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MNF History: 42 games all time for our Saints

this is a discussion within the Saints Community Forum; Originally Posted by CHA_CHING FP recently published this neat article breaking down every team's MNF appearances split between road and home. The NFL Likes The Giants On Monday Night Football — On the Road In 49 years of MNF, our ...

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Old 05-28-2019, 08:59 PM   #1
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FP recently published this neat article breaking down every team's MNF appearances split between road and home.

The NFL Likes The Giants On Monday Night Football — On the Road

In 49 years of MNF, our Saints have been in a total of 42 games. 31 of those games were at home, 11 were on the road.

I did some more digging out of curiosity - our first ever MNF game was in 1972, the third year of MNF's existence. The Saints hosted the Chiefs at Tulane stadium and we lost 20-17.

It's interesting to note that MNF was reserved back in the day only for the good teams, yet for 3 consecutive years, they gave our Saints a game back then. They were blown out in Dallas in 1973 and then were beat down by Pittsburgh at home in Tulane stadium in 1974. It would be 5 years after that before our Saints got another MNF game and it just so happened to be the Raiders game at the dome where Ken Stabler had the huge comeback.

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Yea... Playing the Raiders on Monday Dec 3, 1979.

We were up 14-35 at halftime before we lost 42-35. That was the last season Manning would have a great season and make the Probowl.



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Yea... Playing the Raiders on Monday Dec 3, 1979.

We were up 14-35 at halftime before we lost 42-35. That was the last season Manning would have a great season and make the Probowl.



Raiders/Saints 1979 (Abreviated Game) - YouTube
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I remember my dad talking about this game, "The Snake" & how the Saints losing focus .

Monday Night meltdown.
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I remember my dad talking about this game, "The Snake" & how the Saints losing focus .

Monday Night meltdown.

Yea... I lived it.

It was on TV because it was one of the first Monday Night Football games and the TV station bought out all of the tickets.
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