Discussing if the Saints Will Ever Win Another Super Bowl (1 Viewer)

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At this point, I would settle for just getting back into the playoffs....SB? I highly doubt it but you never know.....
 
I remember watching the Steve Smith lead Panthers in the playoffs in a night game wishing I knew what that felt like as a Saints fan. The Panthers were incredible but they never got the ring. Us getting the ring in the 09 season was the single greatest sports moment of my life. A second can never TOP that feeling but it can dayum sure come close. I hope to see it again. I don't think it will happen again in the foreseeable future but I REALLY hope it does.

Imagine the pain of the following fanbases who've never been to that mountaintop: Atlanta, Buffalo, Carolina, Jacksonville, Minnesota and whomever else. I think Atlanta's pain might be the most acute because of 28-3 but there's an argument to be made for Minny being 0-4 and also losing to ATL in the NFCCG when they had one of the greatest offenses ever, and Buffalo for going to four straight Super Bowls and going 0-4. At least we've done it.
 
The Saints will win the SB again
SaintsFanInLA said:
I remember watching the Steve Smith lead Panthers in the playoffs in a night game wishing I knew what that felt like as a Saints fan. The Panthers were incredible but they never got the ring. Us getting the ring in the 09 season was the single greatest sports moment of my life. A second can never TOP that feeling but it can dayum sure come close. I hope to see it again. I don't think it will happen again in the foreseeable future but I REALLY hope it does.

Imagine the pain of the following fanbases who've never been to that mountaintop: Atlanta, Buffalo, Carolina, Jacksonville, Minnesota and whomever else. I think Atlanta's pain might be the most acute because of 28-3 but there's an argument to be made for Minny being 0-4 and also losing to ATL in the NFCCG when they had one of the greatest offenses ever, and Buffalo for going to four straight Super Bowls and going 0-4. At least we've done it.
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No sympathy for Minn or Buffalo. They've been to the big dance four times. The Saints have had only one opportunity and made the most of it.
 
SaintsFanInLA said:
I remember watching the Steve Smith lead Panthers in the playoffs in a night game wishing I knew what that felt like as a Saints fan. The Panthers were incredible but they never got the ring. Us getting the ring in the 09 season was the single greatest sports moment of my life. A second can never TOP that feeling but it can dayum sure come close. I hope to see it again. I don't think it will happen again in the foreseeable future but I REALLY hope it does.

Imagine the pain of the following fanbases who've never been to that mountaintop: Atlanta, Buffalo, Carolina, Jacksonville, Minnesota and whomever else. I think Atlanta's pain might be the most acute because of 28-3 but there's an argument to be made for Minny being 0-4 and also losing to ATL in the NFCCG when they had one of the greatest offenses ever, and Buffalo for going to four straight Super Bowls and going 0-4. At least we've done it.
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Out of those teams, Atlanta has it worse.
Say what you want about Buffalo, but making the Super Bowl four years is tough.

Atlanta, Carolina, and Jacksonville fall into a category where just regular success is elusive.
For all the hate Minnesota gets, they’ve at least been consistent contenders or competive.
 
Saint Jack said:
Out of those teams, Atlanta has it worse.
Say what you want about Buffalo, but making the Super Bowl four years is tough.

Atlanta, Carolina, and Jacksonville fall into a category where just regular success is elusive.
For all the hate Minnesota gets, they’ve at least been consistent contenders or competive.
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Try being Cleveland, Jack. They've won all those NFL championships pre-Super Bowl that today, don't really mean much or are categorized as "pre-history" by many NFL analysts, historians, and commentators/fans. If it was pre-66 AFL/NFL merger, it really doesn't have much intrinsic, meaningful historical value, which, to me, is one of the most idiotic, asinine illogical arguments that exists. The Browns have had a lot of great teams since the mid-60's but whether due to a combination of bad in-game coaching, often sheetty, inopportune luck or losing important post-season games on fluky, outrageous memorable, heartbreaking plays (Red Right 88, The Drive, The Fumble) plus Modell relocating the team to Baltimore, winning two SB's, and Cleveland essentially receiving a hollowed-out, expansion team and having to rebuild from the ground up. At least Buffalo, Minnesota and Atlanta can say they've been to a Super Bowl, the Browns can't claim that honor.

Minnesota Vikings of the late 60's/1970's were a very good team that didn't match up well against more powerful, better-talented, stronger AFC teams who had better depth, powerful running games and O-lines, particularly Miami and Oakland, that were like veritable fortresses that pushed, knocked around smaller, leaner Vikings "Purple People Eaters" D-linemen, who by 1976, knew this would likely be their last chance at winning a SB. Unlike Landry's Cowboys of the same era, Bud Grant's Vikings didnt really try to adapt or adopt some aspects of what the AFC teams plus Grant was a great HC but the NFC of the 1970's was a wasteland with only 3 teams that were really good: Dallas, Minnesota, and L.A. Rams and in pretty much all of those SB's, Grant got out-coached.

I think if Scott Norwood had make that 47-yard FG against Giants in Super Bowl XXV, we'd be viewing those early 90's Bills teams in a far more favorable, positive light because after that heartbreaking loss to NYG, while they made 3 more SB trips, their confidence, focus and self-image took a huge hit that affected them subconsciously that trickled down into how they played those other Super Bowls. I also have heard rumors that at least for the first two SB's, Buffalo came into the game maybe a little too over-confident.
 
Guess we will see just glad I was alive for the first.... still upset we didn't get another shot with Brees/Payton.....
My only concern is can we get there with Loomis.....
 
I never thought I would ever even be able to SAY the words Saints and Superbowl legitimately in the same sentence without someone putting me in a straight jacket….and it happened. Not only did we make it, we won it. The seal has been broken. The odds of it happening again now are better than what the odds were of it happening in the first place prior to it happening.
 

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