The Saints have had a history of losing. Aside from some anomalous years in the Jim Mora and Sean Payton eras and even an improbable Super Bowl win, there have been many more years of the Black and Gold being the “Aints” rather than the Saints.
In the late 1970s, the Saints were so bad that the fanbase started a trend that has endured in the NFL and even in other sporting leagues and college athletics. That trend was fans coming to games with paper bags over their heads, eye holes and mouth holes cut out, sometimes blinged up and with some statement of futility scrawled in magic marker or painted on a bag.