New Orleans Saints

Mike Tirico, Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser to Call Four-Game Slate in August

April 3, 2008 -- ESPN will kickoff its 2008 Monday Night Football preseason schedule with the New Orleans Saints at Arizona Cardinals Thursday, August 7 at 8 p.m. ET. ESPN’s commentator team of Mike Tirico (play-by-play) and analysts Ron Jaworski and Tony Kornheiser will call four NFL preseason games during the month of August – three on Mondays and one Thursday – in anticipation of their regular-season debut on Monday, Sept. 8. All preseason games will begin at 8 p.m.    » read more »

Monday Night Football: Wins Night In Key Male Demos

September 25, 2007 -- ESPN’s Sunday NFL Countdown (11 a.m. – 1 p.m. ET) is averaging 2,258,000 households, an increase of 11% compared to the first three weeks of last year’s season. The show – which has seen its audience grow every year since 2001 – is averaging a 2.3 rating, up from 2.2. Among men 18-34, a key demo group, the show is averaging 859,000 impressions, up 33% from 648,000 at this point in 2006.    » read more »

Sep 21, 2007 -- BATON ROUGE - As Saints fans prepare to pack the Superdome for the first New Orleans Saints home game of the 2007 season, Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco today declared "Black and Gold Weekend." Starting today, the proclamation encourages Who Dat fans to wear and display the team's colors through Monday, when the Saints take on the Tennessee Titans live on Monday Night Football.

Saints officials read the Governor's proclamation aloud to fans during today's Black and Gold fan rally in support of the team:    » read more »

September 20, 2007 -- Sunday NFL Countdown Presented by IBM with Chris Berman and analysts Mike Ditka, Tom Jackson, Keyshawn Johnson and Emmitt Smith will preview the day’s NFL matchups Sunday at 11 a.m. ET. Chris Mortensen will also provide headlines and league news, and Steve Young will contribute his weekly Sunday segment – “Young is Restless” – featuring his opinion on the week's hottest topics.    » read more »

- MNF: #1 Among All Networks In Prime Time
- ESPN.com NFL Content: 53 Million Page Views, Up 25% From 2006

September 19, 2007 -- Monday night’s Washington Redskins – Philadelphia Eagles game on ESPN’s Monday Night Football earned a 9.1 rating, ESPN’s best of 2007, boosting ESPN to the top spot among all television networks – broadcast or cable – in prime time. In addition, traffic to ESPN.com’s NFL content showed strong growth over last year’s debut season of MNF.    » read more »

Weekly reports by New Orleans Saints Running Back and Heisman Trophy Winner to air on SIRIUS NFL Radio channel 124

NEW YORK, Aug 14, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- SIRIUS (Nasdaq: SIRI), the Official Satellite Radio Partner of the NFL, announced today that star New Orleans Saints running back and Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush will provide exclusive live weekly reports throughout the 2007 NFL season on SIRIUS NFL Radio channel 124, the only radio channel dedicated to covering the NFL 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.    » read more »