Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs : Cpt. Caveman's TTM Autographs Special Bonus Post Graphing The New Orleans Saints Part 1 and 2

Welcome to a special bonus IP graphing post.
This week the New Orleans Saints return to The Greenbrier Sports Complex here in White Sulpher Springs West Virginia for Training Camp and you know what that means right?
Autographs! The Saints arrived Wednesday the 27th and after reporting the team helped rebuild a local park and football field for the local kids that was destroyed in the recent flooding. Thursday the 28th was the first official practice and was open to the public. We arrived in town a little after 9 in the morning. Training runs from 9:30-12:30 with players signing autographs after. So with plenty of time we found one of the few last parking spaces at one of the bus pick up points to travel to the sports complex. Just our luck a few schools football teams all stood waiting on the bus when we arrived and after 3 buses full left we finally got on one. Its a free event but you can only gain access by riding the shuttle buses they provide, but they charge $5 for adults and $2 for children 12 and under so its really not a bad deal. After a short bus ride and security check we found our spot along the fence right on the 50 yard line and watched Drew Brees and the rest of the Saints do what they do best. Today wasn't a padded practice so it was alot of drills but still great to watch. We took a bunch of photos. Ill share some below with some of today's autographs. Towards the end of practice people started coming down and lining up along the fence. When the players started to come over to the line it was like the entire line did the wave but instead of people its was a wave of sharpies being pulled out, including Winter and me who were both armed with a pocket full of multi colored sharpies that we never used because the players already came armed with them. Once the signing started things went pretty smoothly with players coming down the line talking, signing and taking pictures. One player informed us that instead of everyone coming over to sign like in previous years that only so many players will sign a day and they rotate daily. This worked out pretty well, everyone got multiple autographs and had a great time but I was starting to worry that our main one we came for Drew Brees might not sign today. After most of the days players that were signing started to finish up Brees started to walk over to the line and started signing about 50 feet down and was going the other direction. Well this didn't make a bunch of people happy at the beginning of the line and he kept signing towards the end, so that crowd figured out what was going on and made a dash to surround Brees. Winter and a alot of other kids tried getting in to him but a bunch of older adults wouldn't dare move for them. Winter tried a few more times to push in until finally I just picked her up and lifted her above all the adults and close enough for Drew to see her calling to him. He came over laughed, smiled and signed her card. After that she was one happy camper lol. We went back down to our original spot and while Winter got a few more autographs on her hat I went and got the other two Quarter Back's that had come over to sign. We had an amazing graphing day. We got the main player we really wanted and walked away with 23 Saints autographs and this is only the first day. After it was all over we walked back to the car because it was really close and the line for the shuttle was way to long lol. We had such a great time and weather permitting we'll have more to come. Stay tuned right here for daily updates on our graphing experiences at the New Orleans Saints Training Camp. Enjoy we sure did it was a great way to celebrate the blogs anniversary. Ill be back Saturday with this weeks TTM successes with new autographs and tested addresses.

Drew Brees

3-QB's

Brees, Luke McCown and Garrett Grayson

Day 1 Autographs

(see full list of players and autographs below)

Winter ready with a purse full of cards and sharpies

On the 50

The 3 QB's

Field gooooooaaaaal

Best feet on the field

James Laurinaitis #53

Garrett Grayson #18

Daniel Lasco #36

Travis Cadet #38

Luke McCown #7

Dillon Lee #57

Dannell Ellerbe #59

Zach Strief #64

Jared Dangerfield #85

Luke McCown #7

Marcus Murphy #23

Austin Johnson #35

Garrett Grayson #18

C.J. Spiller #28

Daniel Lasco #36

Stephone Anthony #50

Dillon Lee #57

James Laurinaitis #53

Zach Strief #64

Hey Drew the line starts back here lol

Signing away

everyone was so nice

DAY 2

We arrived a little later the second day because we had some errands to run before we went. When we got there they had about an hour left until they finished up. We were in a different location today they have another field down in a hidden spot below the main complex. Everyone was lined up and waiting when the Saints started to come over and sign. Things went great today. The players that signed today started at one end and went down signing for anyone who wanted one. The Quarter Backs waited until everyone else was about done then they came over to sign and it was the same situation with them. All three including Drew Brees started at one end and signed for anyone that had something to sign. I got a card signed and then Winter got another signed by Drew. Her 2nd she's a natural born grapher lol. Everyone was great and took pictures with anyone that asked. Winter got Tom Benson the owner of the team when he rode up on a golf cart but he hung out for only a few minutes and left. Head coach Sean Payton walked up and down the line but didn't sign or acknowledged anyone. It was a much better atmosphere today then yesterday when everyone just rushed Brees. The nice woman beside us was overjoyed to tears and shaking away after getting Drew to sign her football. Winter had a blast and added more signatures to her hat and we both got alot of autograph and index cards signed. Our total today was 45 autographs including our double Brees score. Hopefully if the weather hold out tomorrow will be just as good. Enjoy the pictures from today and the autographs we got today graphing the Saints training camp I know we enjoyed getting them.

Day 2 Pictures and autographs