Death, taxes, and New Orleans heartbreak. The Saints and their paper bag-clad fan base are painfully familiar with trials and tribulations; adversity has afflicted the team in almost every season of recent years. The 2020 NFL season, however, is different – the relevant challenges each team faces are almost an equalizer. One that weighs heavily in New Orleans’ favor.
Longtime Saints fans are no strangers to an NFL season faced with unprecedented uncertainty. The team was completely displaced in 2005 after Hurricane Katrina, with the subsequent training and practices taking place in a San Antonio parking lot.