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Worst Ever Saints Season
Posted on 11/14/18 at 10:44 am
Posted on 11/14/18 at 10:44 am
With the current run that we're seeing with the Saints, it makes me recollect and appreciate what we currently have with this team. I look back at some of the really bad years that we've had (and there were MANY), and I just look at how far we have come as a franchise whether it's the Super Bowl win in 2009 or the playoff runs since 2006. Outside of the three 7-9 seasons from 2014-2016, this is definitely the Golden Age of Saints football.
With that being said, I was thinking about times where things weren't so spiffy. In your opinion, what were the worst years that you remember experiencing as a Saints fan?
Here are a few of mine:
1980- I wasn't born yet, but this goes without saying.......1-15
1996 (3-13)- Mora resigns in the middle of season after starting 2-6 and Rick Venturi takes over as interim coach; I also remember the Superdome being half empty for most home games(I believe announced attendance for one game was ~26,000).
2005- Katrina.....3-13
1999- Blown out just about every game and started four different quarterbacks; gave the Cleveland Browns their first win back on a Hail Mary; Ditka gets fired at the end of this season
With that being said, I was thinking about times where things weren't so spiffy. In your opinion, what were the worst years that you remember experiencing as a Saints fan?
Here are a few of mine:
1980- I wasn't born yet, but this goes without saying.......1-15
1996 (3-13)- Mora resigns in the middle of season after starting 2-6 and Rick Venturi takes over as interim coach; I also remember the Superdome being half empty for most home games(I believe announced attendance for one game was ~26,000).
2005- Katrina.....3-13
1999- Blown out just about every game and started four different quarterbacks; gave the Cleveland Browns their first win back on a Hail Mary; Ditka gets fired at the end of this season
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Posted on 11/14/18 at 10:52 am to Cajunese
1999 was a heap of shite. I was legit angry after that Browns game. I told my step dad that I wasn't sure if I wanted to ever come to another game ever again. I felt differently the very next day but man alive I was 38 hot walking out of the Dome that day.
This post was edited on 11/14/18 at 10:53 am
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:01 am to LooseCannon22282
What's funny about the 1999 Browns game was the fact that the lead kept changing all day, and I was already mad at the fact that we were even keeping them in the game. Then, Doug Brien kicks a field goal with :15 seconds left to take the lead; and I felt relieved thinking that we escaped a close one. Then, Tim Couch launches one into the air with no time left. I was 10 years old at the time and remember walking out of the dome with my parents trying to hold everything in to not cry.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:02 am to Cajunese
Not the worst, but 2012 has to be mentioned.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:24 am to LSUlefty
2012 was terrible just because it was a wasted prime brees season...especially after how amazing the 2011 squad was.
2005 felt like it might have been the last time we saw the Saints play in Louisiana at the time and with Deuce tearing his ACL early...man that year sucked
But 1999 gets me. Thought there was no way we would be worse than the 6-10 team the year before and we started 3-0 in 1998...then when we won week 1 in 1999...damn so many people were pumped...then we didn't win again for what 8 or 9 weeks
2005 felt like it might have been the last time we saw the Saints play in Louisiana at the time and with Deuce tearing his ACL early...man that year sucked
But 1999 gets me. Thought there was no way we would be worse than the 6-10 team the year before and we started 3-0 in 1998...then when we won week 1 in 1999...damn so many people were pumped...then we didn't win again for what 8 or 9 weeks
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:26 am to Cajunese
I have been going since day one so I can speak with some authority. 1980 was the worst. Of course the Katrina year was terrible but that was a completely different story.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:40 am to Cajunese
2002 I think. We started 6-2 and ended up 8-8. Not the worst season ever but very disappointing
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:49 am to Tigerfan53
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2002 I think. We started 6-2 and ended up 8-8. Not the worst season ever but very disappointing
That was a disappointing season to say the least. We started the season 6-2, and finished 9-7 with three straight losses to teams all in last place in their divisions, which included a 1-13 Cincinnati team. This was also the year a stubborn Haslett played an injured Aaron Brooks over a healthy Jake Delhomme. After that season, I lost a lot of faith in Jim Haslett.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 11:51 am to Tigerfan53
quote:2002 was bad for me as well. Started 7-2 and finished 9-7, losing the last 3 games when only 1 victory had us in the Playoffs
2002 I think. We started 6-2 and ended up 8-8. Not the worst season ever but very disappointing
(9-6-1 Falcons made it as the 6th seed
) Was at the Vikings and Panther games. That team just couldn't finish games.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:00 pm to XCLSU
1977 is underrated. 3-11. Lost to 0-26 Tampa Bay 33-14 with three defensive touchdowns. Hank Stram was fired at the end of the season after two years.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:08 pm to lsutigers1992
1970 might have objectively been the worst, but I was too young to remember it. 2-11-1. One of those wins was the Tom Dempsey game.
