It will be the Saints and Steelers in the first ever NFL regular season game in Paris. Initial reports had New Orleans playing the Browns, but it turns out the Black and Gold will take on Pittsburgh in France on October 25th at 8:30 AM central time. Jeff Duncan, who covers the Saints for The Advocate and NOLA-dot-com, says if you’re planning on going, make your plans now, and plan on arriving a few days earlier, since there will be plenty of events and plenty of opportunities for networking with fellow Saints fans.
ESPN College GameDay has decided where they will be for the season opener and that will be Baton Rouge for Lane Kiffin’s debut on September 5th as the Tigers will host Clemson. Kick-off for that game is at 6:30 and it was also announced the LSU-Ole Miss game two weeks later will also kick-off at 6:30.
Ole Miss coach Lane Kiffin is receiving backlash for discussing in an interview with Vanity Fair about the struggles he had recruiting to Ole Miss because of the school’s ties to the Confederacy. Kiffin told On-3 he apologizes to anybody at Ole Miss or in Mississippi if he offended anyone, but it’s a narrative that Ole Miss coaches have been fighting forever.
The man who wrote the article, Chris Smith, was a guest on Tiger Rag Radio last night and said Kiffin knew the statement might strike a nerve, but never asked him to keep quote out of his story…
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