A High-Octane Superdome Comeback! (Rams vs. Saints, 2000 NFC Wild Card) 

Wow that is good to know. I had no idea that was why. That is very creative amd a differeny way to look at it.

Kevin Stewart how many concussions did he have

@Adrian Flores Well he had 3 interceptions, who knows

They also had an actual voodoo ceremony at midfield before the game. Saints were pulling out all of the stops that day. :)

RobdaVegasMailman yeah had snakes all that shit

This wasn’t a upset this year the rams went 10-6 this year the worst outta all their years

Losing Dick Vermeil was a huge blow to the franchise.

Or the Saints defense was an absolute dog that year. Put some respek on it

The first & only team to lead the in scoring and yards gained for 3 consecutive seasons!

Soufflé Samuel they did with snakes and shit

Your memory is correct. I was there to see it. There's a long held rumor that the Saints were cursed because the Superdome was built on the site of an old cemetery...which is partially true. The actual stadium isn't but the nearby parking garage on Girod Street is.

I love my city

@@RobdaVegasMailman they sold their soul to get that 2009 nfc championship victory, they'll be cursed until at least Peyton and everyone related to that game is gone, and mn wins a title

This was also their first ever post season victory in franchise history. Then got bombed on by Culpepper & the Viks the following week

Rams were 10-6 or 11-5 in 2000. In 2001 Rams 14-2.

@@madrecka Yeah Saints and the Rams were 10-6 in the 2000 season and due to tiebreakers, Saints won the division. They did beat them twice this season. The 1st time I believe Trent Green was QB for the Rams and the Saints beat them in St. Louis and of course they beat them in this playoff game. If Saints had a healthy Ricky Williams and Joe Horn, they would have made a deeper playoff run.

Didnt the Rams beat the Saints the week prior just to get into the playoffs?

@@aaronveegee yeah in the RS finale in NOLA... Faulk rushed for over 200yds in that game. The Saints were determined not to allow that to happen again the following week in the playoffs.

jyu467 then the next year they had the number one ranked defense after they hired Locke smith

What about them made them have such a terrible defense? Like they are a top 10 squad in both 99 and 01, but in '00 they are bottom feeders in defensive stats. I mean they bring in Aeneas Williams for 01 but that's enough for THAT big of a change?

@@unlimitedpower978 It was coaching. Dick Vermeil retired as head coach after the Rams won the Superbowl in 1999. Martz took over as head coach in 2000. Martz was an offensive genius but had no clue when it came to defense. The hiring of Lovie Smith as defensive coordinator in 2001 stabilized the defense.

@@unlimitedpower978 A lot of the '99 guys hit the wall hard in 2000. Rams D had a lot of veterans who had played pretty well in the preceding years (which ultimately didn't matter in their overall record in '97 and '98 because those teams were comically bad at quarterback and running back). Todd Lyght was a Pro Bowler in '99, unplayable in 2000. Mike Jones and D'Marco Farr also fell off pretty severely. Kevin Carter basically sulked his way through the year over his contract status. The team would have 8 new defensive starters in the 2001 season. Martz actually did quite a bit to stabilize the defense in the middle of the '00 season, coaxing Bud Carson out of retirement as a "consusltant," but it was basically a defacto firing of DC Peter Giunta - Carson would be calling the plays from the booth within a few weeks of his hiring. A part of the '99 team that doesn't get much notice was that they technically had co-defensive coordinators that year - John Bunting designed the blitz packages while Peter Giunta dealt with the coverage schemes and called the plays on gameday. Bunting left after the '99 season, and Giunta, left on his own, was calling almost exclusively soft zones during the first 7 games in 2000. Thus Martz coaxing Bud Carson back into coaching to basically replace Giunta in all but name only. That year's team had personnel problems that couldn't be fixed in season, but Carson did get a couple of decent defensive performances out of them in games they really needed to stay in the playoff hunt.

False it was 99 then 01

Sounds like the chiefs for rams vs chiefs earlier this season

2018 Tampa Bay Bucs

That Rams offense was absolutely no joke and the Saints were decimated by injuries. But that was the Saints first ever playoff win after years of seemingly cursed playoff luck. We even had a voodoo priestess do the halftime show of that game to try to lift the curse... If the saints lost that game after being up 31-7 with 10 minutes left...then the franchise may never have recovered.

@@slimischillin7753 And the Steelers who had 6 turnovers against the Browns in week 1 and still managed to not lose the game, though it did end in a tie

@@nolaabroad1514 Not only was it their first ever playoff win, but it was also head coach Jim Haslett's only playoff win which is pretty impressive because Marvin Lewis spent 16 years with Cincinnati (which is 10 more years than Haslett's tenure with the Saints) and finished 0-7 in the playoffs, and btw if the Saints lost this game I don't think that would've affected their future because Aaron Brooks would only have four more good seasons before getting benched and released after the 2005 season which is when they got Drew Brees and Sean Payton to become what they are today

Talk about underrated: how bout Cardinals-Panthers?

