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Being a Saints fan isn't a quiz show. No amount of trivia knowledge will make you a fan and not knowing who played left tackle in 1972 against the Eagles doesn't make you any less of a fan.

If you love the Saints you are a fan. It is that simple.

If you have fond feeling for any man who ever strapped on a Saints helmet you are a fan of the Saints.

If you hate certain players because they didn't play as well as you wanted or ruined the Saints chances you aren't a Saints fan.

You are a fan of success.

Part of me doesn't want the Saints to ever win the Superbowl. A large part of the fun of being a Saints fan is the fact that we keep coming back and loving this team although they have never won the big game.

Once the Saints win the Superbowl, it will be easy to be a Saints fan. We will stop looking forward, always looking to next year. We will become like all those sad fans pointing backwards to the glory of yesteryear.

Right now, "I'm a Saints fan" carries with it the pride of enduring 42 years of hardship.

Once the Saints win it all we will forever have to say "I was a Saints fan before they won the Superbowl".

I'll be celebrating like a mad man the day the Saints win the Superbowl. I hope desperately my parents live to see that day so I can see the joy in their faces.

But in my heart I know it will be bittersweet because being a Saints fan will change forever on that magical day.