We seriously hate to do it, but no history of the Saints franchise would be complete without discussing Bountygate. Our Saintstory series is meant to inform about the good and the bad. It’s about knowing your team. As bad as this period hurt the Saints, the resiliency of the team, the coaches, the owners is such that a new assault on the Lombardi Trophy was underway a mere five years later.
In our Saintstory series, we’ve told the tales of Marques Colston, Pierre Thomas, Jim Everett, La’Roi Glover, The Dome Patrol, Michael Lewis, Darren Sharper, Aaron Brooks and last week we took on the strange but true story of punter and huckster Russell Erxleben.