Saints’ Benjamin Watson, Demario Davis Campaign to Give Ex-Felons the Right to Vote
New Orleans Saints players Demario Davis and Ben Watson are fighting hard for criminal justice reform, and they’re making some progress.
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.
Monday Night Football is an American institution, so what better way to start an NFL season than with a double-header on the season’s first Monday night?
Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Johnny Manziel who was dumped over his personal troubles, recently posted a photo to social media signaling his impending return to pro football.
A group of six New Orleans Saints players, including running back Mark Ingram, were refused entrance at the door of a posh British nightclub in London because they were “too urban.” But, the full story doesn’t appear to be a race-based issue.
Well, the Falcons can’t say the Saints never gave them anything.
Can anyone say, “barbecue at Mark Ingram’s house?”
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 12 (UPI) — A New Orleans jury found Cardell Hayes guilty on Sunday night in the shooting death of former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith.
NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell couldn’t have made his stance on paying players to intentionally injure other players any more clear than after he slammed the New Orleans Saints for their bounty program. He handed down a punishment so severe, and evidence-challenged, that former NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue stepped in and overturned four of Goodell’s player suspensions.
When the Bountygate scandal involving the New Orleans Saints broke, after their 2009 NFC Championship Game against the Minnesota Vikings, several former players at the time stepped forward to say that they too had played for teams that also had cash payouts for injuring opponents.
Former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith’s blood-alcohol content was three times the legal limit on the night he was shot, according to sources quoted by NOLA.com/The Times-Picayune.
When New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton came out swinging against New Orleans gun violence in the wake of defensive end Will Smith’s death, he was unwittingly criticizing the outgrowth of Democratic rule in the city.
On Tuesday police discovered a loaded semiautomatic handgun in the car of deceased New Orleans Saints player Will Smith.
Speaking in the wake of the murder of former New Orleans Saints defensive lineman Will Smith, head coach Sean Payton labeled private gun ownership “madness.”
TMZ Sports spoke with NFL Hall of Famer Willie Roaf on the shooting death of former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith in a road rage incident. Roaf, a former Saint himself, called for a change in gun laws in the
Former New Orleans Saints player Will Smith was shot and killed Saturday in what appeared to be a road rage incident that has shocked fans of the much-loved athlete.
In the middle of a press conference on Wednesday at the NFL Owners Meetings, New Orleans Saints head coach Sean Payton dropped a news bomb – he has agreed to a new five-year contract.
Twelve year veteran tight end for the New Orleans Saints Benjamin Watson places presidential hopeful Dr. Ben Carson in the pantheon of great black civil rights leaders.
Joe Horn really, really doesn’t like Roger Goodell.