Miami Dolphins-New Orleans Saints: Fighting For The Love Of The Tuna

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Published: October 22, 2009

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... game is just about football. But it's so much more.

It's two sons fighting for their father's affections, and it's going to be a bitter family affair.

I'll elaborate.

Bill Parcells was a football coach. He was a great football coach. The people who coached underneath him during his career went on to their own coaching careers of varying success.

Coaches like Bill Belichick, Tom Coughlin, and the perpetually furious Todd Haley all coached under The Tuna. And, so did Sean Payton and Tony Sparano.

DUN-DUN-DUN.

Payton and Sparano joined Parcells during the Dallas phase of his career. For Parcells, he was at the experimental stage, he had been around long enough to realize he needed to embiggen his legend.

He was like a famous band that starts taking drugs to find inspiration. Why else would he take a job with a team that had been among his staunchest rivals while with the Giants? Don't say drugs either. That was just a metaphor.

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