Selected Articles by Jeff Thomas
Black Neighborhoods Pay the Highest Insurance Rates in Louisiana. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
They Didn’t Yell the N-Word. They Went to Law School, Bided Their Time, and Rewrote the Constitution Instead.
Vappie vs. Morrell: Why Does Justice Look Different in New Orleans?
The State Has the Money. New Orleans East Just Needs Them to Use It.
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu
Publisher — Black Source Media
Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
Selected Articles by Jeff Thomas
Black Neighborhoods Pay the Highest Insurance Rates in Louisiana. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
They Didn’t Yell the N-Word. They Went to Law School, Bided Their Time, and Rewrote the Constitution Instead.
Vappie vs. Morrell: Why Does Justice Look Different in New Orleans?
The State Has the Money. New Orleans East Just Needs Them to Use It.
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu