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Happy Birthday Saints
Posted on 11/1/13 at 5:26 am
Posted on 11/1/13 at 5:26 am
LA History in college taught me something!
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First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who also founded the Louisiana Superdome and the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by Congressman Hale Boggs, Senator Russell Long, and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle. The NFL needed congressional approval of the proposed AFL-NFL merger.[2] Dixon and a local civic group had been seeking a NFL franchise for over 5 years and had hosted record crowds for NFL exhibition games. To seal the merger, Rozelle arrived in New Orleans within a week, and announced on November 1, 1966 that the NFL officially had awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise. The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans – "When the Saints Go Marching In", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints' Day. When the deal was reached a week earlier, Dixon strongly suggested to Rozelle that the announcement be delayed until then. Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: "He thought it would be a good idea. He had an idea the team was going to need all the help it could get."
Posted on 11/1/13 at 6:32 am to LSUCanFAN
All Saints Day - Hence:New Orleans Saints!!!
Posted on 11/1/13 at 6:51 am to Bayou
greatest day for me in sports history.
Posted on 11/1/13 at 6:56 am to Bayou
Great day to be a Saints fan!
Posted on 11/1/13 at 7:29 am to geauxtigers6492
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Pete Rozelle
Screwed the Saints from day one. I don't remember the specifics but there was a trade deal with the 49'ers that Rozelle blocked for some weird reason. Any old time fans remember this? And not to stay on the negative, but John Mecom had to be the worst owner in NFL history.
With that said, I was in Tulane Stadium for the opener and the Gilliam return. Loudest event I had ever witnessed and that includes great Tiger Stadium moments and the Led Zeppelin concert at the Municipal Auditorium.
Posted on 11/1/13 at 7:37 am to teeMike
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John Mecom had to be the worst owner in NFL history
True.
Posted on 11/1/13 at 7:50 am to LSUFanNTX
The Dave Dixon book tells a lot of old stories too....very interesting.
Posted on 11/1/13 at 9:54 am to geauxtigers6492
Saints fact of the day
Posted on 11/1/13 at 10:19 am to Brees from Grayskull
On March 8, 1967, fans started lining up at midnight to purchase the first Saints season tickets, which went on sale at 8 a.m. at the Mecom Building, 944 St. Charles Ave., on Lee Circle next to the YMCA. The first in line were Calvin Long, 27, a baker from Poydras, and Al Whiteman, a Kenner flashbulb salesman. Nearly 15,000 tickets were sold that first day.
Saw one of these with an original face price of $6
-now $250 on eBay
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