New Orleans Saints
One of the 16 renowned and professional football teams in the United States is the New Orleans Saints. This Louisiana-based football league is the current champion titleholder from the southern division of National Football Conference of NFC.
Founded in the year 1967, the Saints, their other known name, is one of the team results when the National Football League and the Association of Football League merged, where the Representatives and Senators contingent of the Louisiana congress aided the passing of this legislation. The Louisiana state was recompensed for lobbying with a team franchise from NFL, for which resulted to the rival existence with the American Football League, as well as the successive merging of AFL and NFL.
The New Orleans Saints was founded in the year 1967 yet they first tasted victory during the 1987-2002 seasons. During this period, the New Orleans football team made the final tournaments four times. They also had endearing records during the non-playoff seasons. During the season 2002, the New Orleans Saints overpowered the team St. Louis Rams who was the defending champion of Super Bowl league that time.
The home stadium of the New Orleans Saints is the building named Louisiana Superdome. Ever since 1975, the team had been playing their home games in their so-called dome. However, the Hurricane Katrina considerably damaged the whole area of the New Orleans until the year 2005, the home opener of the Saints was competed at the Giants Stadium. This stadium is the dome of New York Giants, which was their opponent.
The rest of the days during the 2005 home game seasons were divided between the Tiger Stadium of LSU in Louisiana and Alamodome in Texas. The hurricane-damaged home dome of the Saints was repaired, costing to about 185 million dollars. After the renovation, the team went back and this time held the competition for 2006 season.
The New Orleans Saints football team competed for the home opener in 2006 after a sold-out mass as well as the audience on national television. This happened on the 25th of September 2006. They were able to defeat the team Atlanta Falcons, their NFC south rival. This 23-3 victory achieved an ESPY award for 2007 named “Best Moment in Sports”.
The Saints, with their head coach Sean Payton, is among the six football teams that have never competed during Super Bowl tournaments. However, they qualified to play for NFC championship tournament on the 13th of January 2007, after crushing Philadelphia Eagles in a score of 27-24, happened during the playoffs in divisional round.
In the history of NFL, the Saints is the only team to have reached the championship phase, even after losing more than 13 games during the earlier season. They endured a losing score of 39-14 against the Chicago Bears during the NFC championship tournament.
The Saints regularly conducts training camps in Mississippi. The latest news about the football team is regarding their sold-out tickets for the 2007 playoff season. In addition, the luxury boxes are already sold out as well. These statistics are mainly surprising because of the fact that the city proper has around 300, 000 individuals or 150, 000 fewer compared to the population in July 2005.
The New Orleans Saints logo was modified thrice although the concept has basically remained all the same ever since the foundation of the team. Their team color consists of white, black and old gold. The logo is an illustration of a fleu-de-lis. The team’s uniform is a combination of white or black jerseys, gold pants and gold helmets. Minor changes were made to the uniforms, adding trims and stripes.
Particularly, there is no fight song chanted by the team’s devotee although they have Gumbo the dog as the team’s mascot.