“New Orleans Saints” on The Daily Caller

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Drew Brees overcame five New Orleans turnovers and a 17-point deficit to put the Saints on the brink of their first road playoff victory in franchise history. (more)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Drew Brees has broken the NFL record for yards passing in a season, surpassing a mark that had stood since Dan Marino set it in 1984. (more)

ATLANTA (AP) — Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints showed the high-flying Atlanta Falcons they’re not ready to give up their crown just yet. (more)

On a day when the Giants blew a 21-point fourth-quarter lead, the Detroit Lions snapped a 26-game road losing streak, the NFC West Division-leading teams fell to 6-8, and Tim Tebow ran for a 40-yard touchdown and passed for a 33-yard touchdown in his first NFL start, it was fitting that even the teams from the most recent Super Bowl had to scramble to maintain their equilibrium. (more)

NEW ORLEANS – The calendar screams that it’s too early for grand proclamations. Week three games in the NFL don’t decide division titles or playoff berths. They merely give us some sense of direction. (more)

SAN FRANCISCO — Five things we learned while watching the Saints beat the 49ers in a real nail-biter on Monday Night Football, with New Orleans winning 25-22 on Garrett Hartley’s wounded-duck field goal as time expired … (more)

Moments before the NFL christened its new season Thursday, several dozen players from the defending Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints and the Minnesota Vikings walked a few yards from their sidelines and held their index fingers aloft in what they later called a show of solidarity with their union. (more)

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EDEN PRAIRIE, Minn. (AP) — Brett Favre is back with the Minnesota Vikings. (more)

Brett Favre told ESPN’s Ed Werder in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Wednesday that he has not made any decision about returning to play for the Minnesota Vikings this season and says he will play if healthy. (more)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The NFL’s New Orleans Saints went marching in on Wednesday at the Espy Awards and walked away with the trophy for best sports team while quarterback Drew Brees was named best male athlete by fans of sports TV network ESPN. (more)

Michelle Obama says she is enlisting New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees, New Orleans Hornets guard Chris Paul and other athletes to help spread the message that childhood obesity has become an epidemic. (more)

Reggie Bush has come clean — sort of. (more)

Gov. Bobby Jindal was on a roll Tuesday morning, rallying the crowd of more than 1,000 South Plaquemines Parish residents and New Orleans Saints fans, tying together how the Super Bowl champion Saints can serve as an inspiration for the recovery from the devastating BP oil spill. (more)

The Vikings will get a second shot at toppling the Saints, only this time the NFC title won't be at stake. (more)

Today is T-Day — as in Federal Income Tax Day. The 1040s and their tax relatives have to be finished and sent to the Internal Revenue Service. But those aren’t exactly the only taxes that individuals will have to pay. (more)

Less than a month ago Darren Sharper was euphoric as he rode through the streets of New Orleans during the epic Dat Tuesday victory celebration. (more)

Super Bowl XLIV has come and gone, and once again the EA Sports prediction has come true. This brings the grand total of accurate predictions up to six, with 2008 remaining as the only inaccurate game called by the company’s Madden franchise simulation. As usual, however, the predicted score was much less accurate, and this year some unexpected plays by the New Orleans Saints took a major part in throwing off the simulation’s idea of how the game would go down. (more)

NEW ORLEANS — People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday’s Times-Picayune, which hollered “AMEN!” from its front page. The Saints’ Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it. (more)

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — Sean Payton wore Mardi Gras beads Monday morning and the look of a man who had channeled the Bourbon Street party after the New Orleans Saints completed their stunning resurrection for themselves and their city at the Super Bowl. (more)