Saints Explode For 27 Unanswered Points In Triumph Over Error-Ridden Niners

 At New Orleans:

Before leaving Sunday's game with injured ribs, quarterback Drew Brees threw for 76 yards and a touchdown to running back Alvin Kamara as the New Orleans Saints (7-2) overcame a 10-point deficit by scoring 27 unanswered points----14 of them off San Francisco special-team miscues----to triumph over the error-plagued Niners (4-6) 27-13.

Niners Pull Off Wild Road Win Over Saints

At New Orleans:

In one of the wildest NFL games to be contested thus far this season, quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo completed 26 of 35 passes for 349 yards and four touchdowns on Sunday while Robbie Gould kicked the game-winning 30-yard field goal as time expired as the San Francisco 49ers (11-2) nosed out the New Orleans Saints (10-3) 48-46 on the road, offsetting a six-touchdown performance (five through the air and one on the ground) for the Saint's veteran QB Drew Brees.

Niners wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders caught seven passes for 157 yards and a touchdown while also throwing for another score, to running back Raheem Mostert.

Niners Fall Again, This Time To Saints

At Santa Clara, California:

Quarterback Drew Brees completed 28 of 39 passes for 323 yards and three touchdowns while Mark Ingram carried the ball 15 times for 158 yards and another score on Sunday as the New Orleans Saints (4-4), with their fourth win in their last five starts, handed the home-standing San Francisco 49ers (1-7) their seventh straight defeat, 41-23.

Niners Capture Wild OT Affair In New Orleans

At New Orleans:

After quarterback Colin Kaepernick (who had earlier thrown a touchdown pass to Anquan Boldin) completed a 51-yard pass to Michael Crabtree late in the fourth quarter on a fourth-down play to set up a game-tying field goal, the San Francisco 49ers (5-4), with Phil Dawson kicking his second field goal, this time the game winner from 35 yards out in overtime, defeated the New Orleans Saints (4-5) 27-24 on the road on Sunday.  It was linebacker Ahmad Brooks who sacked and stripped Saints quarterback Drew Brees of the football in the extra period, setting up the game-winning three-pointer.  Frank Gore and Carlos Hyde each ran for a first-quarter touchdown for the Niners.

Last-Second FG Sinks Niners

At New Orleans:

Garret Hartley kicked three field goals, including the game-winner from 31 yards out as time expired, lifting the New Orleans Saints (8-2) to a 23-20 Sunday National Football League home win over the San Francisco 49ers (6-4).

A Pair Of Pick-Sixes Help Lift Niners Past Saints

At New Orleans:

Interception returns for touchdowns from Ahmad Brooks (50 yards) and Donte Whitner (42 yards) helped guide the San Francisco 49ers (8-2-1) to a 31-21 Sunday NFL road win over the New Orleans Saints (5-6).

Whacked

This is what happens when you run a bounty operation and then go Fibber McGee to the Comish.

Saints Pull Out Last-Second Win Over Niners

At San Francisco:

Garrett Hartley connected on 37-yard field goal that barely cleared the crossbar as time expired, giving the New Orleans Saints (2-0) a 25-22 road win over the San Francisco 49erd (0-2) on Monday night.

Saints Outlast Vikes In Low-Scoring Season Opener

At New Orleans:

Quarterback Drew Brees completed 27 of 36 passes for 237 yards and a touchdown (29 yards to Devry Henderson) while Pierre Thomas ran one yard for what turned out to be the game-winning score as the New Orleans Saints began defense of their Super Bowl title with a 14-9 home win over the Minnesota Vikings in a rematch of last January's NFC title game as the National Football League launched its' 91st regular season on Thursday night.

As for Brett Favre, he competed 15 of 27 passes for 171 yards and a touchdown (20 yards to Visanthe Shiancoe). 

What's More Compelling?

The official opening of the Saints' title defense---or if Grandpa Brett can stay up?

Dave Dixon, R.I.P.

Dave Dixon, the New Orleans civic leader who was a driving force in bringing professional football to The Crescent City in the form of the New Orleans Saints, as well as the construction of the Louisiana Superdome, and as being the founder of the now-defunct United States Football League, passed away on Sunday at age 87.

WHO DAT? SAINTS WIN SUPER BOWL

At Miami:

Drew Brees, the game's Most Valuable Player, threw for 288 yards and two touchdowns (16 yards to Pierre Thomas in the third quarter and 2 yards to tight end Jeremy Shockey in the fourth), Garrett Hartley kicked a Super Bowl-record three field goals of forty or more yards (46 and 44 yards in the second quarter and 47 yards in the third), and Tracy Porter intercepted a Peyton Manning pass and returned it 74 yards for the final touchdown with 3:12 remaining in regulation time as the New Orleans Saints won the first Super Bowl championship in their 43-year history, defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 on Sunday night.

I Did Not Know

This phrase was said some thirty years before the New Orleans Saints played their first game.



This was an excerpt from a 1937 cartoon entitled "Swing Wedding," produced and directed by Hugh Harman and Rudolph Ising and distributed by MGM.

IT'S OFFICIAL: COLTS VS. SAINTS IN SUPER BOWL XLIV

We've got our Super Bowl entries.

At Indianapolis:

Peyton Manning threw for three touchdowns (to Austin Collie [16 yards]in the second quarter, Pierre Garcon [4 yards] in the third, and Dallas Clark [15 yards] in the fourth) as the Indianapolis Colts erased a second-quarter 11-point deficit to defeat the New York Jets 30-17 Sunday to win the American Football Conference Championship. The Colts are heading for their second Super Bowl in four years.

At New Orleans:

Drew Brees threw for three touchdowns (one of 38 yards to Pierre Thomas in the first quarter [he also ran 9 yards for a score], a 9-yarder in the second quarter to Devery Henderson, and a 5-yarder to Reggie Bush in the fourth) and Garrett Hartley kicked the game-winning field goal with 4:45 expired in the first overtime period as the New Orleans Saints defeated the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 to capture the National Football Conference championship on Sunday. The Saints are heading to the Super Bowl for the first time in their forty-three year history.

The Saints and Colts battle each other on February 7 in Super Bowl XLIV, to be played at Sun Life Stadium in Miami.

Drew And Reggie Help Saints Bury Cards

The National Football League entered its divisional playoff stage on Saturday.

At New Orleans:

Quarterback Drew Brees threw for three touchdowns and Reggie Bush scored two others, one on a 46-yard run and the other on an 83-yard punt return, as the New Orleans Saints hammered the visiting Arizona Cardinals 45-14 Saturday in an NFC divisional playoff.

The Saints will play host to the winner of Sunday's Dallas-Minnesota contest in next Sunday's NFC Championship Game.