How the Saints get pumped...

As you can see, pumping a team up for a game is something not just anyone can do. Once you find the leader that inspires the team like no other, it is about finding the right ritual that all of the team believes will get them ready to play well, whether they need that ritual or not to play well is up to you to decide. For the New Orleans Saints, Drew Brees is the man and everyone around him knows it. Last season he had another great year and he took the pregame ritual from the movie "300," where the spartans all yell in unison after their leader asks them what their profession is. Brees modified this a bit and as you can see in the video above and at the end of it he yells "This is New Orleans!." The Saints did this before every game last year during what was a mediocre season. Brees knew he had to come up with something new and different to inspire his team and when he visited troops and did a morning boot camp with them he learned a chant which he thought would be perfect for the team. That chant is the bottom link above and no one really knows what they are saying and Brees isn't about to tell anyone either. All of this is proof to how they have to start the game the same way for the entire season, and when that doesn't work they have to start all over again next year with something new. Does yelling and screaming in unison actually help their performances on the field? Well there really is no way to tell but I know I get pumped up just watching the videos, so maybe a pregame ritual does have something to do with performance. After all, the Saints are still perfect, so maybe they are on to something...

-Josh