Meant for More Through You (Eph. 1:11-14)
Chris Altrock – February 28, 2010
Recently, the New Orleans Saints won the National Football Leagues’ Super Bowl. It is the most important professional football game in the United States. And the Saint’s win is all the more remarkable given where their road to victory began. After being founded in 1967, the Saints went more than a decade before they finished a season with a .500 record. Ten years of games passed before the team managed a season in which they won half their games. In addition, it was two decades before the Saints celebrated a winning season. They played twenty years before they had one season in which they won more than they lost. In fact, in 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games. A local sportscaster urged Saints fans to wear paper bags over their heads. Many of the bags had written on them the word “Aints” rather than the team’s name, “Saints.” And even after their first winning season, it would be another two decades before the Saints made it to this year’s Super Bowl. The end of their story is all the more amazing given its humble beginnings.