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The city of New Orleans, Louisiana was awarded an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, 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 franchise to New Orleans).

In December, oilman John W. Mecom, Jr. became the majority shareholder and thus president of the team; later that month, Tom Fears was named head coach. The team was named "Saints" due to its birthday on the Roman Catholic Church's All Saints Day -- a fitting nickname for a team in the largely Catholic New Orleans area. The team's original stadium was Tulane Stadium, which could seat more than 80,000 fans. The team was placed in the Capitol Division of the NFL's Eastern Conference; their division foes were the Dallas Cowboys, Philadelphia Eagles, and Washington Redskins.

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Indeed, yes.

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Thanks for that bit of history.

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1 like the cheerleader out fits at about 15 and a half

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We need to just shoot the bird at Nike and make that uniform exactly like ours now. I love our traditional uniforms (gold pants) but man that look we had was so old school, it's sick! Gold numbers, I forgot about those.

Shame we were snake bit with a turrible owner. When Tom Benson purchased the team he literally had to start over from scratch.

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