Great Dane
He who dares wins
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Drafted a punter in the first round (Exlerben) - sorry if already taken
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First NFL team in history to have a Great Dane on their team!
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First NFL team in history to have a Great Dane on their team!
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No, I didn't think it was but we Saints fans like to glory in our misery.That was not my intent! But still hopefully a fun diversion.
The Saints are the only team in NFL history to play a HOME game in their opponents stadium (New York Giants)
Has anyone mentioned the cannon misfiring in the endzone and injuring the crew? That was surreal.
You just did, but please add the details for those that haven't heard about it.
It was All Saints Day, Nov. 1, 1970, and the Saints were in the middle of losing a game, 30-17, to the Rams. The halftime show at Tulane Stadium featured a reenactment of the Battle of New Orleans. A cannon backfired, blowing three fingers off one of the pseudo-soldiers.
The next day, head coach Tom Fears was fired. Trainer Warren Ariail called it, "the greatest injustice since the Rape of Nanking." Ask the guy who lost his fingers how he felt about it.
Naturally, you'd expect some great pre-game and halftime entertainment from party city. Before the Saints' first-ever game at Tulane Stadium in 1967, they were supposed to launch a balloon with legendary trumpeter Al Hirt playing, "Up, Up and Away" to symbolize the birth of the franchise. The balloon, however, never made it to "Up" because a worker mistakenly put a hole in it. "I went through 10 choruses and that son of a gun still hadn't been pumped up," Hirt told the Times-Picayune. "I almost got a hernia." It was prophetic, to say the least.
In February 2009, I had a Browns fan -- A BROWNS FAN -- mock us when we told him we were Saints fans.No, I didn't think it was but we Saints fans like to glory in our misery.
"You think your team sucks/sucked? Well I've been a Saints fan since day one, and let me tell you about suck..."
In February 2009, I had a Browns fan -- A BROWNS FAN -- mock us when we told him we were Saints fans.
Been here since day one. Those early years were very difficult for a young boy but turned me into the raving lunatic I am today at kickoff. My kids are the same and of course learned to curse on Sundays.Which is hardly a unique or obscure thing among Saints fans.
No but, clearly, we remember it well if we'd ever run into him again!Did you track the fan down in February 2010 to gloat?
Win or lose, Saints fans always loved their Saints!
And won the NFC championship 4 minutes and 44 seconds into overtime winning the Superbowl 44 days after Christmas. Crazy huh?We won Super Bowl 44 in our 44th year of existence while the 44th President was in office.
It was Ernie Wheelwright, but who's counting?Man thanks for posting that. Great memories of how things used to be. Horrible, heartbreaking but man so much fun and hope. That's when I caught the fever that has never let up. Doug Atkins,,,, Billy Kilmer,,,,, Obert Logan,,,, Ernie Wheelhouse.... Steve Stonebreaker..... Al Hirt blowing his horn and bellowing GO SAINTS GO....
We didn't win.... We didn't care
Brees vs Miami in 2009. 2 rushing TDTaysom Hill was the first Saints QB to run for two TD’s in the same game the in the last 49 years. Archie Manning did it.