Saints' amazing ride comes to distressing end
 

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Saints' amazing ride comes to distressing end
By Pete Prisco
SportsLine.com Senior Writer

CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- As New Orleans Saints coach Jim Haslett leaned against a wall in the visitor's locker room of Bank of America Stadium early Sunday evening, he uttered the words that five other NFC teams should be thinking.

Willie Whitehead and Victor Riley enjoy the moment, but that's it for the Saints. (AP)
"Nobody in the NFC wanted to play us." Haslett said. "It's a shame we won't get the chance. That's the toughest part."

Highs and lows in the NFL usually come from week to week. The Saints lived it in 30 minutes Sunday.

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