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Dan in Lafayette said

It's funny you should mention this. Back in the late 70's, the Saints were really bad. It was after either the '75 (2-12) or '80 season (1-15) that Bob Krieger (WWL, weekend sports) created a masterpiece. It was on Sunday night after the last game of the season. He spliced together all of the Saints' "lowlights" with no wording just Send in the Clowns being sung in the background. I'm pretty sure it was the Judy Collins rendition and not Frank Sinatra version. It was hilarious and extremely well done. The video took up most of the sports segment of the show as the whole song played.

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I dont remember that.. but i do remember, and I’ll never forget- after the last game of the 1983 season where the Rams’ Mike Lansford kicked the field goal to keep the Saints out of what would have been their first ever winning season, and their first ever playoff berth.. i was sitting in the Loge section behind the end zone where the kick was made.. and later that night i was watching the WWL Ch 4 sports (i dont think ’4th Down on Four’ had come into existence yet) and Chris Myers was the sports anchor.. he put together this package of all the Saints highlights and lowlights from that season, set to ‘Just Once’ by James Ingram, which was a hit song around that time.. it was the height of heartbreak for 9 yr old me, and that sequence, with that song, summed it up perfectly.. ive searched U tube periodically over the years but haven’t been able to find it.