"sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday"

RailBoss · 11-07-2019, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by WHODATINCA

Wow, that was even painful for me to read. Ouch. First time I have ever felt sorry for them.

They are just Fans like us for the most part, however if the situation was reversed I doubt we would get much sympathy from the Dirty Bird Flock.

WhoDat!656 · 11-07-2019, 08:03 AM

I remember a Saints-49ers game in the Superdome that a wide open Rice caught a deep pass and as he was running into the endzone and holding the ball with one hand and around the 10 yd line he fumbled the ball and it went out the back of the endzone and because the official was so far behind he couldn't tell it was a fumble and awarded them a TD.

44Champs · 11-07-2019, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by CHA_CHING

I'm the same way with Steve Young LOL. Hated having to watch him batter and beat us to a bloody pulp twice a year, but I had a lot of respect for him as a player, and in advanced stats, Young pretty much is the QB that they desperately wish Aaron Rodgers was. Rodgers matches him with an all time best TD/INT ratio, but his efficiency numbers are poor while Young was an MVP candidate up in his late 30s. The big 3 elite QBs in that era were Favre, Young and a past his prime Aikman behind them (after his back injury, he was never the same again but still commanded respect for his 3 rings). Young had the numbers to be behind Favre in the MVP QB debates, where as Aaron Rodgers really falls short behind the Manning, Brady, Brees trio for most of the years. If social media existed back in the 90s and advanced stats, Young would've got all the praise and credit that Rodgers gets now. They would most likely even label him potential GOAT for his crazy efficiency numbers and when he retired, he had the all time best TD/INT ratio.

I hated having to deal with Kurt Warner back in his prime with the Rams but he is also one of my all time favorite QBs. He was likable and easy to root for being that his journey with the rags to riches story. I rooted for him hard when the Cards made that SB in 2008.

I know some older Falcons fans who are cool and I get along with them, not much trash talk and we've been to games. But then again, they're older and come from our generation, we're mostly chilled out now and not rowdy anymore.

Talking football with older Falcons fans is pretty funny though cause they hate those old 49ers teams as much as we do. They really caught a break in 1998 by getting ahead of the Niners in the twilight of their dynasty and yet even in that year, the Falcons had to win 14 games to get the division.

One bad memory I have of Atlanta back in the day was seeing Morten Andersen go there and I don't have the time this morning to pull up the game, but I know there is one game where he kicked multiple 40-50 yard kicks on us which was like daggers going into the heart. Hated seeing him in a Falcons uniform making those clutch long distance kicks.

I STILL haven't fully embraced Morten Anderson back into the Who Dat Nation. Or Bobby Hebert for that matter. LOL

Rugby Saint II · 11-07-2019, 01:07 PM

I hate Atlanta! I hate the city! I hate the people! I hate the traffic! And I really hate their football team! Even their rugby teams are a bunch of dildoes! Did I mention that I hate Atlanta?

SmashMouth · 11-07-2019, 01:38 PM

Originally Posted by WhoDat!656

I remember a Saints-49ers game in the Superdome that a wide open Rice caught a deep pass and as he was running into the endzone and holding the ball with one hand and around the 10 yd line he fumbled the ball and it went out the back of the endzone and because the official was so far behind he couldn't tell it was a fumble and awarded them a TD.

Oh.... I 'member too !

homerj07 · 11-07-2019, 02:12 PM

And they always talk about our fans being classless but... they need to look in a mirror.

CHA_CHING · 11-07-2019, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by 44Champs

I STILL haven't fully embraced Morten Anderson back into the Who Dat Nation. Or Bobby Hebert for that matter. LOL

Herbert is hands down the most overrated Saints player in our franchise history IMO. The biggest weakness of the Mora/Dome Patrol teams was that they had the historical equivalent of Blake Bortles at QB. He still won a lot of games due to that defense but that didn't make him great. The NFC was tough back then and the NFCCG was the real SB. It wasn't like the AFC where the 2000 Ravens with Dilfer got to go through crappy teams. Every team that ever beat us in the playoffs and the 49ers knew damn well that Herbert was our biggest weakness and as long as you brought pressure on him and could force him to throw INTs, all you had to do was not turn the ball over against our defense, and they could grind out a hard fought win.

