Ole Miss Changes Campus Speed Limit In Honor Of Eli Manning
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Ole Miss has a street called Manning Way on their campus that is dedicated to Archie Manning. The speed limit was 18 mph, Archie’s number at Ole Miss.
But due to the success that New York Giants quarterback and former alumni Eli Manning is having they have changed the speed limit to reflect his number. Ole Miss changed the speed limit on Manning way from 18 to 10.
New Orleans Saints Head Coach Sues Former Player
Duped By Houser The NFL Madoff
Back on March 10 we posted the story of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant and current Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey filling a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court against their former teammate, Kevin Houser. They alleged Houser aka the NFL version of Bernard Madoff that he had duped them into investing more than a million dollars in a film tax credit scam.
Shockey and Smith have been joined in the suit against Houser by head coach Sean Payton and his wife. The suit by Payton and his wife against the former long snapper is nearly identical to one filed 10 days by his players. The only significant differences in wording are over details of the Paytons’ specific purchases of film tax credits through Houser,credit that never existed.
Payton and his wife, Elizabeth, say Houser, who was a licensed securities broker, convinced them they were buying state tax credits for Louisiana Film Studios, but later it turned out LFS had never applied for the credits. The complaint says Sean Payton paid Houser $144,000, expecting to get $180,000 in state tax credits.
In all, nearly two dozen former or current Saints players and coaches, including quarterback Drew Brees and Saints legend Archie Manning, invested $1.7 million to buy what they thought were tax credits for the film studio project in Elmwood. Like Grant and Shockey’s lawsuit before, the Paytons lawsuit is labeled a class action on behalf of the rest of the investors.
Houser aka NFL Madoff played for the team from 2000 to 2008, exclusively snapping the ball on punts and placekicks.
New Orleans Saints Jeremy Shockey Sues Former Saints Teammate
Duped By Houser The NFL Madoff
Recently released New Orleans Saints defensive end Charles Grant and current Saints tight end Jeremy Shockey have filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court against their former teammate, Kevin Houser, alleging Houser duped them and other current and former Saints players and coaches into investing more than a million dollars in a film tax credit scam.
Houser is the former special teams long-snapper who was the longest tenured Saints player when he was cut by the team before the 2009 season as news of the tax credit fiasco emerged. Grant and Shockey say Houser, who was a licensed securities broker, convinced them they were buying state tax credits for Louisiana Film Studios, but later it turned out LFS had never applied for the state tax credits.
In all, nearly two dozen former or current Saints players and coaches, including quarterback Drew Brees, Coach Sean Payton and Saints legend Archie Manning, invested $1.7 million to buy what they thought were tax credits for the film studio project in Elmwood. Grant and Shockey’s lawsuit is labeled a class action on behalf of the rest of the investors.
Grant and Shockey allege that Houser actually kept a portion of their money as a commission or finder’s fee. Also, they say that Houser kept secret the fact that the film studio owed hundreds of thousands of dollars to 47 Construction LLC, a company co-owned by Houser and his wife.
Houser’s attorney, Jimmy Castex, said his client and was a victim of the scam by the film studio’s former CEO, Wayne Read. A federal bankruptcy judge ordered the film studio’s assets liquidated last month.
Houser played for the team from 2000 to 2008, exclusively snapping the ball on punts and placekicks.
Saints Honor Deuce McAllister But Forget About Joe Horn
I'm Here, I'm Listening
The New Orleans Saints recently where going to have former Saints running back Deuce McAllister to be an honorary captain that is till they went ahead and added him to the roster.Now the question is raised as the Saints are going to their first Super Bowl in franchise history, where is former reciever and good will ambasdor Joe Horn?
When the Saints had to pick up and move their team to San Antonio, Horn came into this city and embraced it while telling us that New Orleans was home and to never forget the people of it, so now I ask in his defense are the Saints forget him?
“I never sat in the stands before, but I was up there with the fans, and they were just stunned to see me,” Horn said. “I wanted to sit in the nose-bleed section. I wanted to be with the rowdy of the rowdies, and I also wanted to be me, and that’s exactly what I was. The 50 to 100 people who got the autographs and the hugs from me, they got them, and they enjoyed themselves, and I enjoyed myself.”
“But they kept asking me throughout the game, ‘Joe, we love it that you’re up here with us, sharing your hot dogs, eating popcorn with us, enjoying the game with us, but why aren’t you down on the sidelines right now?’ “
It was because Horn wasn’t invited. Since his tenure ended in New Orleans and going to the Atlanta Falcons after he famously ripped head coach Sean Payton by saying the town wasn’t big enough for both me, he hasn’t exactly been very welcomed.
He has always been the most vocal player on the Saints just as he was after Hurricane Katrina and would tell anyone that would listen that this team needed to go back to New Orleans and help the people their rebuild.
After Archie Manning, Horn was New Orleans. He was the Saints and it’s only fitting to see the team open its arms for McAllister but at the same time it should have big enough arms for Joe as well.
