New Orleans Saints

The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints are currently champions of the Southern Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL).

The Saints were founded in 1967, as a result of the AFL-NFL Merger, for which legislation was helped pass in Congress by the Louisiana contingent of Senators and Representatives. Louisiana was rewarded for its lobbying with an NFL franchise, which can be considered a direct result of the existence of the rival American Football League (AFL 1960 - 1969) and the subsequent merger of the NFL with the AFL. They went more than a decade before they managed to finish a season with a .500 record and two decades before having a winning season. The teams first successful years were from 1987-1992, when the team made the playoffs four times and had winning records in the non-playoff seasons. In the 2000 season, the Saints defeated the then defending Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams for the team's first playoff win.
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