For the first two decades of Saints football, they won an average of 4.5 games per season. That all changed in 1987, and culminated in a Week 12 victory over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, who at the time were not the division rival they are today. This win in the Superdome was the Saints ninth of the season, doubling their season average with three weeks left in the season.
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The New Orleans Saints entered this game on a five game winning streak which put them well ahead in the wild card race and only one game behind the NFLs best team in the San Francisco 49ers for first place in the NFC West.