Dark Nights Now….Brighter Days Ahead

“Gone for the year!” Wait, what? Gone for the year? As if it wasn’t bad enough that one of my good friends and Falcons fanatics was delivering the news, our coach was being snatched from us for an entire season, the season in which we were to be the first team to host a Super [...]

NFL Slams Saints With Suspensions

The NFL slammed the Saints with penalties Wednesday for a bounty program the team ran from 2009 to 2011 that, most significantly, paid bonuses for hits that knocked opponents out for all or part of a game. Coach Sean Payton was suspended for a full season without pay, beginning April 1, and general manager Mickey [...]

Saints Leave Tampa Battered, Beaten

The New Orleans Saints’ 26-20 loss to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers forever will be remembered as the game when Coach Sean Payton was knocked out by a freak knee injury early in the first quarter. Payton called plays from his seat on the bench during most of the first half before he headed to the [...]

Saints, Ivory Overwhelm Chargers 36-21

Up until Friday night, the New Orleans Saints’ passing offense had been just a tad off track this summer. Receiver Devery Henderson then reached up and slapped things back into place. Henderson’s spectacular 46-yard touchdown reception in the first quarter — which required him to tip the ball back up in the air away from [...]

Saints Trip Texans In The Dome

The New Orleans Saints beat the Houston Texans 38-20 Saturday night, capping their return to the Superdome with a preseason victory on a standout night from backup quarterback Chase Daniel and a workmanlike effort from the team as a whole. The result pleased the 70,025 clearly delighted simply to be watching the Saints play football [...]