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New York (AFP) – Retiring New Orleans Saints tight end Benjamin Watson and US Senator Bill Cassidy called out NFL commissioner Roger Goodell on Friday for staying silent in the wake of a controversial ending in last weekend’s playoff game at New Orleans.

Retiring New Orleans Saints tight end Ben Watson isn’t happy with New York State’s new abortion law, and he’s not holding back.

Rep. Steve Scalise has joined his fellow Saints fans in outrage over the controversial NFC Championship game that sent the Rams to the Super Bowl.  It was so bad, Scalise said, that he thinks the Saints and Rams should play a “makeup game.”

Jan. 23 (UPI) — New Orleans Saints cornerback P.J. Williams was arrested Wednesday and charged with driving while intoxicated.

We may think the Los Angeles Rams’ ticket to the Super Bowl is already punched, but some Saints fans are filing a lawsuit to force the NFL to revisit the final moments of the NFC Championship game.

According to reports, the referees who officiated at Sunday’s controversial NFC Championship game between the L.A. Rams and the New Orleans Saints were harassed so much they had to change hotels as a security measure.

Singer Harry Connick Jr. got so fed up with the referees during the Rams-Saints game Sunday that he penned a letter to NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. Saying that he was boycotting the Super Bowl over a blown pass interference call.

If anyone was wondering what the hot-topics of conversation would be during the NFL’s offseason meetings, we just found out at least one of them.

The conduct and antics of some people during the singing of the national anthem, has become a source of anger and controversy over the last few years. However, on Sunday, the antics of one person in particular became a source of greatness and hilarity.

People cope with disappointment in all kinds of different ways, but what one Eagles fan reportedly did after Sunday’s playoff loss takes things to an entirely different level.

Philadelphia Eagles defensive end Michael Bennett angrily confronted a cameraman on Sunday, for filming him after the Eagles’ loss to the New Orleans Saints.

A reporter with a Philadelphia news station took strong exception to a Saints fan who worked in a “Who dat?” during his live broadcast.

Miller Lite has announced that it will offer a free beer to all Philadelphia Eagles fans if their team beats the New Orleans Saints on Sunday.

Injured Carolina Panthers quarterback Cam Newton asked security to bring him a young Saints fan’s little plastic dustpan, as if he was going to autograph it. But instead, Heisman Trophy winner threw the kid’s dustpan in the garbage.

Cameras caught a shouting match between Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Jameis Winston and center Ryan Jensen, on the sidelines during Sunday’s game.

METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Dez Bryant has found a new team, agreeing to contract teams with the New Orleans Saints.

New Orleans Saints players Demario Davis and Ben Watson are fighting hard for criminal justice reform, and they’re making some progress.

As players arrived at Mercedes-Benz Superdome for Monday’s game between New Orleans and Washington, Saints running back Alvin Kamara appeared wearing a Colin Kaepernick jersey and a red ball cap with the slogan “Make Africa Home Again:”

This season, and for the first time in NFL history, there will be male dancers cheering alongside the female cheerleaders, when the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints take the field.

If Roger Goodell agrees to meet with a group of cheerleaders, settling the lawsuits of two of the cheerleaders who recently filed discrimination claims will cost the NFL a pretty penny, 200 of them to be exact.

New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees is suing a San Diego jeweler claiming he was given a fraudulent estimate of the value of diamonds he bought from them, defrauding him out of millions of dollars.

Former New Orleans Saints cheerleader Bailey Davis recently appeared on NBC’s Megyn Kelly Today to decry what she called unfair rules for cheerleaders, after she was fired for posting a risqué photo on her personal Instagram account.

NEW ORLEANS — Tom Benson, a successful auto dealer who brought the New Orleans Saints their only winning season and the “Benson Boogie,” has died.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Case Keenum completed a last-ditch heave near the sideline Sunday on the game’s final play, and Stefon Diggs slithered away for a 61-yard touchdown to give Minnesota a 29-24 victory over New Orleans and send the Vikings to the NFC championship game, with one more win needed to become a first-time Super Bowl host.

The second round of the NFL playoffs is upon us, and perhaps the best match-up of the four games features the New Orleans Saints traveling to Minnesota to play the Vikings.

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees passed for 376 yards and two touchdowns, and the New Orleans Saints held off Carolina’s late comeback bid to seal a 31-26 victory in their NFC wild-card game on Sunday.

Having already thoroughly alienated veterans, the military, the flag, the police, the legal system, and the president of the United States; the NFL is quickly running out of sacred institutions to throw under the bus.

Washington (AFP) – Drew Brees reached an NFL milestone and threw a touchdown after a rear-aided interception to power the New Orleans Saints into the NFL playoffs Sunday by beating Atlanta 23-13.

A New Orleans Saints fan and season-ticket holder has sued the franchise for reimbursement of his ticket prices and attorney fees, in response to Saints players kneeling before the anthem at home games and sitting during the anthem in a Week 3 road game.

Breitbart News executive chairman and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon told SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daly that he wonders what the Pilgrims and American Revolution freedom fighters would think if they saw NFL players kneeling for the national anthem, but standing for Britain’s anthem God Save the Queen.

The NFL has long-standing tradition of mixing respect for the flag, and those who defend it, into their pregame ceremonies and community outreach. However, since the NFL has recently decided to mix disrespect for the flag, and those who defend it, into their pregame ceremonies. One veteran in Louisiana has decided to call them out on it.

Chicago (AFP) – Former New Orleans Saints cornerback Tracy Porter, whose interception return for a touchdown helped seal a Saints victory in the 2010 Super Bowl, has been arrested on domestic battery and drug possession charges, police said Thursday.

Sean Payton tweeted that more Americans have been killed by guns since 1968 than have been killed on battlefields throughout US history.

As the NFL’s Week 4 kicked off, the New Orleans Saints took a knee during the coin toss but stood for the anthem. Meanwhile, across the field, three members of the Miami Dolphins took a knee during the playing of the national anthem.

The New Orleans Saints have the right to protest the flag all they want. However, bars in the New Orleans area also have the right to not show the protests on their TV screens. Now it appears that one such bar in Louisiana is doing just that.

The struggle could become even more real, for the NFL’s growing number of anthem-protesting malcontents. Particularly those who protest while wearing the Fleur-de-lis.