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Mickey Loomis (born 1956) [1] is an American sports executive who is the executive vice president and general manager of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He was named NFL executive of the year for 2006. [ 2 ]
Gayle Marie LaJaunie Bird Benson (born January 26, 1947) is an American businesswoman who is the owner of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) and the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
This was the only playoff appearance in Haslett's six years in New Orleans. They would only notch one other winning record in 2002. That year, the Saints started 9–4, but three consecutive losses, including to the 1-14 Cincinnati Bengals, resulted in them missing the playoffs by a single game. In 2005, the Saints crashed to a 3–13 record.
The New Orleans Saints beat the Detroit Lions in the 2011 NFC wild-card playoff game 45–28. [50] New Orleans also tied the NFL's postseason mark for team first downs in a game (34), and broke the record for total yards with 626, eclipsing the yardage record set 49 years ago.
Schwenk was the general manager for the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL) in 1966 and the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) from 1968 to 1972. [2] [3] He died in 2016. [4]
Dennis Lauscha is an American sports executive who is president of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans and NFL's New Orleans Saints. [1] [2] He is responsible for managing various aspects of the club, [3] including stadium operations, [4] marketing [5] legal matters, financial operations, human resources, government affairs, community affairs, [6] [7] and information technology.
In January 2018, New Orleans musician Shamarr Allen dedicated a song to Payton entitled "Hit the Sean Payton" [91] which he composed after watching an Instagram live video of Payton dancing in celebration with the Saints players after defeating the Carolina Panthers for the third time that season.
The city of New Orleans was awarded an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, [1] thanks to a combination of local activism (most notably by David Dixon and by members of the local media, such as New Orleans States-Item sports editor Crozet Duplantier) and political force (Senator Russell Long and Congressman Hale Boggs, who made approval of the NFL-AFL merger conditional on the awarding of a ...