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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.
He campaigned for Mike Ditka to get the head coaching job after Jim Mora left. 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.
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." [20]
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 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 ...
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 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.