I have never understood fans that defend Herbert. He was so bad that we pretty much got screwed by Jimmy Johnson and Dallas trading a draft pick for Steve Walsh who was an even worse QB than Herbert.

Herbert saved his WORST games for the playoffs. We were on route to putting the Falcons in a hole in the 1991 game. Up 10-0, he throws a pick right to Sanders in the endzone. We could've been up 17-0 and had them buried. That one play changed that entire game. Then the 1992 game, he just stunk it up so bad, even though we had a 20-7 lead early in that game. The two best years of the Dome Patrol were wasted on him being the QB.

What drove me nuts was seeing him go to Atlanta and have his only pro bowl season and put up decent numbers in the Run-N-Shoot offense for one year. But even that season really wasn't all that great or they wouldn't have been willing to move on to Jeff George.

SaintGup · 11-08-2019, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by CHA_CHING

I used to believe this but I think in the past decade, we've really witnessed the height of the Saints/Falcons rivalry.

The previous height was 1991, the only time back in the day that both teams made the playoffs and that 1991 playoff loss is still for me, the most heartbreaking of all playoff losses. I will never forget back then. I was so young and when Michael Haynes made that long TD run, I felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest.

I don't even think the Falcons were the most hated of our rivals back in the 80's and 90's, it was the 49ers. Those of us who grew up back then hated them with a burning passion with most of us older fans still hating them. Older Falcons fans talk about the 49ers in the same way we do. They were just like us; always having to deal with that Goliath in their path any time their team had a winning season. The 1998 Falcons really caught a huge break by having their winning season in a year where the Niners dynasty was finally in it's twilight and burning out. We didn't get that lucky in the early 90s since the Niners were able to pick up where they left off after installing Steve Young as the starting QB. It didn't matter that we were 12-4 in 1992, we couldn't even win the division cause the Niners had to go 14-2 that year.

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Actually, we went 12-3 and the 49ers went 13-2. We rattled off 9 straight wins and lost to the Vikings.

Crusader · 11-08-2019, 06:50 AM

Originally Posted by Rugby Saint II

I hate Atlanta! I hate the city! I hate the people! I hate the traffic! And I really hate their football team! Even their rugby teams are a bunch of dildoes! Did I mention that I hate Atlanta?

See my sig...

CHA_CHING · 11-08-2019, 09:02 PM

Originally Posted by SaintGup

Actually, we went 12-3 and the 49ers went 13-2. We rattled off 9 straight wins and lost to the Vikings.

That was 1987, not 1992.

11-07-2019, 07:34 AM	#21
RailBoss 5000 POSTS! + Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: South Of The Mason Dixon Line Posts: 7,113	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" Originally Posted by WHODATINCA Wow, that was even painful for me to read. Ouch. First time I have ever felt sorry for them. They are just Fans like us for the most part, however if the situation was reversed I doubt we would get much sympathy from the Dirty Bird Flock.

11-07-2019, 08:03 AM	#22
WhoDat!656 10000 POST CLUB Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Shreveport,Louisiana Posts: 16,046	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" I remember a Saints-49ers game in the Superdome that a wide open Rice caught a deep pass and as he was running into the endzone and holding the ball with one hand and around the 10 yd line he fumbled the ball and it went out the back of the endzone and because the official was so far behind he couldn't tell it was a fumble and awarded them a TD. SmashMouth likes this.

