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Terron Armstead, like everyone else in the New Orleans Saints locker room, has waited for this chance all his life.

The Saints' left tackle, in his sixth NFL season, knows these opportunities don't come along often.

So Armstead appreciates the magnitude of what will happen at 2:05 p.m. Sunday in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, when the Saints play in what is easily the franchise's most significant game in nine years.

"Growing up, you always dream about the Super Bowl," Armstead said. "The bright lights. The thrill of it. Being a champion. Football immortality. Playing a game we love. It's so close."



The Saints haven't been this close since the 2009-10 season when they won their first and only world championship. If the No. 1 seeded Saints (14-3) can beat the No. 2 Los Angeles Rams (14-3) in Sunday's NFC championship game, they'll head to Atlanta for Super Bowl LIII on Feb. 3.

"When you put yourself in a position like we did to be able to be where we are, we want to seize every moment," receiver Ted Ginn Jr said.

Ginn is seeking his third trip to the Super Bowl, having played in one with the San Francisco 49ers and another with the Carolina Panthers.

He's hungry to get back again. So is his coach, who will take part in his third NFC championship since taking over the Saints in 2006.

This is what Sean Payton says drives him.

"It's like a drug a little bit once you've been to this game," Payton said. "And I've told our guys that. Many of them haven't. But once you've been to it, it's hard to describe. So picture your most exciting thing you can envision, outside of certain family things, and then times it by a thousand."

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