NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Don’t expect to see any “bag heads” in the Louisiana Superdome this year.The Saints have become a full-blown sensation after winning each of their first four games by two touchdowns or more, easily exceeding the expectations of longtime fans.”We never had anything this explosive before, where we’ve got all aspects of the offense and then we can hold them on defense,” said Pam Randazza, owner of a suburban New Orleans shop that specializes in Saints merchandise. “People are talking about that. It’s looking so much different than the past and it’s really affected people in the way they’re thinking — and the way they’re buying. The   recession hasn’t affected us at all.”The Saints have won a couple games on the strength of Drew Brees’ prolific passing, which was expected. They’ve also done so with the NFL’s second-best running game, a defense with a penchant for big plays and a strong kicking game.It’s all added up to one of the most dominant starts in franchise history, begging the question: Could this finally be the year New Orleans plays in its first Super Bowl?”The funny thing is, we’re talking about it, but we’re also taking it one game at a time,” Randazza said of her discussions with fans. “We don’t want to overdo it because we’ve always got that voodoo hex here where we might have something go wrong if we get ahead of ourselves.”Saints players seem to be taking a similar approach. As they gathered belongings from their lockers shortly before heading out for the long weekend off, several of them wore T-shirts that had “SB44″ screen printed on the front.Brees, who was wearing one of the shirts, declined to discuss it, smiling and shaking his head side-to-side when asked about its significance, or whether it had anything to do with the 44th Super Bowl coming up at the end of this season.Brees wasn’t about to deny that the club’s confidence is surging, though. He asserted that the lessons learned from the past two seasons — the Saints went 7-9 in 2007 and 8-8 in 2008 — laid the foundation for a team that is finally built to win consistently.”We’re ready to handle whatever’s thrown at us,” Brees said. “We’ve experienced a lot from the past two years especially — the agony of defeat and losing some of those close games that we felt like we never should have lost. … We’ve learned a lot from that. We don’t want to be that team ever again. So I think there’s always that fire burning inside of us that makes us feel like that part is in our past, but yet we needed to go through that in order to be where we’re at now.”—–Contact The Daily Reveille’s sports staff at [email protected]