Well tomorrow is the 10 year anniversary of the Saints screw job

[Captain Obvious]

Fug Katrina and Fug the Saints.

Place needed cleaning anyway.

[Chaos]

I remember that game, it was total premeditated horse poo.  Then to top it all off we lost Kris Jenkins for the season to an acl tear.  Fug the Saints. 

[Lords0fPain]

What i do wonder, is what our ownership may or may not have known. I believe the coaching staff and players went out to win. However, if ownership was blinded sided (no pun intended with Oher), If he said ANYTHING, he would have been painted a villain.

 

Had been Jerry JONE'S team, well........lol.

 

[GRWatcher]

That game is one of the worst memories I have of a home game. I was there, the atmosphere was like a Saints home game. They were even selling beads in the concourse. The big hype was that the City of Charlotte had taken in so many from New Orleans. IIRC they were giving tickets away to those people that week so they could support their "hometown" team. In all the news stories leading up to that game, even the local media had forgotten that the Panthers were the true hometown team.

[RumHam]

Didn't Jake admit this game was fixed at one point?

[brandon_87]

Can't quote op on phone, but "costed" isn't a word. 

[Sean Payton's Vicodin]

i dont even remember that game

i got into football in 2006

[cookinwithgas]

oh yeah it was awful but my friend got this great pic

[h0llywood]

I would rather have a field of 1 Smith and 5 John does than just a field of John does like we have now. 

[frash.exe]

Honestly the Dallas game later on in that season was a bigger screwjob

[Mol3m4n]

The 49ers game still hurt worse. The refs were horrible. 

[Davidson Deac II]

Now I know, technically that game was a week one game. But if your a true Panther fan you have not forgotten badly we got bent over that day. Let's rewind shall we?

 

Katrina had just recently hit the dump known as New Orleans. People cried about it as the greatest national tragedy in our nations history. Sympathy for all things New Orleans was coming in loads and loads of dump trucks, including the poor Saints. Their week 1 opponent? The Carolina Panthers IN Carolina.

Now this year our Panthers were having the rare occasion of being one of the very best teams in the league (frankly, the best in the NFC). The saints, however, were easily gutter trash on the field. Absolutely horrible.

The refs, the whole game, totally favored the saints, helping them to make sure to have the inspirational win. This was never more apparent then right before the halftime. Not once, but TWICE OUR wide receivers apparently stepped out of bounds before catching a touchdown pass. First the legendary smitty (if you remember the year he had) and then the always technical and smart Rickey Proehl also stepped out. BOTH OF THEM IN A ROW. If you saw the plays, you remember that it was horse crap. The whole game was one giant screw job to honor the Saints.

The saints went on to earn the second pick in the draft and stink up the whole league. We went on to be 11-5. Now why was this such a screw job?

It was bad enough that we were screwed out of this game. But it also costed us a home game in the playoffs. So we had to go on the road against the Giants, Bears AND Seattle. That road gauntlet proved too difficult. Had we one home game, our guys would have been a little more rested, but if you remember the Seattle game, our guys were absolutely depleted and run down. We started dropping like flies. All because of that week one game. (Tampa somehow won the division.)

 

Now if you know me personally, you know I DESPISE blaming the refs and I really do not ever believe in this kind of thing EVER. But God help me if the refs were not swinging in favor for the Saints that game. My grandma and me both still remember and talk about it. I will never forget and NEVER FORGIVE this crap. Wins are earned not given.

 

I hope Jerry tells Ron that if we are winning 50-0 tomorrow with 1 second left in the game, throw it deep for the end zone and keep scoring.  100-0 win tomorrow would barely satisfy my bloodlust for a Saints loss.

 

Never forget.

 

http://www.nfl.com/gamecenter/2005091102/2005/REG1/saints@panthers#tab=recap&recap=fullstory

Being on the road wasn't the problem in Seattle.  The offense was very bad.  Delhomme had his worse game of his career up to that point, and we had no run game.  Seattle would have beat us on the road, at home, or in Timbuktu. 

[The NFL Shield At Midfield]

i got to see two games that year, that one and the bucs home game

lucky me

[Icege]