How are Hollywood blockbusters financed? Only parties that polled over 5 percent in at least one electorate are included. In 2009, the Saints wore the black pants only once, beating St. Louis 28-23. They wore the white jerseys/gold pants combination during the Super Bowl XLIV victory over the Indianapolis Colts. In 2002, the Saints wore black pants with their white jerseys (except for the final road game, a 20-13 loss in Cincinnati when they went back to the gold pants), and gold pants with their black jerseys, a gold alternate jersey, and a 1967-style throwback uniform, complete with an accurate 1967-era helmet which featured a larger fleur-de-lis, a darker shade of gold and grey facemasks. Because of the metallic gold's bright color, the gold jerseys were considered the "light" jersey in the game, so the Vikings wore their purple home jerseys as the "dark" colored team. White jersey tops had old gold numbers with black trim along with gold and black sleeve stripes (a nod to the team's late 1960s uniforms). However, the 2011 throwbacks use the current helmet, meaning the shades of gold on the helmet and jersey do not match.
The Saints lost that game 31-26. During the 1981-82 seasons (Bum Phillips' first two seasons as coach), the team wore white jerseys with black pants at home, but reverted to the black jerseys and white pants for 1983. They reverted to wearing gold pants with both their black and white jerseys in 1986 under new coach Jim E. Mora. In 2001, they wore their white jerseys in the first six home games. From 1986 through 1995, the sleeves of the jerseys and sides of the pants featured a logo with a fleur-de-lis inside an outline of the state of Louisiana (with the location of New Orleans marked with a star in the state outline). Except for minor modifications, the Saints' logo and uniforms have basically remained the same since the club debuted in 1967. The team's logo is a fleur-de-lis (a symbol of the City of New Orleans and of France's Royal Family, which included the House of Bourbon), while its uniform design consists of gold helmets, gold pants, and either black or white jerseys. In 2022, the Saints unveiled an alternate black helmet, featuring a gold fleur-de-lis on each side and a triangle pattern of tiny gold fleur-de-lis logos.
From 1996 through 1998, the Saints returned to gold numbers on both the white and black jerseys, but complaints about the numbers on the white jerseys being too difficult to read forced the numbers on the white jerseys to be changed to black breaking news in england 1999. The Saints wore black pants with a wide gold stripe with their white jerseys in 1999, but following a 3-13 season and the dismissal of coach Mike Ditka, the black pants were mothballed by new coach Jim Haslett. But one season later, they stopped using the alternates and again reverted to wearing gold pants with both their black and white jerseys. After 2015, a season in which the gold pants were donned 10 times, the Saints only wore them sporadically in the regular season, though they were still used regularly in the preseason. The team wore black helmets during the 1969 preseason, but NFL commissioner Pete Rozelle barred the Saints from using the helmets during the regular season, since Mecom did not notify the league office of the change. The NFL office, however, informed him that his proposed combination too closely resembled that worn by the San Diego Chargers. Drew Brees also tied the NFL record for touchdown passes in a game with 7, coming against the New York Giants.
Starting in week 13 of the 2006 season, the Saints wore black pants with the black jerseys against the San Francisco 49ers (restoring them after a four-season absence), and in a Week 16 game in The Meadowlands against the New York Giants (a 30-7 Saints win), the Saints wore the black pants with their road white jerseys. In 2000, the Saints won their first playoff game as they hosted the St. Louis Rams, and after having a better road record than home record, they wore their white jerseys, and won 31-28 over the defending champion Rams. Dave Bassett succeeded in getting Nottingham Forest promoted back to the Premiership at the first time of asking. Benson's wife Gayle Benson succeeded him as the owner of the Saints and the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans. Meredith learns (along with the viewers) that Derek has a wife. During the 2023 season, The Saints brought in a new quarterback in Derek Carr hoping that he would solidify the position. Following Drew Brees's retirement, the Saints had a revolving door at quarterback in the 2021 season with Trevor Siemian, Jameis Winston, Taysom Hill, and Ian Book starting over the course of the year.