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Welcome back for another special In Person Graphing bonus post. Today was the final day for the Saints training camp here in West Virginia. As soon as they're finished this afternoon they fly out to Texas to train with and play a pre season game against the Texans before finally heading home to Louisiana. Since it was our final graphing day we headed over early to watch the practice and to make sure we didn't miss anything. You have to remember we live in the middle of nowhere West Virginia so unless we seriously travel we just dont have many in person graphing opportunities so we definitely take full advantage of the ones we do get and with the flood cancelling out the PGA tour event the Saints camp is our one big event this year. That's why we do alot of our graphing TTM. I'd love to get a convention of some sort here in WV. We occasionally get one in Virginia but that's about it. Anyways back to the Saints. Since last time before they left to play the Patriots almost everyone came over to sign but we only expected the usual 8-10 a day so we didn't come prepared but not today. We showed up with enough pictures to cover everyone if needed along with extra sharpies because the players have been using their own the entire time and some have started to run dry. We watched another great practice. Its definitely been an experience attending this training camp and I highly recommend attending one if you ever get the chance. Not just for autographs but the entire experience. Its really been so much fun. Winter got settled in to the kids area and I found a spot around the middle of the signing line. I talked with another local collector I knew and waited for the practice to end. Our old annoying buddy the "Hey Iv got you on my sign" guy returned today and aggravated every player he could before practice ended. Once they finally finished up alot of players headed inside but plenty came over to sign. We both worked on a few multi pictures. Winter kept asking them to sign the picture but alot signed the folder she used to hold the picture for signing. After they finished up the Quarterbacks headed over and signed down the line. I got nice pictures of Grayson and McCown signed. While Winter worked on a picture of all three together. I had a nice 8x10 ready for Drew today and as he came closer I opened my folder to get it ready and the wind blew several pictures away. Luckily the one of Brees landed right at his feet. He proceeded to pick it up and asked if anyone had dropped it. I said yes I had and then he signed it and handed it back then signed my 8x10. Wow such a nice guy. He has really went out of his way for the fans while he's been here. After I finished mine I walked down to watch Winter get Brees. He signed her multi picture of the QB's and then she asked him for his sweatband off his wrist. After asking several times he finally took it off and handed it to her then signed another 4x6 for her. That all made her day. She's been trying to get one from him the entire camp. After she was finished we packed up and headed home. We're sad its over but we had the best time ever. Today's total was 33 autographs and all together we managed to get 236 Saints autographs with 17 of those being Drew Brees autographs for our collection. The New Orleans Saints have been so amazing to the fans here in West Virginia. We hope they have an amazing season. Sadly this ends our IP graphing at the Saints training camp so until next year enjoy a last few pictures and today's autographs from the New Orleans Saints Training Camp here in Beautiful Wild and Wonderful West Virginia.
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Today's Autographs
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Drew Brees-Luke McCown-Garrett Grayson
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Drew Brees
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Garrett Grayson-Luke McCown
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My Multi Signed Picture
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Winters Multi Signed Picture and Folder
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