America’s Team? It’s the Saints Now

by Terence Moore

Filed under: Saints, NFC South

NEW ORLEANS — Go ahead, because this is the right thing to do: You should spend the rest of the NFL season hugging whatever team you traditionally love, but you should kiss the New Orleans Saints in the shadows.

If you prefer to do so in the sunshine, that’s fine, too.

The Saints have replaced the folks with stars on their helmets as America’s Team. In case you weren’t paying attention, Hurricane Katrina blew this franchise into the hearts of all those who had them. That unofficially happened on Sept. 25, 2006, the team’s first home game back in New Orleans — a Monday night when, just like this Monday night, the roof of the Superdome threatened to explode because of the noise generated by inside, as opposed to the wind outside it.

A game that was also against the Falcons. And that, too, was a victory for the Saints, along the way to their first and only NFC championship game.

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