They were +5 in their 2 wins and 1 tie. -170 in their 11 losses. Their average loss was by 16 points.
They were +5 in their 2 wins and 1 tie. -170 in their 11 losses. Their average loss was by 16 points.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:11 pm to Cajunese
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1980- I wasn't born yet, but this goes without saying.......1-15
1996 (3-13)- Mora resigns in the middle of season after starting 2-6 and Rick Venturi takes over as interim coach; I also remember the Superdome being half empty for most home games(I believe announced attendance for one game was ~26,000).
2005- Katrina.....3-13
1999- Blown out just about every game and started four different quarterbacks; gave the Cleveland Browns their first win back on a Hail Mary; Ditka gets fired at the end of this season
i saw every one of those season. although 1980 was terrible record wise it was not surpising since we sucked for so long already. mora lost control in 96 but that was not worst. i'd say watching 2005 was the worst for me.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:33 pm to Cajunese
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What's funny about the 1999 Browns game was the fact that the lead kept changing all day, and I was already mad at the fact that we were even keeping them in the game.
I thought we had been ahead the whole time until the very end. I was 17 then so I maybe not be remembering right.
either way i didn't have a good time on the way home
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:36 pm to Cajunese
aint tryin to hear that shite. positive vibes only. I aint tryin to remember no rick venturi
dafuqouttahere with that
dafuqouttahere with that
Posted on 11/14/18 at 12:47 pm to Cajunese
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That was a disappointing season to say the least. We started the season 6-2, and finished 9-7 with three straight losses to teams all in last place in their divisions, which included a 1-13 Cincinnati team. This was also the year a stubborn Haslett played an injured Aaron Brooks over a healthy Jake Delhomme. After that season, I lost a lot of faith in Jim Haslett.
2002. I was at the last game of the season vs the Panthers. The crowd was chanting "we want jake" VERY loudly (Aaron Brooks was sucking). I'm pretty sure all The Saints had to do was win that game and they were in the Playoffs. Saints lost, missed the playoffs and Jake went to the Panthers. Very next season Jake leads the Panthers to the SuperBowl. Classic Saints.
just looked it up...Saints lost that game 6-10
This post was edited on 11/14/18 at 12:50 pm
Posted on 11/14/18 at 1:16 pm to Cajunese
The worst season for me is 2011.
As to the worst Saint team?
1980
As to the worst Saint team?
1980
Posted on 11/14/18 at 1:24 pm to Cajunese
The season of the bags... 1980 bar none, after coming from a promising '79 season of 8-8, they sucked.. Cocaine killed that team..... I lived through it as a high school student...
This post was edited on 11/14/18 at 1:27 pm
Posted on 11/14/18 at 1:25 pm to Cajunese
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1999- Blown out just about every game and started four different quarterbacks; gave the Cleveland Browns their first win back on a Hail Mary; Ditka gets fired at the end of this season
^^^
Posted on 11/14/18 at 1:33 pm to Fat Bastard
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although 1980 was terrible record wise it was not surpising since we sucked for so long already
They were 7-9 in 1978 and 8-8 in 1979. The Saints were believed to be a possible playoff team when 1980 began.
They should have swept the 49ers that year and there were another couple of games they flat-out blew. They didn't play as bad as some historically bad Saints teams with better records.
One word describes what happened in 1980: cocaine.
Posted on 11/14/18 at 1:34 pm to Cajunese
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(I believe announced attendance for one game was ~26,000).
Against the Rams. My very first Saints game.
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