The Mike Ditka years in New Orleans, 1997-1999, was one of the darkest periods in the history of the Saints franchise. It wasn’t intended to be and it didn’t start out like that but it turned bad so quickly there wasn’t much chance for anyone to have mixed feelings about it.
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, Russell Erxleben, Bountygate and for the tenth edition of our series, Tom Benson.