The Official: Time to 'fess-up' THREAD...

[The Dude]

Since we are fessing up, Im the one that banged the cheerleader. Haslett just caught the wrap.

[jlouhill]

Well I just have one to add:

I thought I would never see the Saints win a Super Bowl in my lifetime!

[SloMotion]

I don't know if I can come up with 5, but here goes:

1) I never thought the Saints would win a SuperBowl, especially after Katrina ... never in a million years ... maybe come close, but never win it all.

2) At first I didn't think it was fair that they let Tom Dempsey kick with that specialized shoe, and then I thought, "eh, what could it hurt?".

[GoofySaint]

I feel really good about myself. Cause I actually thought Brees would do great when he came here.

I also never gave up on the saints. Honestly there's a dozen other franchises that have a WAAYYYYYYYYY worse history than us.

Browns
Lions
Eagles
Jets
seahawks
bucs
cardinals

You never hear people talk about how bad the 9ers were in the 70s. Or the steelers in the 60s.

We've had TWO good decades(90s and 2000s and we'll probably have another good one in this decade). Most teams don't have any.

[|Mitch|]

Originally Posted by GoofySaint

We've had TWO good decades(90s and 2000s and we'll probably have another good one in this decade). Most teams don't have any.

You consider the Mora/Ditka decade(90's) good?

[GoofySaint]

Originally Posted by |Mitch|

You consider the Mora/Ditka decade(90's) good?

When we go down in history as perhaps the greatest linebacking corps ever? Yes I do. You should too.

We just need to make history. Not win a super bowl.

[|Mitch|]

Originally Posted by GoofySaint

When we go down in history as perhaps the greatest linebacking corps ever? Yes I do.

We just need to make history. Not win a super bowl.

All 4 LBs on The Dome Patrol was on the team from 1986-1992, after that it went downhill until '06... I don't think of the '90s being that good for us, after '92 we didn't make the playoffs until '00

[GoofySaint]

Originally Posted by |Mitch|

All 4 LBs on The Dome Patrol was on the team from 1986-1992, after that it went downhill until '06... I don't think of the '90s being that good for us, after '92 we didn't make the playoffs until '00

Nonetheless That's still a decade.

Maybe I should change that to the (late 80s/early 90s and the 2000s and the coming decade).

That's still 2 more good decades than most franchises.(even if one of those decades was 2 halves put together).

Plus 8 years to reach the playoffs isn't much when you think what the lions have had to go through.

[Vrillon82]

Originally Posted by GoofySaint

I feel really good about myself. Cause I actually thought Brees would do great when he came here.

I also never gave up on the saints. Honestly there's a dozen other franchises that have a WAAYYYYYYYYY worse history than us.

Browns
Lions
Eagles
Jets
seahawks
bucs
cardinals

You never hear people talk about how bad the 9ers were in the 70s. Or the steelers in the 60s.

We've had TWO good decades(90s and 2000s and we'll probably have another good one in this decade). Most teams don't have any.

I think its interesting to make a list of how long in terms of years it took for some teams to win a championship.

Steelers took about as long as the Saints did, some teams are waiting longer.

[GoofySaint]

Originally Posted by Vrillon82

I think its interesting to make a list of how long in terms of years it took for some teams to win a championship.

Steelers took about as long as the Saints did, some teams are waiting longer.

I don't go by how teams did BEFORE the afc nfc merger cause


1. It was much, much, MUCH different to win a normal championship in those days. The rules were different.

2. There never was such thing AS the "super bowl".

3. The steelers in those days were not the steelers. At times I think they were even called the Pittsburgh pirates and the "steagles".

The point is the steelers were as much the steelers as the Cleveland browns are the Baltimore ravens.

I give the steelers a pass. There were a LOT of good teams then and they were new.

I was just pointing out how dumb it is how people say we were a bad franchise.

We weren't

We had TWO bad decades(70s and 90s and they weren't that bad since we had archie manning and the browns and bucs had meh) but in another decade we're the greatest linebacking corps ever and in another we're technically the greatest NFC team ever. You call that bad?

The 9ers had TWO bad decades too. (70s and 2000s) yet the 9ers are the pride and joy of the nfl cause they got 4 super bowls in a decade when there were basically no other good teams but they're the pride and joy of the NFL? BS