Tom Benson...A Winner.

I'd rank him just below Georgia Frontiere, Bud Adams and Art Modell. He was denied his place among that pantheon by the NFL in 2005.

Compared to John Mecom, Benson is Jerry Buss.

Owners don't play. The only owners that should grt ANY credit are in leagues without hard caps.

It's hard, very hard, for me to forgive Benson for always threatening to move the team to LA, asking for more money from the city/state without opening his books, not paying players (Morton Anderson, Pat Swilling, Sam Mills, Quinn Early, LaRoi Glover, Joe Johnson, etc.) and his comments after Katrina. Also, friends in the car business say he was a total douche to his employees.

It seems he's tried to buy a lot of goodwill later in his life. I'm thankful for that.

(And he didn't pay Drew Brees. That comes from Loomis spending money under the salary cap from the organization. It's not like he wrote a personal check or anything.)

Anyway that's just my opinion.
Everybody's entitled to have one.

frick benson, its all drew brees-he plays so good wooo.......well actually it's more about payton, he should get all the credit - he calls those plays that allow brees to be awesome yay........actually, loomis is the man,he signed payton so that he could write up plays for brees to play really well...

the guy that hired loomis that hired payton that makes plays for brees, frick him; I'll shove my perpendicular argument up your arse if you disagree too.