New Orleans Saints: An Emotional History

I wanted to be Danny Abramowicz when I was a kid. If I were a kid today, I'd want to be Marques Colston. Danny was Marques without any speed or size, but lots of heart, skill, and fight. What great players kids get to idolize today. What a long incoming dream it's been.

Saints fans, if you've got any game footage at all from years past, please convert it and put it on the intertubes. There's really very little QUALITY footage floating around. Even recent stuff is often grainy. (NFL Films is letting it all rot in their vaults, rather than opening up and giving back.)

There are so many plays and players I would like to have stuck in this vid, but couldn't. I can still see Conrad Dobler leading a sweep, limping, and wearing a monster cast on his arm, but only in my memory. And Iron Head in the playoffs failing to get a yard on a fourth-and-one against a single Falcon db. Bobby Hebert threading a TD to the only spot it could have been caught. Billy Kilmer going into the endzone, vertical but upside down. Doug Atkins shambling off the field after a loss in front of a kid (me) too shy to ask for an autograph or say, "Great game, Doug."

Anyway, I did what I could given the structure of another great song by Explosions in the Sky. This one's called The Only Moment We Were Alone, off a pretty good album called The Earth Is Not a Cold Dead Place. Wonderful band if you like instrumental rock. All sounds and sights belong to their originators.

Crank it loud.

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Sports

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• New Orleans Saints
• Super Bowl Champion
• Explosions in the Sky
• The Only Moment We Were Alone

[linkfan2015]

very good video. music adds so much effect. love it! btw, what is the name of this song?

[bitnola]

@linkfan2015 The Only Moment We Were Alone by Explosions in the Sky (see the description under the video. Very moving tunes from a band that only does instrumentals, no lyrics)

[pedrowolcott26]

We made it to the A list, Its our time, next year lets make history i'm happy to be alive at their best! WHO DAT!!!

[bitnola]

@pedrowolcott26 Amen, brother!

[doctorj2u2]

Shadows from my past. They weren't winners like our present day Saints,but I loved them with just as much passion. They were our lovable losers and I was SURE every game they just might win one. Thank you so much for posting this video.

[bitnola]

@doctorj2u2 I was always sure they had a chance too. Always tore me up when they lost. You'd see them play well for a game or two and wonder why they couldn't rise up to that level all the time. Too young to know why, then. So thankful now.

[saintdeathmonkey1]

There is no team in sports quite like the Saints good&bad

[MissMaddy881]

I love this!  WHO DAT!!!!! Thanks for sharing.

[FromThatOnePlace]

@jakeleo90

its not that a bunch of people just became saints fans because of the saints actually being good. I grew up in New Orleans and didn't really pay attention to football because it wasn't big in my family. When the hurricane hit everyone was looking for something to latch on to. I moved to Houston but I became of fan of the Saints since my freshmen high school year in 2006 because they were my only connection to home. I still live in Houston while i go to college but I love my Saints!

[jakeleo90]

And you also wonder what would've happened if Drew Brees had been accepted as quarterback for the dolphins.

[jakeleo90]

The Saints were always a threat because in all their years they never had a bad defense, just a bad offense, consequently most games ended with a score like 7-6. Even when we usually lost, it was not an exciting game. But the true saints fans were right there with them even then. A bunch of the fans only like us just now.