In honor of the Andrew Breibart School of Journalism, I’m introducing a new regular segment to BONO Sports wherein I take real but otherwise benign snippets from weekly conference calls with opposing team’s head coaches, mix them up and present something totally inappropriate.

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Photograph by Jonathan Bachman

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This week Brad Childress from the Minnesota Vikings comes to terms with his man-love for Drew Brees.

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You’ve seen Drew a long time. What impresses you about him?

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He’s going to let it go early, not that he can’t drill it in there to you. He finds another way to condition himself, he’s just kind of building his body.

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Do you anticipate emotions being unusually high?

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“You better play this game from an emotionally aroused level. Obviously it will be another electric atmosphere. ”

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Do you feel like you’re the Christians being thrown to the lions?

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“It’s not like a hurricane coming where you can see it from far off in the distance. This is a typical business from this standpoint. You know the drumbeat’s going to continue. We went through it all last year. I think it will all take care of itself from our standpoint and their standpoint.

BLACK MEN OF LABOR 17TH ANNUAL LABOR DAY PARADE
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2010 3-7pm

Black Men of Labor Parade. Starts later which means cooler temps. Short manageable downtown route; traditional brass band music, old school style parade; family-oriented fun. Well…there’s always some blunt smoking and getting wet but you can’t fight city hall so…

Note: The route is the same as last year, so we’re presuming the stops are too.

PARADE ROUTE:

Start: Sweet Lorraine’s Jazz Club, 1931 St. Claude Ave. Up N. Rampart

Stop: Donna’s Bar and Grill, N. Rampart and St. Ann. (Now closed but the parade might still go by to pay its respects.) Back down N. Rampart. Left on Barracks.

Stop: Little People’s Place. Down Barracks to Treme St.. Right on Treme. Down Treme to Esplanade Avenue. Left on Esplanade. Down Esplanade to N. Robertson. Right on N. Robertson.

Stop: Candle Light Bar (Dumaine Gang). Out N. Robertson to Basin. Right on Basin to N. Claiborne Avenue. Right on Claiborne. Out Claiborne to St. Bernard Ave. Left on St. Bernard Avenue.

Stop: Seal’s Class Act, St. Bernard Ave. and N. Miro. U-Turn, down St. Bernard.

Stop: Sunday S&P Club, St. Bernard and N. Robertson. Continue on St. Bernard.

Stop: The Perfect Fit, St. Bernard and Urquhart St. Continue on St. Bernard.

Stop: Popular Ladies S&P Club, corner of St. Bernard and Maris St. Continue on St. Bernard.

Stop: Sidney’s Saloon, corner of St. Bernard Ave. and St. Claude. Out St. Bernard to N. Rampart. Left on Rampart.

Disband: Sweet Lorraine’s

Whether you think of Danny Bonaduce as the lost-middle-child star of The Partridge Family or the former child-star doomed to publicity events like boxing Greg Brady (aka Barry William Blenkhorn) and Donny Osmond (Bonaduce won both fights), you’d have to agree he’s famous. At least famous enough to present a hand-painted guitar to the winner of Fat Tuesday Daiquiris 190 Octane Odyssey contest. The three finalists will be onhand Saturday, Sept. 4, at New Orleans Original Daiquiris/Fat Tuesday (633 Bourbon St.) to see who the big winner is. But everyone’s a winner between 8 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., when 190 Octane daiquiris are free, and you can meet Bonaduce. C’mon, get happy!

Yes, ladies and gentleman, you can say what you will about who may get cut and what the final roster will look like but the greatest part about the Saints game tonight is that the long, grueling off-season is finally coming to a close. And you know what that means: Gratuitous smack talk all around the internet!

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That video was forwarded to me, apropos of nothing, just a few days ago. I felt that tonight would be a great time to start getting pumped for next week. Oh, and there’s this:

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A friend made that his profile picture. Saints fans are crazy fun. This is gonna be one hell of a title defense.

The Wall Street Journal calls this “the neatest thing you’ll see all day,” and since the Saints game is still an hour away, the WSJ may be right. Director Chris Milk teamed up with Google and Arcade Fire to produce a music video that personalizes itself for each watcher:

“The Wilderness Downtown,” which Google calls a “musical experience made specifically for the browser,” is set to Arcade Fire’s “We Used to Wait” and takes the viewer on a journey focused on a location from childhood — provided that the user enters the address and Google Street View covers it.

Close out all your other programs (this thing will take all your computer’s processing power), go to the site, enter the address of the house where you grew up — and watch the windows start to sprout. Play with the mouse and watch the birds fly over your old backyard, or just sit back and experience the slightly eerie feeling of seeing your street injected (almost) seamlessly in videos that emerge and shrink on your computer screen.