Saints Lottry to help oil spill victims

[CRedskinsRule]

Hope everyone buys some tickets. Always for anything that is going to help encourage charity and giving.

https://www.celebritiesforcharity.or...aints_ring.cfm

[firstdown]

I got a security warning to that link.

[Schneed10]

As did I. Definitely sends up some red flags.

[CRedskinsRule]

I did too, but both Schefter and King tweeted it so I went ahead. hope I didn't f up...

SI_PeterKing

"@JDBurklow: Saints having online lottery to benefit Gulf Coast. $2 tickets. Winner gets a Super Bowl Ring www.saintsgulfcoastrenewal.org 27 minutes ago via Twitter for BlackBerry®

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by Schneed10

As did I. Definitely sends up some red flags.

Yep. Times like these are when the crooks and opportunists come out.

[CRedskinsRule]

New Orleans Saints to raffle off Super Bowl ring with proceeds to benefit Gulf Coast renewal | - NOLA.com

Times Picayune story about it, Saints announced it this morning, but they say the link didn't exist yet Hope the one above turns out to be right...

[firstdown]

I thought BP would pay all of their lost income and if they don't Obama said he would kick some ass. That made me feel much better about the situation. CRR if you can find a better link let us know.

[CRedskinsRule]

Try this one, no error on mine this time, but let me know if it works.

https://www.celebritiesforcharity.or...aints_ring.cfm

[firstdown]

I check several companies that rank charity groups and none of them showed anything for celebrities for charity. Maybe I typed something in wrong but I could not even find them on their list of charities. I wonder whats up with that.

[CRedskinsRule]

Guys, this has got to be the worst planning for an official announcement ever. Here is the New Orleans Saints official website announcement, and everything looks legit, but wow, it seems bogus when you poke into it...
Saints Gulf Coast Renewal Raffle Announced

you can also go to nfl.com, pick the saints home page, and they have a link to this page.

[CRedskinsRule]

but the link they give doesn't work. Really someone needed to put a better web package together for this...

[firstdown]

I don't donate to any charity if I cannot look them up on any of the charity rating guides. I don't care if its $1 or $100 I want to know how much of the money actually makes it to the cause.

[CRedskinsRule]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I don't donate to any charity if I cannot look them up on any of the charity rating guides. I don't care if its $1 or $100 I want to know how much of the money actually makes it to the cause.

Like I said, it looks legit to me - the link left off the www, and that causes the untrusted connection error - HOWEVER, for an NFL team project it was very poorly put together and they should have used a respected charity organization like you say, rather than this one.

[Monkeydad]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I thought BP would pay all of their lost income and if they don't Obama said he would kick some ass. That made me feel much better about the situation. CRR if you can find a better link let us know.

I keep thinking about this scenario:

[firstdown]

Originally Posted by Buster

I keep thinking about this scenario:

Thats funny. If you look at that clip notice to be politically correct they have just about every nationality in that gang.