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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.
The 1980 team lost fourteen games to start the year, and fans started to wear paper bags over their heads with "Aints" on it before one idea to respond to the team "laying an egg" saw the team building and Mecom's apartment bombarded with eggs for a week. [10] In late 1984, he announced that the team was up for sale.
The New Orleans Saints beat the Detroit Lions in the 2011 NFC wild-card playoff game 45–28. [50] New Orleans also tied the NFL's postseason mark for team first downs in a game (34), and broke the record for total yards with 626, eclipsing the yardage record set 49 years ago.
Super Bowl 59 is set for Sunday, Feb. 9. The New Orleans Saints also released a statement, offering support to the community. "New Orleans is a city built on resilience, and this heartbreaking ...
The New Orleans Saints and the NFL will donate $1 million to the victims of the Bourbon Street attack that killed 14 people on New Year's Day, the team announced on Saturday. "Our community has ...
The New Orleans Saints have pledged to donate $1 million to relief efforts for the ... but that did not stop fans from packing the house anyway. After the national anthem, chants of "USA ...
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 ...
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.