Because I remember Decembers in the 70s

SAINT BIGAL said
Those 70's teams were terrible but I watched anyway because I loved my Saints. Well, I watched the games that weren't blacked out. :rolleyes: It was all I knew.

Presently, I have no expectations for this team. It is what it is.

For younger members here, blacked out didn't mean wearing all black to the games. This was an era when TV had an agreement with the NFL to not show local games if they weren't sellouts. As much as Saints fans have supported the Black and Gold, there were times that the Saints didn't sellout their home games in the 60s and 70s when they played in the old Tulane stadium, which held about 90,000, before beginning play in the Superdome in 1975, which holds about 70,000. There were also times that the Saints didn't sellout their home games in the Superdome. Winning a Super Bowl changed that forever.

Optimistic Ozzy said
My grandmother raised me from age 10 until I graduated high school. We had this long winded preacher who didn't know when to stop. It would aggravate me to no end when he ran past 12 noon. After all, I had to get home in time to see the start of the 2nd quarter and just how far behind we were. Always had a glimmer of hope, but it wasn't realistic to think we would win. Those were the days.

And again, to enlighten the younger generation of Saints fans here, cable TV wasn't a thing yet in the 60s and 70s. If you missed any part of the broadcast, there wasn't a method in which you could pause or record the game to view at a later time. It wasn't until the early 80s that the VCR became a common household item that allowed you to "tape" the game so that you could watch it at a later time. The technology today at our fingertips on our cell phones and throughout the many ways programming can be viewed on TV is lightyears ahead of days past. Not to mention the quality of the picture we view today.

I'm with you Ozzy. In the late 60s I would watch the clock in anticipation of getting out of church and would try to hustle my parents to the car without any mingling. I made sure to have the radio in the car tuned into the game as soon as it started. My dad would always treat the family to the local malt stand for lunch after church before going home. I was always begging to go home to eat instead of eating in the car. I could hardly wait to turn the TV on.