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New Orleans Saints Trolled By Local Paper (Photo)

By Josh Hill

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In a bit of friendly fire, the New Orleans Saints are being trolled by their local paper after failing to make the playoffs this year.

All the New Orleans Saints needed to do was win one game this week and they’d be in a position to win the NFC South. That didn’t happen, as the Atlanta Falcons torched Drew Brees and the Saints to officially eliminate their rivals from the postseason.

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Winning the NFC South this year is going to be like being the skinniest kid at fat camp, but that won’t be the New Orleans Saints. The team failed to beat the Atlanta Falcons in a de facto playoff game on Sunday afternoon and have been eliminated from playoff contention as a result.

The local sports beat wasted no time in trolling the Saints for their terrible season, as the team that was favored by some to make it to the Super Bowl this year failed to win a division that will see it’s champion tally only 7-wins at best. The front page of the Times-Picayune trolled the Saints for their loss and signaled a changing of attitude towards the once untouchable Saints.

The Saints are kings of New Orleans and of Louisiana, but their failed 2014 season may be the beginning of the end for this valiant era in the team’s history. New Orleans has had a great run, as they won the Super Bowl in 2009 and have been a force to be reckoned with throughout the Brees-Payton era.

But with the team failing to make the playoffs, Drew Brees getting older and Sean Payton a threat to leave for the Michigan Wolverines job, things are looking uncertain in New Orleans.

The Times-Picayune trolling the untouchable kings of New Orleans is hopefully a knee jerk reaction and not a sign of things to come.

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