Rams-Buccaneers from 1999-2001 was pretty great too!

Rams vs Bucs has been a rivalry since the 1979 NFC Championship game.

Alfonso Fernandez ESPN and ABC are the same thing. ABC only has one game these days anyway. Fox did the WC Saturday night game this year

That was his achilles-heel weakness. Cost him his job.

@@Mattnova_116 I was working at Winn Dixie in New Orleans, night shift at the Seafood Department I was listening to the play by play on radio with Jim Henderson and Hookie Gajun. When the Saints were up 31-7 I felt secure we were going to win our first playoff game; then out of nowhere the "greatest show on turf" started plating and Kurt got so hot that I was really worried and sick to my stomach that the Saints would piss away a 24 point playoff lead at home.. This just goes to show how great that team was and if they don't turn the ball over they probably walk out of the dome with a win, even if they had 5 turnovers.

Yea man. He was solid. Not like he was a top 5 in the league kind of guy, but he was good and actually, digging into his stats, had loads of comeback, game-winning drives, at least by how pro-football-reference counts them. His 05 season was super bad and that sadly is how lots of Saints fans remember him.

@@unlimitedpower978 And the fans sleep on the fact that Brooks held many of the team passing records before Breeze. My feeling was always that Brooks had an injury in 03 or 04 after which he was not the same. Still Team Hall of Famer for this win if nothing else.

SmackBone who is Breeze??? never heard of him

I agree his passer rating of 78.6 earned him a Saints hall of fame spot!

He was pretty solid. He was just really bad in the 05 season, and sadly that's tainted people's memory of him.

@Adrian Flores Russell Wilson?

@@unlimitedpower978 Haslett ruined him. If you recall Haslett wanted him to be a pocket passer and that wasn't who Aaron was!! He was talented.

@@lillianroux2284 Though to be fair, I'm almost willing to not put that entirely on Haslett because it was just part of NFL orthodoxy. If you want success, you want a prolific pocket passer. The league has changed a lot since then. Aaron Brooks coming into the NFL today would probably be better off than the era in which he did. Haslett was wrong, yeah, but it's not a trait unique to Haslett, that was the formula for winning in the NFL in that era.

Brooks was solid. His un doing really was the 05 season. Yall can go look at his stats, he was a top 10 qb in 01,02,03,04. He was just a little to hot and cold, and king of the 8-8! He went either 7-9,8-8, or 9-7 until the Katrina season. I guess people said he would smile after INTS and that really pissed people off, but i dont know, i didnt think much of it. Plus the saints D was not great during his time. Overall i average/solid qb, but nothing more.

And Al Michaels and (I think???) Chris Collinsworth were so excited for the Saints too.

@@unlimitedpower978 I think it's Chargers QB great Dan Fouts

@@zanedegonia5705 Oh yeah you are very correct. Don't think Collinsworth was doing commentary work yet. Would have also been noted after Madden retired that Michaels and C-worth had worked together before, but alas, twas not the case as you pointed out.

@@unlimitedpower978 announcers was al Michaels, dan fouts, dennis miller

Same here, That sticks out in my head like it was yesterday. I was a teenager. Now I'm telling my kid about how good the Rams were

Yeah that 2002 season was so disappointing. Starting off 7-2 only to miss the playoffs with losses to bad teams like the Browns and Panthers

Loved those saints. L. Glover, Sammy knight, Kyle Turley, Joe horn, Deuce, Ricky

Acting like they'd beat the Giants...

Or the Vikings

@@JackRule16 I don't think he's implying any of that. Not sure if you're a Giants fan or not but defending the honor of a team that got destroyed in that SB seems kinda silly.

Rams would have gotten beat too. Stop it.

The Rams didn't have the defense that year. A much more interesting matchup would have been if the Rams played as good in 2000 as they did in 2001

I miss those days. Saints in the same division as the 49ers and Rams from 1970-2001.

Who remember when the Seahawks were in the Afc west?

NateIII11 absolutely. Basically the Rams became the joke of the NFC west and struggled the whole 2000s and 2010s after warner left for Arizona and failed miserably with Jeff fisher and sam Bradford. The Rams were so bad they had to change scenery to an original home to reboot their franchise. Meanwhile, because the Rams lost to a 6th round QB and a new head coach formerly fired by Cleveland, that would ultimately spark the greatest dynasty professional football has ever seen, a dominant run of success over a span of 19 years and counting. And who knows, this Sunday, maybe all these years later, these two will have a chance at a rematch in Atlanta. What a story that would be.

