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New Orleans Saints could be least despised champ on record

Peter Finney, Times-Picayune

The story begins, “How about a two-dat?”

The New Orleans Saints Super Bowl win was almost universally liked.

It’s a preview on the 2010 New Orleans Saints that caught my eye, one in which Bruce Marshall, a Las Vegas-based NFL pundit, tells us he could not recall “a more refreshing sporting development” than the storybook journey Sean Payton’s football team traveled last season.

Marshall said it was accompanied by “a joie de vivre rarely seen in the button-down world of today’s NFL, where teams often look and play alike and title winners are frequently rewarded for ruthless and often colorless efficiency.”

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