History of the New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are an American football team in the NFL and are based in New Orleans, Louisiana where they were organized in 1967. In 2009, the team won Super Bowl XLIV. == 1960s: Creation == The city of New Orleans established an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, facilitated by a combination of local activism (most notably by David Dixon and members of the local media, such as New Orleans States-Item sports editor Crozet Duplantier) and political decisions by Senator Russell Long and Congressman Hale Boggs who approved the NFL-AFL merger conditional on giving a franchise to New Orleans.

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History of the New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are an American football team in the NFL and are based in New Orleans, Louisiana where they were organized in 1967. In 2009, the team won Super Bowl XLIV. == 1960s: Creation == The city of New Orleans established an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, facilitated by a combination of local activism (most notably by David Dixon and members of the local media, such as New Orleans States-Item sports editor Crozet Duplantier) and political decisions by Senator Russell Long and Congressman Hale Boggs who approved the NFL-AFL merger conditional on giving a franchise to New Orleans.

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