re: Legendary Saints kicker, Tom Dempsey, passes away

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The week before that Lions game we hosted the Rams, so that’s why you can tell the endzone had a blue background for the Rams and then they just painted over “RAMS” and changed it to “LIONS” as you can tell in that picture below.

I might do a deeper dive on this in a separate thread. If I owned the Saints I’d have lazy Doug Thornton fired and would renew the tradition of giving each opposing team a solid painted endzone in the Superdome

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that wasn't a Saints exclusive

from what I've read... back in those days that was the norm... every stadium was done up for the match-up in it that day... basically like it was a Super Bowl every week

that's obviously long-changed... but it is a somewhat interesting part of NFL history