Bounty Curse
The apparent curse placed upon the New Orleans Saints following Bountygate, requiring the franchise to lose important football games in increasingly improbable, devastating, and creatively named ways.
Symptoms of the Bounty Curse include watching your favorite team become the losing side of The Catch III, the Minneapolis Miracle, the NOLA No-Call, and seemingly any other playoff moment destined to become an NFL Films documentary.
Unlike normal football heartbreak, the Bounty Curse rarely allows the Saints to simply lose. The loss must occur in a manner so absurd that opposing fans give it a nickname and replay it for the next 30 years.
Symptoms of the Bounty Curse include watching your favorite team become the losing side of The Catch III, the Minneapolis Miracle, the NOLA No-Call, and seemingly any other playoff moment destined to become an NFL Films documentary.
Unlike normal football heartbreak, the Bounty Curse rarely allows the Saints to simply lose. The loss must occur in a manner so absurd that opposing fans give it a nickname and replay it for the next 30 years.
Saints fan: “We’re up with 10 seconds left. There’s literally no way we lose this game.”
Stefon Diggs scores a 61-yard walk-off touchdown.
Saints fan: “The fucking Bounty Curse.”
Stefon Diggs scores a 61-yard walk-off touchdown.
Saints fan: “The fucking Bounty Curse.”
Bounty Curse by WhoDatPhantom September 28, 2026