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Saints win 1st playoff game outdoors, in cold vs. Eagles
USA Today
PHILADELPHIA – The Saints brought their high-flying offense to Philadelphia in search of the franchise’s first road playoff victory, but it was an old-fashioned power running game – and the leg of Shayne Graham – that got the job done.
Mark Ingram rushed for 97 yards and a touchdown and Graham kicked four field goals, including the game winner from 32 yards as time expired, to lift New Orleans to a thrilling 26-24 victory over the Eagles at Lincoln Financial Field on Saturday night.
Full story: USA Today
Seahawks fans set off seismometer with jumping, cheering
Fox News
SEATTLE – A University of Washington earth sciences professor says the legendary noisemaking of Seattle Seahawks’ hometown fans registered on a nearby seismometer with roughly the same energy as a magnitude 1 or 2 earthquake during Seattle’s 34-7 Monday night victory over the New Orleans Saints.
John Vidale is also director of the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network. He says it’s hard to compare the fans’ half minute of stomping, jumping and shouting during a first quarter fumble return for a touchdown to the quick “pop” of a small earthquake. Still he says, “the energy is very roughly the same.”
The UW seismometer in question is located near CenturyLink Field.
Vidale says it also recorded “three or four more good bursts,” always coinciding with Seahawks’ touchdowns.
Full story: Fox News
Former Oilers coach Bum Phillips dies at 90
Yahoo! Sports
HOUSTON (AP) — Bum Phillips, the folksy Texas football icon who coached the Houston Oilers during their Luv Ya Blue heyday and also led the New Orleans Saints, died Friday. He was 90.
“Bum is gone to Heaven,” son Wade Phillips tweeted Friday night. “Loved and will be missed by all — great Dad, Coach, and Christian.”
Phillips died at his ranch in Goliad.
Wade Phillips is the Houston Texans’ defensive coordinator.
Full story: Yahoo! Sports
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