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Wild Card Weekend Game Preview: Lions at New Orleans Saints

Found January 05, 2012 on Leelanau Sports Guy's World:
PLAYERS: Sean Payton,  Drew Brees,  Matthew Stafford,  Ndamukong Suh,  Pierre Thomas,  Chris Ivory,  Reggie Bush,  Julius Jones,  Heath Evans,  Mark Ingram,  Darren Sproles,  Eric Olsen,  Nate Bussey,  Will Herring,  Andy Tanner,  Sean Canfield,  Calvin Johnson,  Aaron Berry,  Louis Delmas,  Nick Fairley,  Chris Harris,  Chris Houston,  Alphonso Smith,  Kevin Smith,  Cliff Avril,  Corey Williams,  Willie Young,  Jonathan Casillas,  John Gilmore,  Lance Moore,  Jonathan Vilma,  Jonathan Amaya,  Malcolm Jenkins,  Robert Meachem
TEAMS: New Orleans Saints,  Houston Texans,  Detroit Lions,  Seattle Seahawks,  Miami Dolphins,  Tampa Bay Buccaneers,  New England Patriots,  San Diego Chargers

As hard as it might be to believe for the die hard Saints fan from way back when, many current fans of this team probably may not even remember more than a single losing season. Someone who started following the team 6 years ago in 2006, for instance, when Sean Payton first became Head Coach and Drew Brees became the starting quarterback, would be in that very category of such people. The Saints have gone 62-34 since Payton and Brees arrived in New Orleans, and that 64.6 winning percentage is tied for the 6th-best over that span. Even if a recently converted Saints fan goes back twice as long as that, to the start of the 2000 season, they would still only remember 3 out of 12 losing seasons for their favorite NFL team. But, truth be known, from the Saints‘ inaugural season in 1967 to as recently as the end of the 2005 campaign, New Orleans actually owned the third-lowest winning percentage in the NFL. At .403, they trailed only the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at .392 (established in 1976, ...
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