Saints owe New Orleans a season to say good-bye (an old headline)

You can blame the SA mayor all you want, but it was Benson who was behind the scenes (and sometimes in front) trying desperately to make that move happen. Were it not for a commissioner the team would have been gone.

Tags might not have been the greatest leader of the NFL in all things, but he was smart in this one. With labor negotiations already on-going, allowing the Saints to move strictly for dollar signs would have been a public relations disaster, turning the public against the owners.

Politics is what got NO the Saints on the first place, and politics is what kept them in NO.