Consistent winning football was still a pretty new thing in the New Orleans of the early 1990s. It took the arrival of Jim Mora to finally put the Saints into the playoffs for the first time in 1987. They made it back in 1990, with two winning seasons in between. In 1991, the franchise won […]
Jim Mora arrived in New Orleans in 1986 as head coach for a team that never even made the playoffs. By 1987, Mora put the Saints into the postseason. From 1988-90, his teams went 27-21 and made another playoff trip. The 1991 New Orleans Saints took the next step and won the first division title […]
The city of New Orleans got an NFL franchise in 1967 and for two decades experienced what can be described as mediocrity—if you’re being nice. After twenty years they had never made the playoffs, not even had so much as a winning season. They’d only finished .500 twice. The 1987 New Orleans Saints ended all […]
The New Orleans Saints were a tortured franchise when head coach Sean Payton arrived in 2006. They had never made the Super Bowl, or even an NFC Championship Game. Off the field the problems were worse for their home city—the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 leveled the area and put a long rebuilding project ahead for the region.