“HAKIM DROPS THE BALL! HAKIM DROPS THE BALL!!” We all remember how the book of the 2000 Saints Season ended, the iconic 870 AM call of Jim Henderson poetically testifying at the top of his lungs that “THERE’S A GOD AFTER ALL!” and – for many of us – we remember exactly where we were for the franchise’s first ever playoff win against “The Greatest Show on Turf”.

In this episode we of course relive our own memories of that euphoric moment, but we also look back at the season as a whole. Did the turn of the century Saints team represent a turn of the corner for the overall fortunes and future of the franchise? In that pre-Payton/Brees era, far enough separated from the glory days of the Dome Patrol, thoughts of entering the 2000s with a legitimate winning team, much less a winning record, seemed to be wishful thinking at best - and talk of a ...