Saints History
 

Apologies if this is posted in wrong place and if it is covered somewhere else. As a newcomer to the Saints I was wondering if there was a website or book or anything else that would be worth looking through to come up to speed with a full history of the team, players and organisation. This might just help me get up to the level of probably everybody else on here with knowing who's who and what's what.
Thanks in advance.

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Welcome to the WhoDat Nation!!

Hope this helps!

Who Dat History - Canal Street Chronicles

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Ideal thanks for that some good reading for down time in work.

Ok got to ask it and again probably be shot down for this, where does the Who Dat originate from tempted to get one of the t-shirts with the fleur-des-lys and Who Dat purely to scramble heads here in Scotland.

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Nice to see another UK Saints fan.
Wikipedia is pretty good for a quick overview of Saints history and civers individual seasons too.

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More UK fans than I thought there would be, most you see over here are Raiders or Cowboys although did work beside a die hard Packers fan.
Reading through the Wikipedia stuff as well and going through the forum a lot of catching up to do but looking worth it.

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What made you choose the Saints?.

Id been a fan of the NFL for a good few years but was watching most weeks and decided it was time yo pick a team and without any ties to any team started narrowing down a few teams and remembered listening to the 09 Championship game on BBC radio at work and how much I was pulling for a Saints win jumped on the bandwagon.

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Pretty much the same I used to watch but never really had any allegiances to any particular team or area unlike Hockey. I did one of these joke which team best suits your personality and it came up with the Saints, thought it fitted in perfectly as have always had a love and admiration of New Orleans in terms of music, food, culture so made my choice on there.

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There's a book entitled "Bags to Riches". Admittedly, I have not read it, but I bought it because Deuce was signing autographs. Nonetheless, it's a history of the Saints.

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Ill see if I can find a copy.


Edit
Just seen the cover and I have read it.

Its not bad but mostly covers the post Katrina years.

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There is a lot of history to be found here.
http://blackandgold.com/search.php?searchid=83662

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Oak thank you again some more reading for me will get there

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Welcome to Black and Gold and welcome to Who Dat Nation! Here is a great reference site which contains detailed statistical information about the franchise since its first season.

New Orleans Saints

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You can also just ask some of us that have been fans since day one of the franchise. I was nine when my dad was transferred to Barksdale AFB in northwestern Louisiana in the early summer of 1967. I was more of a baseball fan at the time, but did follow as much NFL as I could. I was overjoyed when I discovered that my new home state was getting its own NFL team. The rest is history. I live, breathe and bleed Saints football.

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I was born at BAFB in 1963!

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I was born in Rapid outside of Ellsworth AFB in 1957. I lived there until we moved down here.

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Try this. It's pretty good. Covers the first twenty years of the franchise and Book 2 picks up from there.

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As you know, during that time the dreaded ArkLaTx, was virtually 100% cowgirls country, so that explains my stunted development/growth as a Saints fan.

But I have been taking vitamins, supplements and Black & Gold Saints Fan Miracle Grow, and now I am big and strong!!

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Must have been a amazing experience watching the side go from disaster to disaster and then the first playoffs and Dome Patrol to finally see major success in the last 8 years or so.

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Welcome

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Thanks for the help and advice everyone and Guido I could happily sit and pick your brain over everything you must have seen over the years, I wouldn't want to overstep the mark and annoy anybody though.
I do have to say in the short time I've been a member in here I've never been made more welcome to any forum or group before. I can say with pride and if I'm allowed I'm a member of the Who Dat nation.

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Small world 656..........I was born at BAFB in 1959. :p

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New Orleans Saints | Key Moments in Saints History

Russell B. Long - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia In 1966, at the request of former National Football League Commissioner Pete Rozelle, Long and Congressman Hale Boggs used their influence to pass legislation that allowed for the merger of the American Football League and the National Football League (NFL). Without the legislation, the merger would have been prohibited by anti-trust laws governing monopolies. In exchange for ensuring the passage of the legislation, Long and Boggs requested that Rozelle award the next NFL expansion franchise to New Orleans.[5] Rozelle complied, and Long and Boggs joined Rozelle in announcing that New Orleans had obtained the New Orleans Saints on November 1, 1966.[6]


New Orleans Saints Team Encyclopedia - Pro-Football-Reference.com

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Thanks again everyone

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You're Welcome...

It is good to welcome a fellow Scot to the B&G Family!

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I will share what I can in a little more than two weeks. My wife and I are flying to Rome tomorrow morning and then off on a cruise with stops in other Italian ports, Turkey and Greece.

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Enjoy the places there are amazing even though Naples is a basket case. Greece is just something else have been there many times and love it as well.

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Cool whereabouts are you from.

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Welcome & Enjoy. Best fan site I have seen right here

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Thanks everybody for all your help and input some great stuff in all the links there. I can truthfully say never been on a forum where I got such immediate help from people without any trash talk because I didn't know anything.