Dec. 8, 2024.

It’d been almost a year since the New Orleans Saints last won a football game.

Three hundred days, to be exact, which probably felt like a lifetime for the players and coaches who’d suffered through the drought.

So when the Saints finally snapped the skid Sunday with a cathartic 26-14 victory over the New York Giants, they celebrated with understandable relief and unbridled joy.

Club Dub, as the Saints call their amplified, high-tech postgame locker room celebration, has christened more important wins over the years. But few victories have been relished as much as this one was in the Superdome.

“It’d been a while since we’ve had the fog (machine) and the music playing,” third-year safety Jordan Howden said. “I almost forgot how that was.”

The Saints need not apologize

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