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Right (write) on, Evan! That's precisely why I haven't been to a single Saints game during the good years they've been having lately. I could have gotten all the freebies I wanted when I was working in the mayor's office ten years ago and the teams they fielded back then sucked. They were giving tickets out at City Hall and municipal employees were turning them down. Who wanted to give up the better part of a day off watching their home team get their butts kicked by the Vikings or the 49ers? Now that they're putting teams out on the field that are actually competitive with the rest of the league, you can't touch a game day ticket for love or money or both. Supply and demand, you know. I don't know what Saints tickets are going for now but, whatever they are, they're well out of this struggling writer's limited means. I'm always hearing complaints from people about how much they're paying for game day tickets but, the point is, they're STILL paying. It's the same people who bitch about the cost of a day at the JazzFest going up from $25 a day four or five years ago to over $60 today, but that hasn't stopped them from going. Or the ones who bitch about the ever-increasing cost of joining a Carnival krewe (sometimes into the thousands of dollars) just so they can have one day of fun when they parade during Mardi Gras, yet they still pay. When people want to do something bad enough they'll find a way to do it and they'll find the money that makes it possible. The only language the NFL is ever going to understand -- or the JazzFest people or the Carnival krewes -- is when enough people have decided they've had enough and they're going to boycott these events en masse. And, as you and I know, that day will probably never come. Why? They want to have their fun and they'll pay whatever price it takes to partake of their guilty pleasures. C'est le vie.