We’re Saints fans, after all.
In 2000, Jim Haslett took a hapless, floundering Saints organization and overhauled it. The Ditka era ended miserably, with a 3-13 season in 1999, the year Ditka inexplicably gave up the entire draft for Ricky Williams. We’ve always felt worse for Ricky than we did for Ditka. There was no way he could ever live up to that.
Haslett’s 2000 team opened 1-3 before going on a six-game winning streak, winning nine of the last 12 games. We went from a point differential of -174 (worst in Saints history) to +49 in one season.