The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in N...
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League as a member ...
The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans. The Saints compete in the National Football League as a member of the league's National Football Conference South division. The team was founded by John W. Mecom Jr., David Dixon, and the city of New Orleans on November 1, 1966. The Saints began play in Tulane Stadium in 1967 where they remained through the end of the 1974 NFL season, when they moved, for the start of the 1975 season, into the new Louisiana Superdome.
The name "Saints" is an reference to the jazz music heritage of New Orleans and the spiritual "When the Saints Go Marching In" which is strongly associated with New Orleans and is often sung by fans at games. It is also an allusion to the team's foundation date, November 1, being All Saints' Day in the Catholic faith as New Orleans has a large Catholic population. The team's primary colors are old gold and black; their logo is a simplified fleur-de-lis.
For most of their first 20 years, the Saints were barely competitive, only getting to .500 wins twice.
