New Orleans Saints turn 50: Seeking your best golden memories
 

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Winning the Superbowl.

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Yes and just winning that first playoff game and beating the Vikings who killed us in our first ever playoff game!

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Inevitably.

But here is one that was significant to me, well before that.
December 31, 1990

Los Angeles Rams were the vistors to the Superdome for the last game of the that season. No matter that we were really not a good team. I was there.
There was drama in the last seconds when Morten Andersen got a second chance to kick the game winning field goal and put us into the postseason with a pathetic 8-8 record.

There was of course the Dome Patrol;
:drummer: Sam Mills, Rickey Jackson, Vaughan Johnson, Pat Swilling.

My favourite player of that time; a certain Dalton Hilliard. I still have my old 21 Saints shirt from them times.

:bng:

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The offseason following Katrina - the excitement around hiring Payton, getting Drew Brees, drafting Reggie, watching Colston destroy in pre-season games. I could really feel something special was around the corner.

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Yes, THIS. Regardless how you feel about Reggie, he lit everyone up about the Saints, and drafting him showed that the Team was serious about winning. Honestly, I didnt know squat about Payton. I still thought we would SUCK. But I was just happy New Orleans kept the Saints, even though I live closer to SA. I wouldve quit the NFL, had that happened.

-- Then training camp in Jackson, which I attended, was electric, and so were preseason games in Jackson and Shreveport, as the Saints were conducting their own old school NFL Style Barnstrorming Tour, making new fans, and solidifying old ones in outlying areas.

-- Pierre Freakin Thomas coming out of obscurity to blow up and kick out the big draft stud, and make the team.

-- U2 & Greenday showing up for the reopening of the Dome, and being surprisingly non-political about it.

-- All leading up for me to my favorite moment, since it happened in MY endzone, the Girod St. one.-- Gleason's Block, the moment The Curse lifted.

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LMAO I remember this one. Lost my rent payment on that one. Got into a fight with some LA fans at the gates right after they hit a saints fan over the head. Never saw a pair of binoculars shatter before that day. to be young and dumb again :p

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Sheeet, wat ya talking bout cher? I'm still young and dumb. Well, maybe not young!

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I attended the first playoff win, so Hakim dropping the ball has to be it for me.

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My Golden memory in one play;

2006 Divisional Playoff game. Eagles vs Saints in the Superdome

9:44 left in the 3rd quarter 1st and goal on the Eagles 5 yard line Saints down 21-13

Drew hands off to Deuce Mcallister going right. Deuce is hit hard in the backfield almost immediately but continues his forward progress and disappears into the lines where he was swallowed up by several Eagles and Saints players. There was a momentary pause in his momentum but then the whole line starts to move slowly into the Eagles end zone.

Even though the Saints were still behind, I, and probably most Saints fans, knew the Saints were going to pull it out because they wanted it more.

Oh and winning the Super Bowl a couple years later was pretty cool too.

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Steve Gleason with "The Block". What a turning point in our franchise. Oh, and of course SB XLIV. :bng:

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All the road trips from Houston to New Olreans and back from 2006 to now. Some were crazier than others but nothing beats Sunday's in the fall in the Dome