By John DeShazier, The Times-Picayune

January 23, 2010, 9:58PM

There was a time in New Orleans Saints history when today was unimaginable, when viewing the franchise through the rosiest-colored glasses couldn’t have produced this kind of look, when the football-given right of Who Dats to allow hope to soar necessarily had to be tempered because the franchise routinely was propeller-less, wingless and engineless — often during the same season.

Now, officially, that’s B.S.

Before Sean.

In four seasons, Sean Payton has become the most accomplished coach in franchise history. In less than half a decade he has delivered on the promise of making the Saints annually relevant, among the list of usual suspects when NFC contenders are listed.

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