By Ben Ice, RotoExperts.com, Special to SI.com Poor Ed Hochuli. There was a time when he was unassailable. His football acumen, like his biceps, was solid as a rock. When Hochuli took the field, you knew he'd keep the players and coaches in line and the fans well informed. After last Monday night's contest between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings, sales of voodoo dolls rose sharply in Louisiana's largest city and the streets rang with the howls of incensed Saints fans feeling that they, like fans before them in San Diego and Carolina, had been victims of his suddenly faulty administration of the rules of the game. Chants of "Who Dat" were followed by the raucous shouts of "Hochuli!" as effigies of Hochuli and his crew were paraded through the streets. The talking heads on network sports shows fanned the flames...
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