What is your favorite NFL football team?

I can only do this "being a Cowboys fan" thing because I 1) love football with an absolute passion, 2) am inundated with Cowboys this and Cowboys that from July through January, and 3) there isn't college football on Sundays.

It also helped when the Boys drafted Bradie James and Marcus Spears. I wish Skyler could've made the team...

 

The Saints NEVER had a winning season during the first 20 years as an team (1967-1986), then we got Coach Mora, and we got pretty good. We didn't have a single losing season from 1987 to 1993, and we made it to the playoffs 4 times. Although we never won in the play-offs, the loss that was most heart-breaking to me was the 4th shot at the playoffs, when we lost to the Eagles.

One reason it was devastating was because you had to figure that since the third time wasn't the charm, then it had to be the fourth time that would be the time the Saints finally won a game in the playoffs (after the Saints lost to the Eagles, I started to believe that the Saints were cursed).

The other reason it was devastating was the dramatic fashion in which we lost the game. We were up 20-10 going into the 4th Quarter, then disaster struck. Cunningham passes for a TD, pulling the Eagles within 3 (Saints 20 Eagles 17). Then, on the very next offensive play by the Saints, Seth Joyner picks off Hebert and takes it back to the 6, setting up another TD by the Eagles, putting them in the lead 24-20. At this point, I am convinced that the Saints are going come back and answer, and instead, Reggie White sacks Hebert in the end zone for a safety. That memory of White standing up making the safety sign with his arms is the most painful memory I have regarding the Saints.

But still, you had to love those Saints teams of the late 80's and early 90's under Coach Mora -- Bobby Hebert, Dalton Hillard, Ironhead Heyward, Eric Martin... and off course, the vaulted Dome Patrol, 4 Pro-Bowl LBs -- Jackson, Swilling, Mills, and Johnson, probably the best LB corp ever assembled in NFL history.

When we decided to hire Ditka, I was not a fan of that decision, and that even was before his moronic decision to throw away all those draft picks just to get a solid RB prospect in Ricky Williams.

As for Coach Haslett and QB Aaron Brooks, I thought they did alright. They did give the Saints their first playoff victory (after 34 years in the league) by beating the defending Superbowl champions Rams, who were hyped as "the best show on turf." Brooks threw for 4 TDs in that game.

However, I've never been able to love a Saints team as much as I loved them in the late 80's and early 90's under Coach Mora... but I do think that the team that GM Mickey Loomis and Coach Payton are building is shaping up to be just as special as those Saints teams we had under Coach Mora.

 

So they got to you....should've resisted harder. :nope:

I was a much bigger NFL fan in the '70s and '80s. Since then I pretty much only watch Saints games (rare here in DFW), or the playoffs/SB. The NFL just doesn't seem to have that magic like CFB. You could put any college game on TV and I'm mesmerized.

I've always been a Saints fan, but in the late '70s and early '80s I was a huge Chargers fan. Had to have somebody to pull for during the playoffs, you know. Air Coryell, Dan Fouts, Wes Chandler, Kellen Winslow....a little defense would've been nice.

My Dad always believed that the Saints were mixed up with all the gamblers and mobsters in New Orleans. That's how he maintained his sanity from all the bizarre losses.

 

you mean when Bobby Hebert hit Eric Allen in the chest 3 times?
And the coaching staff was so impressed with Allen's D that they went out and got him as a free agent, only he wasn't all that good in New Orleans?

(not to be confused with that time Michael Haynes had a career day vs the Saints in the playoffs, then was signed by the Saints, and never lived up to the hype
or
when Az Hakim was with the Rams, and the Saints had no answer for him, so they got him as a free agent, never to really produce again)

 

LSU fan on saturday, Saints fan on sunday.
Sabanfan will be a saints fan this year because we're going to the superbowl.