Posts Tagged ‘ New Orleans Saints ’

Aints No More!

Feb 10th, 2010 | By Jon Wagner | Category: Football, Top Story

This year’s annual Mardi Gras celebration isn’t set to begin until Tuesday of next week, but New Orleans’ beloved Saints have already touched off an early Bourbon Street bash which might last until then.
With a stunning 31-17 upset victory over the Indianapolis Colts (16-3) in Super Bowl XLIV, at Sun Life Stadium in Miami on [...]



Saints Win First NFL Title With 31-17 Win in Super Bowl XLIV

Feb 8th, 2010 | By Joe Pietaro | Category: Football, Top Story

Heading into South Florida and Super Bowl XLIV, many folks would have guessed that one of the quarterbacks would have melted down the stretch and not come through when it counted. That’s part of the game, right? But how many of them would have said that Peyton Manning – the 2009 NFL MVP – would [...]



Senior Bowl Stock Reports

Feb 7th, 2010 | By Nick Haswell | Category: College Football

It is just about that time of the year again. The NFL season is culminating this Sunday with the Super Bowl between the Indianapolis Colts and the New Orleans Saints. That means that the Super Bowl is the last professional football game for 6 months. For some, that is sad news. But for the hardcore [...]



Colts To Take On Saints In XLIV

Jan 26th, 2010 | By Joe Pietaro | Category: Football, Top Story

The field is down to two from 32. In two weeks, we will know who is going to be king of the football world – at least for this year. In two games that were hyped for a week, similar circumstances prevailed in the end., and both involved the superstar quarterbacks Peyton Manning and Brett [...]



Now They Are Down To Four

Jan 18th, 2010 | By Joe Pietaro | Category: Football, Joe Pietaro, Top Story

The NFL Divisional round is behind us and although this weekend was not as exciting as the last, just try and tell that to the fans of the teams still alive in the hunt for the Lombardi Trophy. Three of the four favorites and home teams prevailed, sans the San Diego Chargers.
On Saturday, the New [...]



Hapless Teams Get Upsets For Christmas

Dec 28th, 2009 | By Joe Pietaro | Category: Football, Joe Pietaro, Top Story

Just a few short weeks ago, all the talk was that there were two teams who could go undefeated in the regular season and possibly all the way to Super Bowl XLIV. First the New Orleans Saints fell victim and now the 14-1 Indianapolis Colts, too, will not threaten the ‘72 Miami Dolphins. Mercury Morris [...]



The Drew Brees Watch

Nov 7th, 2009 | By Jon Wagner | Category: Football

One year after passing for the second most yards (5,069) in an NFL season, only 15 yards behind Hall Of Fame quarterback Dan Marino’s single-season record of 5,084 yards in 1984, New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees is  again poised to take aim at Marino’s record. FRO follows Brees’ prusuit of Marino each week, throughout [...]



The Drew Brees Watch

Oct 30th, 2009 | By Jon Wagner | Category: Football

One year after passing for the second most yards (5,069) in an NFL season, only 15 yards behind Hall Of Fame quarterback Dan Marino’s single-season record of 5,084 yards in 1984, New Orleans Saints’ quarterback Drew Brees is  again poised to take aim at Marino’s record. FRO follows Brees’ prusuit of Marino each week, throughout [...]



What’s Wrong With The Chargers

Oct 24th, 2009 | By Will Osgood | Category: Football

To answer the question of this article completely it would probably take a 900,000 word novel. I don’t have time to write such a piece, nor do you have time to read it. Instead, I will give a brief, to the point synopsis of such problems from a coach’s perspective. Some may disagree, although most [...]



Giants Zone Out In The Big Brees-y

Oct 19th, 2009 | By Jon Wagner | Category: New York Giants, Top Story

New Orleans is known as “The Big Easy,” but the football game played at The Superdome on Sunday was anything but trouble-free for the New York Giants, who were unable to stop one of the NFL’s best quarterbacks and the league’s most prolific offense, which scored touchdowns on its first four possessions and [...]