One of the first things I learned from my father about sports was the Saints’ penchant for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
The phrase, or something like it, should be on a T-shirt they could sell in Champions Square after games like the one Sunday. Blowing the unblowable game seems, despite the Super Bowl championship and the playoff appearances and divisional titles, still imbedded in the franchise’s DNA.
It was a classic come-from-ahead Saints loss, all right, this 34-28 overtime defeat. The fact it came against the lowly 1-6 Tennessee Titans — excuse me, the 2-6 Titans — the team that just fired its coach and whose rookie quarterback was limping back into action from a knee injury, only served to deepen the agony.