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By Scott Rabalais | The Advocate
ARLINGTON, Texas — Back in 2009, when the New Orleans Saints' epic season-opening 13-game winning streak finally fizzled out, the Dallas Cowboys were the ones to douse the flame.
“Who dat?” linebacker Bradie James mockingly asked in the Dallas locker room that night. “We dat!”
They left the AT&T Stadium roof open Thursday on a mild, clear night by late November standards in North Texas. Perhaps it was to invite the football gods to rain on the Saints’ parade, the team that with its 10-game winning streak had second-lined all the way to the top of the NFL.
The Cowboys needed no help from the elements. Once again, they alone were enough to deliver a slap of sobering late-season reality to the Saints with a 13-10 victory.
It is by no means a mortal blow to the Saints’ hopes of returning to the Super Bowl for the first time since that magical 2009 season. But it certainly punched a big hole in New Orleans’ overhyped cocoon of invincibility, knocking it down about 20 PSI. ...
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