20th Anniversary of 1st Winning Season 1987
 

It has been 20 years since the Saints did what we Orleanians we hoping for: a winner.

Here were the starters from that Miracle Season (if I stand corrected)

OFFENSE
WR 84 Eric Martin
LT 72 Jim Dombrowski
LG 63 Brad Edelman
C 61 Joel Hilgenberg
RG 65 Steve Trapilo (RIP)
RT 67 Stan Brock
TE 85 Hoby Brenner
WR 86 Mike Jones (not the rapper or the dude who stopped Kevin Dyson one yard from the endzone)
QB 3 Bobby Hebert
HB 36 Rueben Mayes
FB 23 Buford Jordan

DEFENSE
LE 94 Jim Wilks
NT 99 Tony Elliott
RE 75 Bruce Clark
LOLB 57 Rickey "City Champ" Jackson
LILB 51 Sam "General" Mills (RIP "Keep Pounding")
RILB 53 Vaughan "Meat" Johnson
ROLB 56 Pat "Sackman" Swilling
LCB 44 David Benjamin Waymer (RIP)
SS 39 Brett Maxie
FS 27 Antonio Gibson
RCB 25 Johnnie Poe

SPECIALISTS
P 10 Brian Hansen
K 7 Morten Andersen ("Ol' Morty" still in the league??)
KR 37 Mel Gray

COACHES
HC Jim Mora ("Playoffs? Are you kidding me?.....Ooops, I mean "Coulda-Woulda-Shoulda!!")
OC/QBs Carl Smith (Bozo without the make-up)
RBs Jim Skipper
WRs Steve Walters
OL/TEs Paul Boudreaux
DC Steve Sidwell
DL John Pease
LBs Vic Fangio
DBs Dom Capers
ST Joe Marciano
Strength Coach Russell Patternostro
Trainer Dean Kleinschmidt

SONG/SLOGAN: "I Believe!"

RIP : Dave Waymer, Jim Finks & Frank Warren

Do you know what this means?????

I'm old as dirt!


but not as old as Joe!

Who you callin' old dude? I'm just glad to still be here! Assuming you were talkin to me? :)

No offense, Joe, but it was you I was talking about.

I guess that comment was just a remnant of some joking that used to go around here 2 or 3 years back.

Sometimes I miss that old gang, but not the headaches they could cause.

i knew you were joking and so do I. Some of the old guys still lurk around,I think they're just waiting to see what we have to say.

It's all in good sport my friend.

Gotta make an exception and toss ol' Dalton Hilliard in there at HB as well. :)

Curious, wasn't that the year of the strike? I thought we had replacement players in that year. I'm old too, so maybe I'm thinking of something else.

God was that a great year. I think it was even more special than last. only the superbowl will top it. You had to live through it. bags and all.
old as dirt, so be it.

I have always thought, how cool it would be, for the Saints to go back to the ol 3-4 defense. It just seemed to work better for us, back in the day. I watch the Bears, Steelers, and Ravens use it, and it just seems more effective to me. Maybe I'm on an island on this one.

1987 New Orleans Saints Roster
QB: Bobby Hebert, Dave Wilson, Baba Laufenberg, John Fourcade
RB: Rueben Mayes, Dalton Hilliard, Buford Jordan, Barry Word, Mel Gray
WR: Eric Martin, Mike Jones, Lonzell "Moe" Hill, Robert Clark, Mark Pattison
TE: Hoby Brenner, John Tice, Cliff Benson, Malcolm Scott
OL: Stan Brock, Jim Dombrowski, Brad Edelman, Steve Trapilo (RIP), Joel Hilgenberg, Steve Korte, Chuck Commisky, Bill Contz
DL: Jim Wilks, Burce Clark, Tony Elliott, Frank Warren (RIP), James "Jumpy" Geathers, Shawn Knight
LB: Rickey "City Champ" Jackson, Sam "General" Mills (RIP), Vaughan "Meat" Johnson, Pat "Sackman" Swilling, James "Hitman" Haynes, Joe Kohlbrand, Alvin Toles
DB: Dave Waymer (RIP), Johnnie Poe, Brett Maxie, Antonio Gibson, Michael Adams, Gene Atkins, Van Jakes, Milton Mack
ST: Brian Hansen, Morten Andersen

WWL-AM 870: Jim Henderson, Archie Manning, Larry Matson