Your tears are delicious

[Cary Kollins]

As epically disappointing as this season has been, yesterday's historic curb-stomping is about as sweet as it gets. 

 

Let's not downplay how great yesterday's win is in a single game context. 

 

Take it from the Saints beat writer:

 

 

 

The New Orleans Saints have lost their share of games over the years, but they've rarely lost their gumption or their self-respect or their unity.

 

They lost all three in a 41-10 loss to the Carolina Panthers on Sunday in a performance that was as embarrassing as it was shocking.

 

Considering the stakes and the opponent, it was unquestionably the worst performance of the Sean Payton-Drew Brees era. In my 15 years of covering the team, the only comparable stinker was the 2001 regular-season finale against San Francisco, an infamous 38-0 whitewash that prompted Terrell Owens to say the Saints played like a team that had its bags packed.

 

But those Saints were playing out the string. Their effort -- or lack thereof -- was at least understandable.

 

No, this performance was so ugly and pathetic it reminded longtime Saints fans of the grim Mike Ditka era, replete with the cascade of boos and beer cans from the stadium rafters.

 

Remember Mike Tyson pathetically fumbling around on the canvas looking for his mouthpiece after Buster Douglas decked him? That's what the Saints looked like Sunday. A once-proud champion, bloodied and bewildered, desperately looking for the corner or a white towel.http://www.nola.com/saints/index.ssf/2014/12/saints_loss_to_panthers_inexpl.html#incart_story_package

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cary Kollins]

"We obviously still have a lot of maturing to do," Brees said. "Maybe we just need to be more professional."

 

 

Who dat need to be more professional?

[frash.exe]

Lol at the mike tyson reference

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

the front page article at nfl.com is one titled "no more super saints" lol

[SCP]

Woooooo! So satisfying!

[KJ89]

[chknwing]

[The Huddler]

Our season has sucked, and it may very well continue to suck..

But what we did ton the saints and what this means for them makes my season

[top dawg]

Brown paper bags buried in landfills---long forgotten---have finally gotten their vindication.  

 

Full gone trees that will soon be chopped down and hurried along to the paper mills are near the end of their reincarnation.

 

But somewhere, some sapling is dreaming of the day when it will help grace the faces of the Superdome.

 

Cry those tears, Saints fan.

 

Water the ground to start this circle of your life.

 

 

[UKPanther94]

The Saint's regressions even worse than ours, everyone expected us to take a step back (obviously not quite as bad as we have been but still) but the media was busy pencilling the Saints in as possible superbowl contenders this season and the beatdown yesterday really puts the tin hat on it

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

the saints are paying out a lot of money to suck right now whereas the panthers aren't

 

that's a significant distinction

[ThPantherFan]

It was a nice win. The saints aren't a slouch team. We won fair and square on talent.

[Semaj]

the front page article at nfl.com is one titled "no more super saints" lol

Something about losing to a team that the media views as the CaroLOLina Panthers, and the way they did, has completely destroyed their reputation. I don't care if we win anymore games but glad that we embarrassed this trashy organization.

[beastson]

Its really not that bad, we've been blown out the most times this year of any NFL team. So it was just right we blow out somebody for once.