What’s your must obscure, random Saints fact? (1 Viewer)

[watts]

I’ll go first:

1) we once had an astronaut as a GM

 

[UFCSaint]

Jeff Groth wore number 86 and was from Bowling Green

 

[MSUSousaphone]

Onome Ojo

 

[watts]

One of the names for the franchise that was considered was the “Mud Bugs”.
Who dat say dey gonna beat them Mud Bugs!

 

[LetsGetWaffles]

Can he play safety?

 

[HouseCall]

Saints QB Ken Stabler was 38 when this picture was taken.

Drew Brees is 41.

 

[Poison]

Paul Hornung's greatest athletic contribution to the city after being signed to the Saints was probably taking on former coroner Frank Minyard in barefoot races up Bourbon Street.

 

[black_floyd]

Saints QB Ken Stabler was 38 when this picture was taken.

Decades or years?

 

[Rdanderson91]

We won Super Bowl 44 in our 44th year of existence while the 44th President was in office.

 

[HouseCall]

From 1987-1992, the Saints went 62-33 as a member of the NFC West.

During that time, the Saints won the NFC West only 1 time.

Remember that fact when someone asks how much it sucked to be in the same division as a dynasty 49ers team.

 

[watts]

Paul Hornung's greatest athletic contribution to the city after being signed to the Saints was probably taking on former coroner Frank Minyard in barefoot races up Bourbon Street.

You have won. So far

 

[HouseCall]

2-time Super Bowl winner and Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson’s first game as an NFL head coach was a shutout loss (28-0) to the Saints.

 

[watts]

The New Orleans Saints once played a game in the same stadium that Babe Ruth did.

 

[HouseCall]

Of the Saints 12 playoff losses, only two of the teams they lost to managed to win their next postseason game:

1987 Vikings and the 2013 Seahawks - with only the Seahawks winning the Super Bowl.

All the others were eliminated the very next game.

 

[Outbackjack]

These are outstanding.
Please keep them coming.
I wish I had one....my only thing was living on Lake Trail Drive in Kenner growing up......a few houses down from Tom Dempsey.....

 

[Icon]

Unless Drew plans on playing through 2024, the Broncos will go down as the only team in the NFL that he never defeated as a member of the Saints.