<Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article or section appears to be slanted towards recent events . Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and add more content related to non-recent events . (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> </Table> <Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article or section appears to be slanted towards recent events . Please try to keep recent events in historical perspective and add more content related to non-recent events . (January 2015) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> First the brainchild of local sports entrepreneur Dave Dixon, who later built the Louisiana Superdome and founded the USFL, the Saints were actually secretly born in a backroom deal brought about by U.S. Congressman Hale Boggs, U.S. Senator Russell Long, and NFL Commissioner Pete Rozelle . The NFL needed congressional approval of the proposed AFL--NFL merger . Dixon and a local civic group had been seeking an NFL franchise for over five years and had hosted record crowds for NFL exhibition games . To seal the merger, Rozelle arrived in New Orleans within a week, and announced on November 1, 1966, that the NFL officially had awarded the city of New Orleans an NFL franchise . The team was named for the great jazz song most identified with New Orleans--"When the Saints Go Marching In", and it was no coincidence that the franchise's official birth was announced on November 1, which is the Catholic All Saints' Day . When the deal was reached a week earlier, Dixon strongly suggested to Rozelle that the announcement be delayed until then . Dixon told an interviewer that he even cleared the name with New Orleans' Archbishop Philip M. Hannan: "He thought it would be a good idea . He had an idea the team was going to need all the help it could get ." </P> <P> Boggs' Congressional committee in turn quickly approved the NFL merger . John W. Mecom Jr., a young oilman from Houston, became the team's first majority stockholder . The team's colors, black and gold, symbolized both Mecom's and New Orleans' strong ties to the oil industry . Trumpeter Al Hirt was part owner of the team, and his rendition of "When the Saints Go Marching In" was made the official fight song . </P>

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