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

[watts]

I’ll go first:

1) we once had an astronaut as a GM

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

My first season ticket in 1968 was a 10-game package (3 pre-season, 7 regular-season). Total cost: $15.00. That's $1.50 per game. You cant buy a single item in the Super Dome now for $1.50. It was part of a "youth ticket" program that carried into the first year of games in the Super Dome. The price went up slowly over time but not significantly.

And I truly was there for Dempsey's famous kick. My seats were about 20 rows up right behind the goalposts in the north endzone. I had a very good look at the ball as it inched over. Tulane Stadium went absolutely crazy.

 

[Saints123000]

The Saints have not been shut out since Week 17 of 2001. We lost to the 49ers 38-0.

 

[Optimus Prime]

The Saints have not been shut out since Week 17 of 2001. We lost to the 49ers 38-0.

19 years, that's impressive

is that a record?

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Before New Orleans had a team the NFL played an exhibition game here to see how it would work. They wanted to gauge turn out, infrastructure, things like that.

Black NFL players were turned away from hotels because they were still whites only and several were spit on and threatened in the streets.

The NFL said no way we would get a team. It’s literally a miracle we got one two years later.

It helped that Louisiana Senator Russell Long (Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee) and Louisiana Representative Hale Boggs (House Majority Whip) were on the job in D.C.

At that time the bill to merge the NFL and AFL was in congress. On its own, it would have to go through the Senate Judiciary Committee where it was unlikely to get out because it would have required an antitrust exemption which would have been opposed.

Hale Boggs came up with a plan and attached the merger bill to a tax bill heavily supported by LBJ. It included the antitrust exemption. Since it was primarily a tax bill, it would get routed to Long's Finance Committee, where he could steer it towards a vote.

Before the vote occurred, NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle told Boggs that he didn't know how to thank him for helping out the NFL-AFL merger. Boggs essentially told him New Orleans gets a franchise immediately. That's the deal. The bill passed and New Orleans got its franchise.

After that game, Rickey Jackson was in a car accident. The rumor was he “partied” a little too hard after the win. Doctors said he would miss 8 weeks of the season after surgery to his face. He was back in 2 weeks and played with his jaw wired and a special helmet and face mask.

And what a helmet it was. It accompanied him into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

We are the only NFL team to win & lose a game by the score of 62-7 (L-Falcons 1973; W-Colts 2011)

The Falcons were led that day by a journeyman QB named Dick Shiner.

 

[black_floyd]

Dick Shiner

Nice work if you can get it.

 

[Day1]

Shiner was Pittsburgh QB that Doug Atkins sacked on his last play in Tulane Stadium.

 

[Madmarsha]

The Falcons were led that day by a journeyman QB named Dick Shiner.

Some parents have zero awareness.

 

[smokey bear]

Quarterback Jim Everett Didn’t like being called Chris Everett

 

[Deuuuuce]

In 2003 the saints had the biggest roller coaster sequence in the history of football that i can remember...river city relay.

 

[Madmarsha]

In 2003 the saints had the biggest roller coaster sequence in the history of football that i can remember...river city relay.

I know exactly where I was.

 

[Swamprat]

Saints should certainly have the highest attendance of any SuperBowl victory parade ever...(maybe somebody can fact check this)..

.. And probably the ONLY team to ever do it in Mardi Gras floats!!!

 

[SouthRider]

Grover Klemmer's "inadvertent flag" stopped the clock from running out on the last play of the game, and the Falcons beat us on the added play on the first "hail Mary" pass, called "Big Ben".

The following year the exact same thing happened on an "inadvertent whistle", on "Big Ben Left".

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

The year that the Cowboys won their first Super Bowl, they lost to the Saints (4-8-2) during the regular season. The year the Saints won their first Super Bowl, they lost to the Cowboys (11-5) during the regular season.

 

[SoggyBottomBoy]

Has anyone mentioned the cannon misfiring in the endzone and injuring the crew? That was surreal.

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Has anyone mentioned the cannon misfiring in the endzone and injuring the crew? That was surreal.

You just did, but please add the details for those that haven't heard about it.

 

[HouseCall]

The 1990 Saints finished 8-8.

They never won more than 2 in a row.

They also never lost more than 2 in a row.

They scored 274 points.

They gave up 275 points.

They were a maddeningly average team.

However, they managed to beat the then 13-1 , defending 2-time Super Bowl champion 49ers in Candlestick.

They also made the playoffs.