Boycott until Allen is removed
Many SRers apparently don’t remember the 1979 game against the Raiders where the Saints blew a 35-7 halftime lead and lost to the Raiders 43-35 on MNF … or the Nov. 26 1989 home game against the Rams when the Saints led 17-3 halftime lead only to lose 20-17 in OT as the Rams’ Flipper Anderson set a still-NFL record with 336 receiving yards … and yes, I was in the Dome for both of those games … the current Saints team has faced more injuries than any team I have seen in my nearly 61 years. … Calling for a boycott isn’t the answer. If you don’t want to go, good for you. But calling for a boycott thinking that will get you what you want is nothing more than throwing a tantrum.
Good try brother but the mindset of these posters won't be changed with logic. Most would still cry with a freshly powdered diaper and their favorited binkie.
When someone post nonsense like this they fall into the same boat as people who say they'll move out of the country if so in so gets elected. But they never do.
I was at both of those games. I was sitting in the endzone when Cliff Branch scored on a pass from Ken "The Snake" Stabler. The crowd was on cloud nine at halftime relishing in what appeared to be a prime-time Monday Night Football blowout beatdown on national tv by the Saints. Then the impossible happened. To be factually correct, the final score was 42-35.
The Rams game with Flipper Anderson going off was another mind-blowing event. He was only averaging like 3 receptions for 70 yards that season. In that game the Rams were without their #1 WR Henry Ellard. The Saints held Flipper to under 100 yards in the first half then had no answer for him in the 2nd half or in O.T.
Anybody whining about the state of the Saints today have no clue on the sorrows of the past. Every team will go through a rough patch. Real fans stay true.
The 1979 Saints team was probably the best unit the organization fielded to that point. Under Nolan in 1978 the Saints posted their best record ever going 7-9 then following that up in 1978 with an 8-8 record. Those two losses in 1979 were the difference in finishing 8-8 and having what could have been their 1st winning season and trip to the playoffs. Dick Nolan would have been immortalized as Head Coach for the Saints had that happened.
Instead, the Saints missed the playoffs for the 2nd year in a row under Nolan and then began the 1980 season 0-12 before getting fired.
A side note of interest on Nolan; He was thought of so highly by Dallas HC Tom Landry that Landry made Nolan the Cowboys Defensive Coordinator halfway through the 1962 season, making Nolan a player/coach. Imagine something like that happening in todays NFL.