New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton shortened practice by about 20 minutes Thursday in Coral Gables, Fla., trying to ensure that his players will be fresh for Super Bowl XLIV.
Temperatures were close to 80 degrees when the Saints began practice at the University of Miami. Players removed their shoulder pads for the last 40 minutes of the workout.
The Saints will have had two weeks to prepare for Sunday’s game against the Indianapolis Colts, so Payton said he’s not so much concerned about limiting the length of practice as he is with how good his players look when they’re on the field.
“We’re in the second week now and we can do that (shorten practice),” Payton said. “It was a little warm out here. I think you have to be a little careful. Some guys would worry about getting all the plays in. All I was concerned about was getting good work in, and we accomplished that.”
By David Nielsen
Scripps Howard News Service Archive
Editor’s note: For the 21st straight year, our friends at Scripps Howard News Service have spanned the globe to get the Super Bowl picks from some of today’s hottest stars. And yesterday’s. And a few from a couple of days ago. The winner gets the Scripps Howard Super Sage Award trophy.
Out of the more than 100 famous folks who made predictions, 62 believe that the Indianapolis Colts will win Super Bowl XLIV, and 41 picked the New Orleans Saints.
The defending champ, actress and former Miss Panama Patricia De Leon, is going with the Saints — and has a breakdown of the score if it rains and if it doesn’t.
Below are picks from athletes, entertainers, politicians, TV stars — even a former director of the CIA.
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For example….
SHAQUILLE O’NEAL
Cleveland Cavaliers basketball star
New Orleans, 34-23. This is going to be very special for the great people of New Orleans and Louisiana. The Saints have the talent and the resilience to win. Who Dat?
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MIAMI – The excitement has been mounting in the 82-year-old New Orleans Saints owner for some time.
A quarter-century worth of excitement and passion is raring to burst out of Tom Benson.
For the first time in his 25 years of owning the Saints, he can truly talk about being a champion.
The once moribund Saints are in the Super Bowl, and while he hasn’t thrown a single pass or made one play call, Benson is the man who has made the critical decisions in lifting a franchise from the NFL basement to the penthouse.
MIAMI – In the on-field chess game that will take place Sunday in Super Bowl XLIV, New Orleans Saints Coach Sean Payton likely will try to offer the Indianapolis Colts something they haven’t yet seen on video.
A difficult task, to be sure, but one thing is probably certain: Indianapolis will see a game plan that involves a great deal of motion from receivers and backs.
Movement has been a staple of Payton’s play-calling since he joined the Saints in 2006, and a primary reason why New Orleans has become one of the most productive and high-scoring offenses in the NFL.
Chuck Foreman and some members of the Who Dat Nation !
A few members of the Who Dat Nation went to the NFL Legends 5th Annual Bowling Pins for Charity Classic tonight and had the chance to bowl with a great member of the NFL, Chuck Foreman !
Chuck was a little upset that his Vikings did not make it to the Super Bowl but did say he was going to cheer for the Saints, a fellow NFC team.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has landed himself a ticket to the Super Bowl – and the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Nagin expressed shock last week that as the city’s chief executive, he only had been offered the option to buy tickets in a “nosebleed section” of Sun Life Stadium in Miami, where the Saints make their Super Bowl debut Sunday.
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