If the Saints history actually meant anything in terms of affecting how they played today, then I don't think you can explain the Superbowl victory. 40 years of mediocrity and ineptitude, interspersed by brief periods of brilliance followed by let-down. That's not an apt description of the Brees/Payton era. Uneven and at times disappointing? Yes. But that's not the Saints of old.
And of course, my logic says nothing about erasing history. It just says that you can't use relatively ancient history as a means of predicting the future when the present is so fundamentally different from what we saw in the past.
And of course, my logic says nothing about erasing history. It just says that you can't use relatively ancient history as a means of predicting the future when the present is so fundamentally different from what we saw in the past.
