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The state of Louisiana itself actually had a direct impact on several early high school national crowns as the Louisiana Sports Association hosted a series of games at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge called the "National High School Championship" in 1938 and 1939, [222] the latter of which included an appearance by Louisiana's own Baton Rouge High ...
Weeks 3 through 10 were canceled, but an additional week was added to make a 9-game schedule; the rescheduled week consisted of 12 intradivision games and two intraconference games (Jets-Chiefs, Cowboys-Vikings). The 1982 playoff matchups were determined by conference standings only.
The American Professional Football Association is reorganized at Akron, Ohio on April 30, 1921, with Joe F. Carr elected as new league president. [1] With the low entry barrier of a $100 membership fee, the number of teams balloons to 21. [1]
The New Orleans Saints have played their home games at the Caesars Superdome since 1975. The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. They are a member of the South Division of the National Football Conference (NFC) in the National Football League (NFL). The NFL awarded the city of New Orleans the sixteenth franchise in the league on ...
The Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame (LHOF) is an hall of fame exhibit that honors the accomplishments of athletes, coaches and other sports figures in the U.S. state of Louisiana. Located in a facility in the downtown historic district of the city of Natchitoches , the LHOF is part of the broader Louisiana Sports Hall of Fame & Northwest ...
Demetrius Byrd, WR Drafted in the 7th round of the 2009 NFL draft by the San Diego Chargers. Brett Helms, C Signed with the Houston Texans as a rookie free agent. Quinn Johnson, FB Drafted in the 5th round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers. Herman Johnson, OG Drafted in the 5th round of the 2009 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals ...
The city of New Orleans was awarded an NFL franchise on November 1, 1966, [1] thanks to a combination of local activism (most notably by David Dixon and by members of the local media, such as New Orleans States-Item sports editor Crozet Duplantier) and political force (Senator Russell Long and Congressman Hale Boggs, who made approval of the NFL-AFL merger conditional on the awarding of a ...
The 2009 season featured a Friday night game on December 25, as the Thursday that week was Christmas Eve, and the NFL tried not to schedule games that night in deference to the holiday (a lone exception being a Monday Night Football game in 2007 due to scheduling conflicts caused by ESPN's broadcast contracts). Also, the start times were pushed ...