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44Champs Site Donor Join Date: Dec 2010 Posts: 2,589	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" Originally Posted by CHA_CHING I'm the same way with Steve Young LOL. Hated having to watch him batter and beat us to a bloody pulp twice a year, but I had a lot of respect for him as a player, and in advanced stats, Young pretty much is the QB that they desperately wish Aaron Rodgers was. Rodgers matches him with an all time best TD/INT ratio, but his efficiency numbers are poor while Young was an MVP candidate up in his late 30s. The big 3 elite QBs in that era were Favre, Young and a past his prime Aikman behind them (after his back injury, he was never the same again but still commanded respect for his 3 rings). Young had the numbers to be behind Favre in the MVP QB debates, where as Aaron Rodgers really falls short behind the Manning, Brady, Brees trio for most of the years. If social media existed back in the 90s and advanced stats, Young would've got all the praise and credit that Rodgers gets now. They would most likely even label him potential GOAT for his crazy efficiency numbers and when he retired, he had the all time best TD/INT ratio. I hated having to deal with Kurt Warner back in his prime with the Rams but he is also one of my all time favorite QBs. He was likable and easy to root for being that his journey with the rags to riches story. I rooted for him hard when the Cards made that SB in 2008. I know some older Falcons fans who are cool and I get along with them, not much trash talk and we've been to games. But then again, they're older and come from our generation, we're mostly chilled out now and not rowdy anymore. Talking football with older Falcons fans is pretty funny though cause they hate those old 49ers teams as much as we do. They really caught a break in 1998 by getting ahead of the Niners in the twilight of their dynasty and yet even in that year, the Falcons had to win 14 games to get the division. One bad memory I have of Atlanta back in the day was seeing Morten Andersen go there and I don't have the time this morning to pull up the game, but I know there is one game where he kicked multiple 40-50 yard kicks on us which was like daggers going into the heart. Hated seeing him in a Falcons uniform making those clutch long distance kicks. I STILL haven't fully embraced Morten Anderson back into the Who Dat Nation. Or Bobby Hebert for that matter. LOL
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CHA_CHING 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: Mobile, AL Posts: 1,159	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" Originally Posted by 44Champs I STILL haven't fully embraced Morten Anderson back into the Who Dat Nation. Or Bobby Hebert for that matter. LOL Herbert is hands down the most overrated Saints player in our franchise history IMO. The biggest weakness of the Mora/Dome Patrol teams was that they had the historical equivalent of Blake Bortles at QB. He still won a lot of games due to that defense but that didn't make him great. The NFC was tough back then and the NFCCG was the real SB. It wasn't like the AFC where the 2000 Ravens with Dilfer got to go through crappy teams. Every team that ever beat us in the playoffs and the 49ers knew damn well that Herbert was our biggest weakness and as long as you brought pressure on him and could force him to throw INTs, all you had to do was not turn the ball over against our defense, and they could grind out a hard fought win. I have never understood fans that defend Herbert. He was so bad that we pretty much got screwed by Jimmy Johnson and Dallas trading a draft pick for Steve Walsh who was an even worse QB than Herbert. Herbert saved his WORST games for the playoffs. We were on route to putting the Falcons in a hole in the 1991 game. Up 10-0, he throws a pick right to Sanders in the endzone. We could've been up 17-0 and had them buried. That one play changed that entire game. Then the 1992 game, he just stunk it up so bad, even though we had a 20-7 lead early in that game. The two best years of the Dome Patrol were wasted on him being the QB. What drove me nuts was seeing him go to Atlanta and have his only pro bowl season and put up decent numbers in the Run-N-Shoot offense for one year. But even that season really wasn't all that great or they wouldn't have been willing to move on to Jeff George.

11-08-2019, 06:23 AM	#28
SaintGup 500th Post Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: London, England Posts: 580	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" Originally Posted by CHA_CHING I used to believe this but I think in the past decade, we've really witnessed the height of the Saints/Falcons rivalry. The previous height was 1991, the only time back in the day that both teams made the playoffs and that 1991 playoff loss is still for me, the most heartbreaking of all playoff losses. I will never forget back then. I was so young and when Michael Haynes made that long TD run, I felt like my heart was going to burst out of my chest. I don't even think the Falcons were the most hated of our rivals back in the 80's and 90's, it was the 49ers. Those of us who grew up back then hated them with a burning passion with most of us older fans still hating them. Older Falcons fans talk about the 49ers in the same way we do. They were just like us; always having to deal with that Goliath in their path any time their team had a winning season. The 1998 Falcons really caught a huge break by having their winning season in a year where the Niners dynasty was finally in it's twilight and burning out. We didn't get that lucky in the early 90s since the Niners were able to pick up where they left off after installing Steve Young as the starting QB. It didn't matter that we were 12-4 in 1992, we couldn't even win the division cause the Niners had to go 14-2 that year. . Actually, we went 12-3 and the 49ers went 13-2. We rattled off 9 straight wins and lost to the Vikings.

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11-08-2019, 09:02 PM	#30
CHA_CHING 1000 Posts + Join Date: Jan 2019 Location: Mobile, AL Posts: 1,159	Re: "sad thing is they are going in dry on us sunday" Originally Posted by SaintGup Actually, we went 12-3 and the 49ers went 13-2. We rattled off 9 straight wins and lost to the Vikings. That was 1987, not 1992.