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Disgruntled fans called their team “the Aints”, going so far as to show up to games wearing brown paper bags over their heads after their team was 0–12 [3] and playing the Los Angeles Rams, to whom they lost 27–7 on Monday Night Football.
Buddy was the originator of the "Aints" in 1980 (and the paper bag over the head) as the team went 1–15 and also memorably characterized the despair of the typical Saints fan with the quip "When you go to Heaven after you die, tell St. Peter you're a Saints fan. He'll say, 'C'mon in, I don't care what else you done, you suffered enough.'" [1]
In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting local sportscaster Bernard "Buddy D" Diliberto to advise Saints supporters to wear paper bags over their heads at the team's home games; many bags rendered the club's name as the "'Aints" rather than the "Saints."
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There were visual cues of fans' displeasure, too. Paper bags. A stadium that emptied out. Some fans are displeased that Southern Miss (1-6, 0-3) has started a second consecutive season 1-6.
During each of Alvin Kamara's first four NFL seasons, the New Orleans Saints were a playoff team and even the NFC's top playoff seed during the dynamic running back's second year on the club. The ...
A local journalist and radio/TV personality, Buddy Diliberto, wore a paper grocery bag over his head to promote the brown bag special of Sonic, the Saints' sponsor at the time. Many fans took to wearing bags over their heads when attending games. The moniker "Aints" was also born due to the ineptitude of the 1980 Saints.
The Saints did not have their first winning season until 1987, their twenty-first season in the league. [11] That same season, the Saints made their first playoff appearance. [2] During the team's worst season in 1980 (in terms of win-loss percentage) the fans began to wear paper bags over their heads to games and started to call the team the ...