There’s one upside to not being in the playoffs: you don’t get your heart broken in crucial games by your defense allowing 61-yard touchdown catches with seconds left.
That, of course, is what happened to the New Orleans Saints yesterday. They’d almost completed an epic comeback in the second half, after embarrassing themselves in the first half against the Minnesota Vikings. And then somehow their much-improved defense did what no defense should ever do: allow a long touchdown when the game is on the line.
It was heartbreaking for Saints fans, and highly amusing to me.