Dec. 8, 2024.
It’d been almost a year since the New Orleans Saints last won a football game.
Three hundred days, to be exact, which probably felt like a lifetime for the players and coaches who’d suffered through the drought.
So when the Saints finally snapped the skid Sunday with a cathartic 26-14 victory over the New York Giants, they celebrated with understandable relief and unbridled joy.
Club Dub, as the Saints call their amplified, high-tech postgame locker room celebration, has christened more important wins over the years. But few victories have been relished as much as this one was in the Superdome.
“It’d been a while since we’ve had the fog (machine) and the music playing,” third-year safety Jordan Howden said. “I almost forgot how that was.”
The Saints need not apologize