1984 New Orleans Saints season
Week Date Opponent Result Attendance
1 September 2 , 1984 Atlanta Falcons L 36-28 66,652
2 September 9 , 1984 Tampa Bay Buccaneers W 17-13 54,686
3 September 16 , 1984 at San Francisco 49ers L 30-20 57,611
4 September 23 , 1984 St. Louis Cardinals W 34-24 58,723
5 September 30 , 1984 at Houston Oilers W 27-10 43,108
6 October 7 , 1984 at Chicago Bears L 20-7 53,752
7 October 14 , 1984 Los Angeles Rams L 28-10 63,161
8 October 21 , 1984 at Dallas Cowboys L 30-27 50,966
9 October 28 , 1984 at Cleveland Browns W 16-14 52,489
10 November 4 , 1984 Green Bay Packers L 23-13 57,426
11 November 11 , 1984 at Atlanta Falcons W 17-13 40,590
12 November 19 , 1984 Pittsburgh Steelers W 27-24 66,005
13 November 25 , 1984 San Francisco 49ers L 35-3 65,177
14 December 2 , 1984 at Los Angeles Rams L 34-21 49,348
15 December 9 , 1984 Cincinnati Bengals L 24-21 40,855
16 December 15 , 1984 at New York Giants W 10-3 63,739
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The 1984 New Orleans Saints season was the team's 18th as a member of the National Football League. They were unable to improve on their previous season's output of 8-8, winning only seven games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the eighteenth consecutive season. The Saints started out winning three of their first five games. However, the Saints would struggle as newly acquired quarterback Richard Todd threw 19 interceptions to just 11 touchdowns as the Saints again finished the season with a losing record at 7-9. Todd was acquired from the New York Jets for a first-round draft choice, and he beat out the aging Ken Stabler for the starting job at training camp, the Saints' last at Vero Beach, Florida. Stabler, who was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2016, retired midway through the season. Late in the season, owner John Mecom Jr., who purchased the Saints as an expansion franchise for $8.5 million in late 1966, announced he would sell the team, with an asking price of $70 million. Fears abounded across Louisiana the team would be moved to Jacksonville if Mecom could not find a local buyer. Eventually, the team was sold in early 1985 to New Orleans native and car magnate Tom Benson, with Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards brokering the deal.