The phone rings.
"Who dis?"
Michael Thomas answers, "It's the New Orleans Saints."
"Who dat?"
The receiver responds, "The NFL's best team, that's who."
Thomas' performance during Sunday's 45-35 victory over the previously unbeaten Los Angeles Rams will be long discussed due to his on-field production and touchdown celebration.
"That's something that some kids don't do, to pay homage to an old soul," former Saints wide receiver Joe Horn said of Thomas' cell-phone tribute, per the Times-Picayune's Larry Holder. "For him to do it on a national stage took a lot of courage.