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Saints Quickly Deny Sean Payton-to-Cowboys Rumors

It was the perfect storm ... and it appears to have already blown over. Sean Payton is staying with the Saints, and for now, all the rumors can be put to rest. Payton bought a house in the Dallas area and will move his family there, sparking rumors -- especially in a suddenly panicked New Orleans -- that the Cowboys,...

FanHouse Roundtable: Can the Cowboys Ever Win Again Under Jerry Jones?

Despite his insistence that Wade Phillips would finish out the season as Cowboys coach, last Sunday night's 45-7 embarrassment at the hands of the Packers was simply too much for Jerry Jones to bear. On Monday, the Cowboys owner finally pulled the string on Phillips, firing the beleaguered coach after the telling...

Saints Go Parading Into New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Only a Super Bowl victory parade could upstage Mardi Gras in New Orleans.Carnival floats carrying Saints players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson rolled past tens of thousands of jubilant fans in downtown New Orleans on Tuesday, two days after the 43-year-old franchise won its first NFL...

Saints, Fans Need Attitude Adjustment

MIAMI -- What if they lose? What if the New Orleans Saints fall a victory shy of completing their fairy tale by watching Peyton Manning crush their glass cleats? It's going to happen, by the way, but it won't matter, at least not that much to the Who Dat Nation, whose citizens will continue to worship anything in black,...

Saints and Their City Finally Get a Break

NEW ORLEANS -- I saw men and women laughing through their tears Sunday night, staring at a confetti blizzard on a field where so many games have been blown and, in life's biggest picture, so many lives were lost. It wasn't long ago when the Superdome was darkly symbolic of Hurricane Katrina and its horrors, a home for...

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05/29/12 Tom Benson penns letter in support of the Picayune Source: WWL AM 870 FM 105.3 Saints owner Tom Benson today wrote a letter to Advance.net Chairman Steven Newhouse in support of the Times-Picayune remaining a daily newspaper.
05/21/12 Report: Mickey Loomis to help run NBA's New Orleans... Source: CBS - KTVT CBS 11 - Dallas / Fort Worth TX Solving the all-important question of what Saints general manager Mickey Loomis is going to do when he's suspended for the first eight games of the 2012 season, team owner Tom Benson apparently has given Loomis a nice parting gift.
05/21/12 NFC South Morning Jog: Tom Benson Assured Fans Drew... Source: Bleacher Report Each morning, I like to start the day off with a workoutâusually a morning jog.
05/20/12 Benson, McAllister selected to Saints' Hall Source: The Daily News - Bogalusa LA To hear former New Orleans Saints running back Deuce McAllister tell it Friday, it was only fitting that he would be elected to the Saints Hall of Fame along with team owner Tom Benson.
05/20/12 Suspended Saints GM to oversee Hornets too Source: USA Today Mickey Loomis will be out of a job for the first half of the NFL season, but the Saints general manager may keep himself busy running the NBA's New Orleans Hornets.

Background on Tom benson

Tom Benson (born 1927) is the owner of the New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Hornets. He is currently the owner of several automobile dealerships in the Greater New Orleans and San Antonio areas.

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