Let the record reflect that it has been just as hard for New Orleans Saints kicker Charlie Smyth to rummage through and decipher the accents he has encountered as it has been for the rest of us to understand his Northern Irish tongue.

"It's interesting, because you get a real deep South accent — I find it hard," Smyth said, smiling. "The priest that says mass, he's explaining the homily and he's going over the gospel or whatever he's saying, and I'm like, 'I'm finding it hard to understand.'"

And vice versa.

"It's not so much his accent. It's that he mumbles and jumbles all of his words together," said a chuckling Saints long snapper Zach Wood , who has likely interacted with Smyth the most among Saints players. "And then when you say, 'What?', because you didn't hear what he said..

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