Danny Spatchek
When the day Jeff Schwehm had waited his entire life for came, the New Orleans Saints first appearance in the Super Bowl, he took a nap. A lifelong Saints fan, he was too nervous to watch the pregame.
Schwehm, a Lakeland associate professor of biochemistry, grew up in the New Orleans area, and like all Saints’ fans in their early history, endured the torment entailed in rooting for one of the worst teams in the NFL.
“A lot of people went to the games and the fans always had a good showing, but that didn’t mean that the fights in the stands weren’t more interesting than the game,” Schwehm laughs, going on to recount the times when fans wore bags over their heads at the time the club earned the unflattering “Aints” nickname.
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