The patriots filmed the rams practice and plays before that super bowl

@Maxwell Wooley Literally didn't happen, the Boston Herald apologised for using alternative facts from an anonymous source to formulate a story yet you continue to reciprocate these falsities

stealthiscool you don’t know that? Them saying it was false has zero determination of what actually happened. You probably think Barry bonds and mark mcgwire cranked 70+ home runs all natural too don’t you? 😂🤷‍♂️

Maxwell Wooley IT LITERALLY DIDNT HAPPEN! You’re utterly delusional, get a life and stop ignoring facts to justify your hatred www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.bostonherald.com/2008/05/14/apology/amp/

HAKIM DROPS THE BALL! THERE IS A GOD AFTER ALL! :)

but defence wins championships!!

Well, they had a chance, but Tom. Fuckin'. Brady.

@@matthewdowling6549 not once but twice! 36 and 53! brady and the patriots own the rams!

@@1990Thunderbolt Maybe in 2018 but in 2001....nah. #Spygate

@@Crunch_Buttsteak sorry not sorry 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆💍💍💍💍💍💍 the rams can't relate! #patsnation! #gopats!!!!

Xever Williams Saints now are better than they were as now they are the heavily favorites to go to the super bowl.

I'm not sure about it being a forgone conclusion of them getting past those other NFC teams if they had gotten past the Saints. I agree the 2000 Rams offense was spectacular. "The greatest show on turf" at it's absolute peak. Even greater then the previous year when they won the SB and the year after when they got back to the SB and had probably there greatest overall team during that 3 year stretch. But there defense in 2000 was just about atrocious. Which is why they hired Lovie Smith in that off season to run the defense. There 2000 defense would have still eventually caused there down fall IMO.

You really should consider the fact that they played their best in domes. January in New Jersey would have slowed them down. Even if they got to NFCC Giants would have won.

The 2000 rams was the worst team outta their 3 years they went 10-6 after starting 6-0 and just barely made the playoffs

Unfortunately, the tape we had did not have an opening intro. It just went straight to the kickoff. We also love those classic intros so anytime we have it we promise to use it!

NFL Throwback that’s alright you can’t control that. Great vid!

Ric Dweld question is will history repeat itself since this time your team is playing the rams for the rights to go to Super Bowl 53. I’m pulling for you guys though.

Saint was dookie but had talent compared to now but dam I was only few years behind you

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@@blakfloyd 🤔

@@17th_Luv 2000 season, 2001 playoffs

@@CrysisOwnsHalo im counting years bro. Its noting serious.

Johnny Moore the 07 Pats changed all that, by being the first team to run over 50% shotgun, which now almost every team does. But the 2018 Rams are changing it back, they run almost 70% of their snaps from under center.

Or made it to the NFL before he was 50.

Damn right !!! and even better

Not at all. He was pretty solid passer, had the 7th highest passer rating in the league at his height in 03. Sadly his last season with the Saints was really bad and that's how lots of Saints fans remember him.

He was solid. He battle inconsistencies at times, but he was a pretty solid QB.

They blow. The LA ones are way cooler and they never should have changed. Plus the Super Bowl they won in St Louis was in the LA uniforms

Me too

Division rivalries back then.

You are welcome.....

Rams would have beaten Baltimore damn you saints

@@NorCalRamsfan I doubt it. The Ravens defense was too amazing

@@NorCalRamsfan :)

@@NorCalRamsfan You must think the Saints were way better than the 2000 Ravens then since if the Saints had to nearly choke just for the Rams to avoid getting crushed by the Saints what do you think the Ravens would've done to the Rams?

As a fellow Viking fan, even if the Rams pulled it off I don't think they would've beaten the Vikings at the Metrodome. Their defense was very suspect, Warner had taken another beating from the Saints 'D' and the Vikings were coming off a 1st round bye. Moss, Carter, Smith, and Culpepper would've been too much for them.

@@deanladue3151 maybe , but I remember them killing the Vikings earlier. It would have been close.

I think the Rams were a horrible matchup for the Vikings and it showed in 1999 and 2000. The Vikings secondary was terrible and the pass rush wasn’t good enough. The Vikings defense was at its worst at the end of the season too, getting lit up by Warner, Favre, Manning and Kerry Collins. Even Shaun King lit them up twice and the Bucs had a 41 point game against them. The Bucs! Vikings did play better at home and their only hope was to catch the Rams D on a bad day. Maybe Minnesota didn’t show the Rams everything when they played during the season.

I think the most disappointing thing about the regular season game in 2000 was the Vikings offense had a disappointing game against the Rams defense. The Rams were up 33-14 in the 3rd quarter in that game. Bud Carson was brought in as a defensive consultant and it improved the defense significantly. Also the Vikings only had 8 interceptions that year. That’s it. Warner had zero in the game against them. To beat the Rams you needed to force turnovers.

yeah XD, them boys wasn't playin that game

yes because Warner broke his hand/thumb