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The New Orleans Saints - a professional American football team, founded in 1967, is based in New Orleans, Louisiana and are presently champions of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).throughout their striving career, it took them more than a decade before finally finishing a season with a .500 record and two decades before having a winning season. The teams first victorious years were from 1987-1992, when the team made the playoffs four times and had winning records in the non-playoff seasons. In the 2000 season, the Saints defeated the then defending Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams for the team's first playoff win.
The Saints' home stadium is the Louisiana Superdome. The team has played its home games in the "dome" since 1975. However, due to the destructive Hurricane Katrina in the area, the Saints' 2005 home opener was played at Giants Stadium, the home stadium of their opponent, the New York Giants. The remainder of their 2005 home games were split between the Alamo dome in San Antonio, Texas, and LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. After a $185 million renovation of the historic stadium, the team returned to the Superdome for the 2006 season. The team played its 2006 home opener in front of a sold-out crowd and national television audience on September 25, 2006, defeating its NFC South rival, the Atlanta Falcons by a score of 23-3.
It is among the six teams never to have played in a Super Bowl. The Saints, Cleveland Browns, Detroit Lions, and Jacksonville Jaguars, however, have all at least qualified for conference championship games, with the Saints qualifying for the NFC Championship Game on January 13, 2007, after defeating the Philadelphia Eagles 27-24 in the divisional round of the playoffs.
They are the first team in NFL history to reach a conference championship after losing 13 or more games the previous season and suffered a 39-14 loss the following week to the Chicago Bears in the NFC Championship.
The Saints were actually surreptitiously born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle, when the NFL needed approval of the proposed AFL-NFL merger. To seal the deal, Rozelle announced on, coincidentally, All Saints' Day (November 1, 1966) that the NFL officially had awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise; Boggs' Congressional committee consequently quickly approved the NFL merger. The team was named for the world-famous jazz anthem, "When the Saints Go Marching In," and in recognition of the city's conventionally Catholic population. John W. Mecom, Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder.
The team's colors, black and gold, represent both Mecom's and New Orleans' strong ties to the oil ("black gold") industry.
That first season started with an exhilarating 94-yard opening kickoff return for a touchdown by John Gilliam, but, unfortunately, the Saints lost that game 27-13 to the Los Angeles Rams at Tulane Stadium. Their first season record was 3-11, which set an NFL record for most wins by an expansion team. Though, they failed to finish as high as second in their division until 1979, when the team and the 1983 team became the only ones to finish at .500 until 1987.
Fortune struck the team when, on 8 November 1970, Tom Dempsey kicked an NFL record-breaking 63-yard field goal to defeat the Detroit Lions by a score of 19-17 in the final seconds of the game and the record is still preserved.
In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting local media personality Bernard "Buddy D" Diliberto to advise Saints supporters to wear paper bags over their heads at the team's home games. This paper-bag custom spread rapidly, first to fans of other poorly-performing teams within the NFL, and ultimately to those of other American team sports, ultimately becoming a firmly-established convention throughout the United States.
Tom Benson – the present Saints owner acquired the franchise in 1985, and hired Jim Finks as general manager and Jim Mora as head coach. Together, they provided the team with their first-ever winning record and playoff appearance, going 12-3 in 1987. Another playoff followed in 1990, and the club's first division title came in 1991. Although they made the playoffs four times under Mora's term, they were never able to win a playoff game. Mora coached the Saints until the middle of the 1996 season, when he stepped down halfway through a depressing 3-13 season.
By the end of the 1996 season, former Chicago Bears coach famous Mike Ditka was hired to replace Mora. Although this primarily generated a lot of excitement among Saints fans, Ditka's tenure ended up being a frustration. The Saints went 6-10 in their first two seasons under Ditka (1997 and 1998). During the 1999 NFL Draft, Ditka traded all of his picks for that season, as well as the first-round and third-round picks for the following season, to draft star University of Texas running back Ricky Williams in the first round. However, Ditka, most of his coaching staff, and general manager Bill Kuharich were fired at the end of the 1999 season due to the club's 3-13 record.
Jim Haslett held the post from 2000 to 2005. In his first year, he took the team to the playoffs but lost to the Minnesota Vikings a week after beating the St. Louis Rams for the team's first ever playoff win. After winning the 2000 NFL Executive of the Year Award, General Manager Randy Mueller was sacked between the 2001 and 2002 seasons without explanation by Benson. The Saints failed to make the playoffs in 2001 and 2002, although in the latter year they had the distinction of beating the eventual Super Bowl XXXVII champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers in both of their regular season meetings, only the second team to do so in NFL history. In 2003 the Saints again missed the playoffs after finishing 8-8. The 2004 season started poorly for the Saints, as they went 2-4 through their first six games and 4-8 through their first twelve games. At that point Haslett's job appeared to be in jeopardy; however, he managed to win the three straight games leading up to the season finale, leaving the Saints in playoff contention in the final week of the season.
In week 17, the Saints defeated division rivals Carolina; however, the Saints needed other results to break their way and when the St. Louis Rams beat the New York Jets the Saints were eliminated despite having beaten the Rams, who finished with the same record. Haslett was fired after the 2005 season, in which the Saints finished 3-13 and did not play one regular season contest in New Orleans due to Hurricane Katrina. On January 17, 2006, the Saints hired Sean Payton as their new head coach.Then in the 2006 NFL draft, with the Texans declaring Mario Williams as their #1 pick, Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush was drafted #2 by the Saints.
On December 17, 2006, the Saints secured their third division title in franchise history. It was the first time the Saints played at home and also their first NFC South title. Sean Payton became the second successive Saints coach to win a division title in his first season. After a loss by the Dallas Cowboys to the Philadelphia Eagles on Christmas Day 2006, the Saints tied-up a first-round playoff bye for the first time in franchise history.
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