What is your most favorite non playoff moment in SAINT history. (2 Viewers)

[SaintJ]

I think it's fair to the OP if we just assume that everybody's #1 is the Katrina homecoming and you treat it like a playoff game.

Mine? Let me put on my leather helmet: Tom Dempsey's field goal, for so many reasons.

 

[JustaSharkie]

The absolute clinic Coach Payton put on in Dallas with FB Mike Karney going off for a hat trick in that game. How the sports media, talking heads were saying the 8-4 Saints could not possibly win in Dallas against the 8-4 Cowboys.

The close second would have to be the Patriots game. Where I told a die-hard Pats fan, co-worker that the Saints would win the game and it "won't even be close" when he pressed me for my opinion on the coming game. He was stunned when I said that on Monday afternoon and speechless on Tuesday morning.

 

[bobad]

I'm very easy to please, so there's too many to mention.

 

[muddbug2]

The absolute clinic Coach Payton put in Dallas with FB Mike Karney going off for a hat trick in that game. How the sports media, talking heads were saying the 8-4 Saints could not possibly win in Dallas against the 8-4 Cowboys.

Just about to post this game.

Just a stunning defeat for Dallas, their fans went into total meltdown as it just crushed their season in prime time. Got to love it!

 

[LetsGetWaffles]

The OP stated his opinion and he is allowed to have it w/o ridicule.

Thanks Judge Judy, but you're wrong. This is a forum for Saints fans, not a court of law or city council. Anyone is allowed to ridicule any opinion they see fit.

 

[GR#58]

When Kyle Turly ripped the helmet of the Jets player on primetime

 

[GasBag]

Back to back kick returns returned for TD's by Tyrone Hughes.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Obviously aside from the reopening

I think it was'87 - we were already on our way to first playoff game and were playing Green Bay for final game of season
Just an overall great vibe and epic after party
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Until the following week

 

[bobad]

Thanks Judge Judy, but you're wrong. This is a forum for Saints fans, not a court of law or city council. Anyone is allowed to ridicule any opinion they see fit.

Nothing wrong with ridiculing wrong-headed opinions, but I'm totally against ridiculing people.

 

[NeverGiveUP2]

Re-opening of the Dome and Gleason's block is my #1 of all time INCLUDING the NFCCG and the SB... But as an old-timer I'll add three from "back in the day"

1. John Gilliam returns the opening kick the first time a Saint ever touched the ball in a regular season game.. Remember we had gone 5-1 in pre-season (yes there were 6 appropriately named Exhibition Games back then)... this NFL thingy was going to be easy lol

2. Archie scores as time expires in his first game against the Rams - NOW this NFL thingy was going to be easy

3. Tom Dempsey's kick... by now we knew this NFL thingy was not going to be easy and we celebrated like we had won the Super Bowl

 

[DefKhan1]

Reopening of the Dome after Katrina. That whole game.
Gleason' blocked punt, the music, I remember watching it at Fox and Hound with friends I spent the Katrina aftermath with and there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
It was a huge symbol that things were going to be okay. The Saints were back in the Dome and maybe September had ended.

 

[St.Dan]

Just to offer up a game that's not already been mentioned....the regular season win on the road against the 49ers in 2000. Brooks led a comeback late and threw a laser to Willie Jackson late in the 4th to win it, 31-27.

Some others....the road win against the 49ers in 1987 when Morten hit the game-winner despite a stiff Bay Area wind to win 26-24....the 1988 shutout of the Broncos 42-0....same season, the 20-17 win over the Cowgirls when Morten hit a 50-yarder to win....going back even farther into my memory as a kid, the 1983 wins over the Bears (home) and Falcons (road), also Morten's game-winners. See a familiar pattern here with those?

 

[Saint Floyd]

If I'm not counting the obvious return to the Superdome, then one that really stands out to me is a game-winning kick by Morten Andersen to beat the seemingly dominant 49ers. I can't remember what year that was, but I'm betting about 1991 or 1992. Even though I was just a little tyke, it was pure bedlam. Nuts!

Edit to add: It was 1993. The link to the box score is below.

San Francisco 49ers at New Orleans Saints - September 26th, 1993 | Pro-Football-Reference.com

 

[Saint Floyd]

Back to back kick returns returned for TD's by Tyrone Hughes.

It really was nuts back then... it was almost like you didn't mind if the Saints gave up a field goal (never a touchdown) because you knew Hughes was going to get a shot to make something happen on the kickoff. He was truly spectacular, and he doesn't get enough credit in Saints lore.

 

[insidejob]

1. John Gilliam returns the opening kick the first time a Saint ever touched the ball in a regular season game.. Remember we had gone 5-1 in pre-season (yes there were 6 appropriately named Exhibition Games back then)... this NFL thingy was going to be easy lol

This one's my favorite too. I was there, even though I wasn't born yet, along with about 3.7 million other people lol.

In all seriousness though, mine is the same as guido's. My dad has never been a fan of going to the games since I've been alive, he'd prefer to watch at home. He told me that year that if the Saints made it to the playoffs that he'd take me to the game if it was here (I bet he thought he was slick!). I was only 6 years old, but I remember when the Saints beat the Packers in that final game of the season knowing that I was going to not only get to see the Saints play in person, I was going to get to see them beat the crap out of the 8-7 Vikings in the first ever playoff win. I mean, even a 6 year old knows that 12-3 is far superior to 8-7, so there's like no chance that the inferior team would go on the road in the playoffs and forever etch into my memory the score of 44-10 in what ended up being one of the most depressing moments of my short life. I was little and just didn't understand how they could lose, and lose SOOOOOOOOOO BAD. I was crushed.

The life of a Saints fan.