New Orleans Saints
Essay by people • July 18, 2011 • Essay • 305 Words (2 Pages) • 2,063 Views
The new orleans saint entered the nfl on November 1 1966. The first owner of the team was John Mecom. They first played there games at Tulane Stadium which could sit eighty thousand fans. The New Orleans Saints were horriable for the first forty five years of the franchise. In the seventys the saints went threw ups and downs. In nineteen seventy five the Saints moved from Tulane Stadium to where they play at now the New Orleans Super Dome. In nineteen eighty the New orleans saints had the worst record in the nfl they where one and fifteen. In nineteen eighty five the saints were sold and to and bought by a welthy man by the name of Tom Benson. After Tom Benson bought the team they were on they way to wining ways. In nineteen eighty seven the New Orleans Saints made it to the nfl Play offs for the first time in the history of the franchise. From ninteen nighty until two thousand nine there were many bitter sweet moments for the new orleans saints.The team had one of the best defenses in the whole national football league they were known as the dome patrol. In nineteen ninety one the new orleans saints one there division for the first time in the teams history.The new orleans saints exsperinced devastation when hurricane katrinia hit in the year of two thousand five. They were a floating franchise at that time because they didnt have a home stadium to play in. The superdome was destroyed by the huge category five hurricane. In two thousand and six the new orleans saints returned back home to the super dome in new orleans la. After that huge devastation the new orleans saints went on to win the national football conference and the national football leauge super bowl.
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