SmashMouth

foreverfan

Congratulations John...

Old Saints Cheer... One Cade, Two Cade, Three Cade, Forecade.

Damn that cheerleader makes him look bad. LOL

SaintGnome

Really? Why on earth?

joker-saint

vpheughan

I was at that game, the crowd began the "Stay on Strike, Stay on Strike" chant. They may have been replacement players but for 3 weeks NFL fans got to see players PLAYING at every position! Hap Glaudi's "stay out a litlle longer, these guy's will get you in the playoffs" All PRICELESS

SmashMouth

Too many Hooters chicken wings?

QBREES9

Big, Congratulations John.

jeanpierre

Wow, he's just now getting in? His "signing" with Archbishop Shaw put that Westbank program on the map...

SaintGnome

I'm really confused. Fourcade was with the Saints for four years, he had a average 50% completion rate, 14 TDs and 15 INTs, and he only started in 11 games. Is the bar that low to get into our HoF? Is there some outside of the game reason he got in, did he give his fortune to build a hospital?

RailBoss

Fourcade led the team to a 2-1 record positioning them for a 12-3 record in 1987 before losing in the Wildcard game to the Minnesota Vikings.

“That was the first winning season ever for the New Orleans Saints and the first playoff season ever,” Fourcade said.

And that strike year set Fourcade up for success and honors.

“The funny thing is, I’m in the ‘NFL 100 Greatest Touchdowns’ and it’s in NFL Follies,” he said. “Prior to the half in the Rams game, I threw a hail mary and they intercepted it and ran it down the field and their DB fumbled it and one of their linemen picked it up and started running across the field.”

With Fourcade, the last man between him and the goal line, a teammate forced the Rams lineman to fumble.
“I picked it up and ran it back 80 yards for a touchdown,” he said.

Fourcade’s strike season theatrics was also the basis for the sports movie, “The Replacements” starring Keanu Reeves and Gene Hackman.

“People have told me in Hollywood that it was based off of our strike season team,” he said.

From 1987 to 1991, Fourcade played for the Saints, first as a backup and then as a starter again.

“In 1988 I was the number two quarterback behind Bobby Herbert,” he said. “Then backup in 1989 then I started the last three games of 1989.”

Those last three games were all against teams vying for a playoff spot, but Fourcade and the Saints denied them all. They beat the Buffalo Bills in Buffalo, in the frozen temps and snow, and then hosted the Eagles and Colts.

Fourcade had injured his elbow and in 1991, Herbert came back, the team traded for Steve Walsh and had a much cheaper Mike Buck on the roster and the Louisiana Rebel didn’t heal well enough to beat them out. From there he put together a career in the Arena Football league as a player/coach through 2001 then a coach through 2008. The arena league stops were from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Miami, Florida to Mississippi and Louisiana. He now works as a commentator on both TV and radio for college and pro sports and he’d welcome the opportunity to coach on the offensive side of the football on the college level. Fourcade has also donated a lot of time and money in helping natural disaster victims across the US.

Fourcade has a nephew, Chase Fourcade, who is following in his footsteps in Louisiana as an All-State quarterback winning back-to-back state championships. There could be another Louisiana Rebel in the making, but he’s got some big shoes to fill and a heck of a legend to follow. – RN