RailBoss

NEW ORLEANS -- It would be tough to find anyone in the Superdome today with more connections to Super Bowl XLVII than San Francisco 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio. The 54-year-old defensive mastermind, who came over from Stanford to San Francisco with head coach Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Greg Roman before the 2011 season, coached the New Orleans Saints' linebackers from 1986 through 1994. That's when the "Dome Patrol" group, considered by many to be the greatest linebacker foursome in NFL history, came to prominence.
Outside linebackers Rickey Jackson and Pat Swilling, and inside linebackers Sam Mills and Vaughan Johnson, comprised a squad no offense wanted to face. All four of them were voted to the Pro Bowl in 1992, the last season of a seven-year span in which they were all together. From 1987 through 1992, the formerly moribund Saints never had a losing season, and won 10 or more games four different times.

K Major

Those were good times.

billyt81

You could not run on those teams period. I remember once when we played Reggie White, Buddy Ryan, Randal Cunningham's Eagles 89 I think(also a great D u couldn't run on) and the game broke records for time because neither team bothered to run hence the clock rarely ran much. Yeah...good times.