re: How many feel good about the future after listening to Loomis today?

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mecom paid 8.5 million for the saints. sold for around 64 million to benson.

nice return. plus he was young as heck. 26 i believe when he bought saints. crazy.

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Yeah, he was born in January of 1940, the franchise was awarded to him on All Saints Day 1966.

From a 2012 interview with Mecom about the genesis of the team's colors:

"Dave Dixon was screaming about we had to have Mardi Gras colors, but they were the ugliest things in the world on a football uniform. So in order to pacify him and us, too, because it was a consideration, we built different color combinations and tried them out at Tulane Stadium, and sat at different points of the stadium just to see what it looked like and what would it film like, also—what it would transpose itself back to the audience. It was just an appealing color. It was different from most anything else in the league. At that particular time, too, we weren’t, it wasn’t merged with the AFC, so we weren’t in competition for color with Oakland. They had black, but silver. It actually took a while, and I had no idea we would go through that much trouble. And the best one we came up with was black and gold."

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and I had no idea we would go through that much trouble. And the best one we came up with was black and gold."

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The uniform was one of the best choices Mecom made, but we’ve since fricked it up wearing the black leotards all the time.

You would think Gayle would improve this as a former decorator but she’s absent here too!