The only team to ever have an undefeated season was the 1972 Miami Dolphins. Since then many NFL teams have attempted to match this seemingly impossible achievement. Of those worth mentioning are the 1976 Oakland Raiders (13-1), the 1984 San Fransisco 49ers (13-1), the 1985 Chicago Bears (13-1), the 1988 Minnesota Vikings(15-1), the 2004 Pittsburgh Steelers (15-1), the 2007 New England Patriots(who actually did have an undefeated regular season and did not lose until the Super Bowl), the 2005 and 2009 Indianapolis Colts, and of course the 2009 New Orleans Saints.
So as you can see, measuring a teams greatness on whether or not they were able to complete a perfect season is not really a proper unit of measure. The Saints however have lost their past two games to what I would consider o be very lack luster teams. Because of this their is reason to question exactly what will happen to the Saints in the playoffs. They have showed a great deal of promise thus far but how could they suddenly lose their spark the way that they did? Was it all a fluke? Are they really as good as we thought they were? Is it some sort of a curse?
First of all the Dallas Cowboys may have not had the season that everyone thought they would have this year but they are still an exceptional football team and the fact that they beat the Saints should not have come as the biggest surprise to any real football fan. The loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers however is cause for some real concern for all Saints fan. With a record of (2-12) going into the game no one, (including me) would have ever thought that the Saints would lose this game.
So, have the Saints lost their fire? That remains to be seen. The one thing that any real football fan should already know and always remember is that any team could be better than the other on any given Sunday...
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