The #Saints will wear black jerseys and black pants on Monday night! ⚜️#LACvsNO | @EAMaddenNFL pic.twitter.com/Qae08UR4vp
— New Orleans Saints (@Saints) October 11, 2020
The New Orleans Saints will stick to their black-on-black combo when they match up with the Los Angeles Chargers on “Monday Night Football” next week, making it the third consecutive home game in which they’ll roll with the all-blacks.
It’s adding fire to my personal conspiracy theory that all of their gold pants were lost at LAX following last year’s defeat to the Los Angeles Rams. The Saints have only worn black or white pants since, not counting the “Color Rush” alternates.
Either that or dropping a loss to a conference rival and losing Drew Brees to a season-threatening injury prompted Sean Payton to blame it all on the gold pants, which may or may not have been incinerated. It’s hard to say.
The Saints are 1-1 in black-on-black so far in 2020, so this is an opportunity to increase their standings there and in the total win-loss columns (where they’re 2-2). Here are the winning percentages for each uniform back to 2006 (including the playoffs). Because we all know what you’re wearing determines who wins the day:
- White jerseys, white pants: 5-1 (.833)
- “Color Rush” alternates: 6-3 (.667)
- “Black and Gold” throwbacks: 2-1 (.667)
- Black jerseys, gold pants: 23-13 (.639)
- White jerseys, black pants: 39-25 (.609)
- Black jerseys, black pants: 42-28 (.600)
- White jerseys, gold pants: 31-24 (.564)
