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Based in New Orleans, Louisiana -- the Saints is a professional football team which goes back all the way to 1967 when they start out playing as an expansion team under the Eastern conference until 1969. For about 31 years the Saints were part of the national football conference West division and from 2002 until today they have been part of the NFC South division.
The team's home stadium is the Louisiana Superdome, their general manager is Mickey Loomis, the head coach is Sean Payton and the current owners are Tom Benson and Rita Benson LeBlanc.
Championships and Important Moments:
The New Orleans Saints have had many achievements worth mentioning, amongst them and we have the three division championships they have earned, in 1991 and 2000 they were the national football conference West division champions in 2006 they were the NFC South division champions.
The first few years the Saints experiment with real success where between 1987 and 1992 when they made the playoffs four times and had set many records during the non-playoff season. In addition, in the year 2000 were able to beat the St. Louis Rams (the Super Bowl champions) and conquered their first playoff victory.
Amongst the single-season records we have that in 2007 Drew Brees had 652 passing attempts -- 440 of which were successful for a grand total of 4423 passing yards, out of those 440 successful passes 28 where passing touchdowns. The same year Marques Colston had 98 successful receiving passes.
Quarterbacks in the Current Roster:
-- Tyler Palko -- Mark Brunell -- Travis Lulay -- Drew Brees
New Orleans Saints Recent News:
As of June 10, 2008 -- the New Orleans Saints continue their endeavors by helping out the New Orleans community to restore for homes in the Hollygrove neighborhood which remained ravaged nearly 3 years after the hurricane Katrina devastated the city. The temperature was already in the triple digits by 8 a.m. but that didn't seem to stop the Saints to put down their helmets and jerseys in order to work for their community.
Besides helping of the community under the extreme weather they have also been prepared themselves for the 2008 season which is expected to be a great one, if you're a fan of the Saints you better hurry to get those tickets because they're going to go fast.
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