BY JAY PARIS – jparis@nctimes.com

LA COSTA — In-N-Out it wasn’t.

But when Saints rookies were invited to a Louisiana crawfish boil, well, you go son.

Quarterback Sean Canfield went, swallowed hard, and survived.

“I forced about six of them down,” said Canfield, a former Carlsbad High star. “I mean forced.”

Canfield is getting his arms — and his mouth — around New Orleans. Drafted in the seventh round in April, Canfield is absorbing the humidity and just what the Saints mean to their boisterous boosters.

“It’s different,” Canfield said last week while attending the NFL’s rookie symposium at La Costa Resort and Spa. “That crawfish boil was my first real taste of the spirit of the fans and their enthusiasm for that team is like no other.”

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