New Orleans Saints’ Tom Benson basking in Super Bowl glow

By Nakia Hogan, The Times-Picayune

February 05, 2010, 6:00AM

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.

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One Response to “New Orleans Saints’ Tom Benson basking in Super Bowl glow”

megan says:

February 5, 2010 at 7:19 am

the saints will take it all the way.some people say that the saints will be cryin. well they got it all backwards the colts that will be the ones crying.so i have a message for the colts WHO DAT baby…..