Pass the remoulade sauce and the Tony Chachere’s please – a little flavoring is nice when one eats one’s words. Happy to do so, though – the New Orleans Saints put together a performance that while difficult to stomach down the stretch, tasted divine in the end.
Per Saints play-by-play man Jim Henderson on WWL Radio during the broadcast of the game, 204 minutes had elapsed from the time the Saints last led the Seattle Seahawks until they took the lead again with 12:25 left in the game; a game they would eventually win 25-20. In the words of the late Sam Cooke in one of my favorite songs of all time, “It’s been a long time comin’, but I know a change gon’ come.