Fleur-De-Lis Fever | Saints Make Another Head-Scratching Roster Move

Death, taxes, and Kevin Houser snapping the ball on special teams for the Saints. Now, you can forget about that last one. Yesterday, the New Orleans Saints announced that they parted ways with long snapper Kevin Houser. Houser was a seventh round pick by the Saints in 2000 out of Ohio State. Normally, this wouldn't make much in the way of headlines but considering that Houser was the longest tenured Saint and seemed to have done everything to keep his job, this move comes as a surprise. Houser's 144 NFL games rank him fourth on the Saints all-time list.  More impressively, those 144 games are all consecutive.  He was scheduled to break Jim Dombrowski's team record of 148 in week six at home against the New York Giants. Houser was one of four Saints who were a member of at least two division-winning teams (Fred McAfee, Joe Horn, and Steve Gleason are the others). When I learned yesterday that Houser had been cut, I figured the Saints had signed someone younger to take his ... (link)