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PHILADELPHIA — If this is what it’s going to be like outside about 90 miles from here up the Jersey Turnpike four weeks from now, the Saints will gladly volunteer to experience it again.

So will their fans who were in attendance here Saturday, braving the chilly-but-bearable temperature, but hopefully not too much abuse from the notoriously obnoxious home crowd.

Erasing the stigma of being unable to win on the road, not just for the latter part of this year but in their playoff history, the Saints kept alive a seemingly impossible dream of ending the season at MetLife Stadium in Super Bowl XLVIII, leaving the full house at Lincoln Financial Field in disappointment and disbelief.

“This means we can win on the road,” running back Mark Ingram said. “We can win in cold weather as well. We can win anywhere.”

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