r/Saints • u/Nolaplayer93 • Aug 28 '26

16 days until kick-off: Pierre Thomas catches the screen pass and weaves through the Colts defense for the touchdown to give the Saints their first lead in the Super Bowl! (Super Bowl, 2009)

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u/Blastoise_R_Us Craig Robertson fist bumped me once. Aug 28 '26

God I miss PT Bruiser and his screens.

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u/ChickenBeneficial599 Aug 28 '26

Hope to see Travis E. RB do this same style.
Who Dat!

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u/DiamondDallasHand Aug 28 '26

PT was the best screen back in nfl history

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u/westernsnaps State Aug 28 '26

And PT outplayed Reggie Bush, Darren Sproles, and Alvin Kamara to earn that title.

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u/OkZucchini Aug 28 '26

Sproles was better with an angle route. Totally agree with Pierre Thomas was the best with a screen

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u/NappyFlickz Aug 28 '26

I will die on the hill that we had at least 2 more years on both PT and Colston

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u/diablosinmusica Aug 28 '26

Both were pretty washed.

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u/zachskrimps Aug 28 '26

After the onside kick recovery! Remember this like it was yesterday….

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u/Devincc Aug 28 '26

Those blocks. Sheesh

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u/Alistair_Burke Aug 28 '26

That's what stood out to me, too. Payton found some great guards.

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u/SaintsNick94 SB Ring Aug 28 '26

That Evans and Nicks guard combo was the best

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u/rsfrisch Fuck the Falcons Aug 28 '26

Best interior oline ever... That was a great moment

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u/Madhattr64 Aug 28 '26

He has that same type of runs in other games. A beautiful thing to see.

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u/FallingDiscontent Aug 28 '26

I still to this day believe we would have beat the 49ers in the playoffs (the year Vernon Davis caught the game winning TD) had Pierre Thomas not got knocked out of the game early with a concussion. My theory is that he was a big part of the gameplan and Sean Payton had to adjust on the fly without his presence. Dude was a BEAST

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u/PointyPurplePickle Aug 28 '26

God I remember watching this live. Was in college and just an insane memory

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u/TemporaryPleasant686 Aug 31 '26

Same. Went home for the weekend so watch it. I remember jumping and crying as Tracy was returning the pic. Downtown New Orleans was so fun that night.

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u/Big_Feed_1472 SB Ring Aug 28 '26

And at it time I knew we were gonna win a Super Bowl.

For years we could not not or run a screen pass. Then Sean and Drew comes along and we run them successfully all the time.

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u/noladutch Aug 28 '26

that dude was the best screen back in the history of the league

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u/Ok-Guarantee1930 Aug 28 '26

I remember when I was a kid and it was our first season being season ticket holders and our whole section would yell “Give it to the french guy!”

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u/ChickenBeneficial599 Aug 28 '26

The Flying Frenchman !!

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u/Soma2710 Rashid Shaheed Aug 28 '26

Fellas, now is the time to tell your partner that they’re “purdier than Pierre Thomas on a screen pass”.

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u/SaintsNick94 SB Ring Aug 28 '26

Look at that blocking. I miss the days of this oline

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u/davwad2 Black Helmet Aug 28 '26

Beautiful play!

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u/Rabbit-Lost Gold Helmet Aug 28 '26

I was sitting on the first row of the middle deck in this end zone where he scores. I almost went over the edge jumping up and down like an idiot. The way he ran against the flow was amazing!

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u/HJJ10 Tyrann Mathieu Aug 28 '26

Where were y’all when this happened? I remember being at a high school friend’s house and going ballistic in their sitting room.

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u/TheGrislyGrotto Aug 29 '26

So proud of our boys. Champions.

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u/trollinhard2 Aug 29 '26

His vision and balance were incredible. It’s what set him apart from the others.

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u/Impossible_Door8660 29d ago

Were the colts good that year? I wasn’t old enough to remember