Saint_LB

I remember one Sunday afternoon as a teen-ager, hanging out at a friend's house, watching the Saints on TV as they were playing the Lions. In typical Saints" fashion, they had just given up a score to the Lions in the waning seconds of the game to put the Lions ahead by a point or two, I can't remember the exact score. Anyway, after the kick-off, the Saints found themselves approximately 80 yards away, and needing a field goal to win the game. There was less than 30 seconds left. Kilmer comes in, and throws a sideline route to Al Dodd, I believe it was, for about 10 or so yards, and follows that with another sideline route to Abramowicz, for about the same amount of yards. So, with about 3 seconds left on the clock, the Saints find themselves around their own 45, and me and my friend start to walk out the door to go throw the football in the front yard. But, I said to him that we should at least just watch the last play, since we had watched the rest of the game up to that point. About that time the announcer starts saying something about the Saints looking like they were sending the field goal team in. My friend and I looked at each other and said something like, "yeah, right!" But, there they came, and there he was...Dempsey lining up for a 63 yard field goal attempt. Well, the rest is history, and I sure am glad that I decided to see that one through. I remember seeing Alex Karrass on the Johnny Carson show later talking about that kick, and saying something like..."Yeah, I decided I would just bump my man and roll over and watch and have a good laugh. I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing." This has got to be one of the all-time greatest moments in Saints history, IMHO. The only thing that I can think of that would challenge that moment was the Hakim fumble at the end of our first playoff victory.