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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]
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.
Saints' infamous 1–15 season, fans wear paper bags to the game against the Rams on November 24, 1980, in New Orleans. First series matchup at Anaheim Stadium. The game in New Orleans was the last for Saints head coach Dick Nolan before he was fired. 1981: Saints 2–0: Saints 21–13: Saints 23–17: Rams 18–8 Saints' first sweep of the ...
Why they might be gone: The "Can't Guard Mike" of old is long gone as a No. 1 threat at wideout.He's now a $12.4 million scheduled hit against the cap in 2024. As for Kamara, again, the Saints are ...
The Saints still had Payton under contract when he wanted to come back, which meant some team was going to have to trade for him. There are moving pieces to the Payton trade, but the Broncos made ...
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.
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 ...
The Saints failed to improve on the previous season's record of 8–8, instead winning only one game. [1] The team missed the playoffs for the fourteenth consecutive season and had the dubious distinction not only of winning only a single game, but winning it by a single point against the New York Jets , who like the Saints had widely been ...