They beat the 12 – 3 New Orleans Saints, 44 – 10, at the Louisiana Superdome in the Wild Card Playoff game.

In week 17, the Saints defeated division rivals Carolina ; however, the Saints needed other results to break their way and when the St. Louis Rams beat the New York Jets the Saints were eliminated despite having beaten the Rams, who finished with the same record.

After the first-round bye, the Saints beat the Philadelphia Eagles 27 – 24 in the Superdome in the 2006 Divisional Playoffs.

In the next seven weeks the Saints beat talented teams such as the eventual Super Bowl XLVI champion New York Giants, Detroit Lions, and Atlanta Falcons, bringing their season record to 12-3.

New Orleans Saints beat the Detroit Lions in the 2011 NFC wild-card playoff game 45-28.

* October 23 – in a game where the New Orleans Saints beat the Los Angeles Rams 37-34 Robert Bailey of the Rams sets the NFL record for longest punt return ( 103 yards ) and Tyrone Hughes of the Saints sets the NFL single game record for kickoff return yards ( 304 ) and most return yards ( 347 ) and ties the single game record for kickoff returns returned for touchdown ( 2 ).

* The New Jersey Saints beat the Washington Wave 17 – 16 to win the Eagle Pro Box Lacrosse League Championship.

During the night of March 24, 1832, Joseph Smith, Jr .— leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints — was dragged from his home by a group of men who stripped and beat him before tarring and feathering him.

The Cats beat the St. Paul Saints 3 games to 2 in the championship series.

On February 7, 2010, the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 to win Super Bowl XLIV.

On 2 May 2009, Saints beat Greenock Morton 3 – 1 at McDiarmid Park to clinch the First Division title and a return to the Premier League after a seven-year absence.

In 1999 – 2000, the club became a Public Limited Company ( Plc ) and shares were issued to the public ; in this season the Saints lost in the Tetley's Bitter Cup Final to Wasps, but beat Munster 9 – 8 in the European Cup Final to win their first major trophy.

He was a big and brave striker and scored four crucial goals as Saints successfully beat the drop, finishing in 16th position.

Noel Pidding The first grade side had routed Canterbury-Bankstown, the minor premiers, in a semi-final and then beat Easts in the final but as had happened in 1930, Canterbury exercised their right as minor premiers to issue a challenge and beat Saints in a Grand final.

The Rams beat the Saints for the final playoff spot in week 16, 26-24 on Mike Lansford's 42-yard field goal with 00: 02 to play.

Who dat say dey gonna beat dem Saints?

They beat the Phoenix Roadrunners and the Minnesota Fighting Saints to reach the finals, where they were swept in four games by the Gordie Howe-led Houston Aeros.

Although not challenging for major honours, Cormack enjoyed yet another cup win, this time it was the Anglo-Scottish Cup in 1978, City met St. Mirren in the two-legged final, the first leg was at Love Street with City beating their hosts 2 – 1 with Cormack scoring the winner, the Saints could not beat City at Ashton Gate only managing a 1 – 1 draw, the draw meant that City's narrow victory in Scotland was enough to earn them a 3 – 2 aggregate win and, of course, the trophy.

Though the Bears beat the New Orleans Saints to win the NFC Championship, the Indianapolis Colts beat the Bears in Super Bowl XLI.

Although the Panthers had defeated the 7-8 Packers two weeks prior, due to the NFL's convoluted tiebreaker rules they needed to beat the Saints by 18 points more than the Packers were to beat the Cardinals in their game at Lambeau ( assuming the Packers were to win ).

Sharp had previously snubbed Southampton's interest in the 2011 transfer window, and promotion favourites Leicester in January, and chose to sell his service to the Saints where promotion to the Premier League seemed most likely.

The home leg of the South Coast Derby between Southampton and Pompey came on Saturday 7th, where table topping Saints were clear favourites against Portsmouth who sat in 23rd place and seriously threatened by relegation.

In the week leading up to the game, City were boosted by the return of former Saints favourites Ben Martin and Hassan Sulaiman, who joined other key players Pete Smith, Paul Bastock and Drew Roberts in the new squad.

In March 2010, the Saints won the LV = Cup final against Gloucester Rugby 30 – 24, gaining them their fourth piece of silverware in three years, and a place in the following season's Heineken Cup.

A behind-the-play incident involving Nathan Burke of St Kilda during the Cats ' Elimination Final triumph over the Saints saw Ablett suspended by the AFL Tribunal for two weeks, with Geelong subsequently losing to the season's two eventual Grand Finalists – Hawthorn in the 2nd Semi-Final and West Coast at Waverley Park in the Preliminary Final – and prematurely ending Ablett's year.

While they reached the final of the that season's European Challenge Cup, losing to Northampton Saints, they spent most of the season hovering close to the drop zone.

Their finishing position in the league meant Saints had qualified for the 1999 – 00 UEFA Cup campaign.

The stadium hosted European football in September 2003, when the Saints faced Romanian side Steaua Bucharest in the first round of the UEFA Cup.

In 2003, Saints went on to reach the FA Cup Final and qualified for the UEFA Cup for the first time in nearly 20 years.

Similar to the 2010 season, the Saints were near the top of the table for the most part of the season in 2011, but their title challenge petered out towards the end of the season and the Saints finished fourth meaning they would participate in UEFA Europa League qualifiers in the 2012 season.

The Saints went on to finish third behind the Rangers and Celtic in the Scottish Premier League that season, qualifying for the 1999 – 2000 UEFA Cup.

Under Lawrie McMenemy's management, Saints started to rebuild in Division 2, capturing players such as Peter Osgood, Jim McCalliog, Jim Steele and Peter Rodrigues ( captain ) and what many people feel was the team's greatest moment ( to date ) came in 1976, when they reached the FA Cup Final, playing Manchester United at Wembley, and surprised all observers by beating much-fancied United 1 – 0 thanks to a goal from Bobby Stokes.

Although Keegan's Southampton career only lasted two years, Saints fielded an attractive side also containing Alan Ball, prolific scorer of goals Ted MacDougall, ( who still holds the record for the largest number of goals in an FA Cup game – 9 – for Bournemouth against Margate in an 11 – 0 win ), MacDougall's strike partner at Bournemouth and Norwich Phil Boyer, club stalwart Mick Channon and Charlie George and in 1980 – 81 they scored 76 goals, finishing in sixth place, then their highest league finish.

In six games of qualifying for the 1970 World Cup " The beasts of the Saldanha " played with six Saints players: Carlos Alberto, Djalma Dias, Joel Campbell, Rildo, Pelé and Edu.

There have been two appearances in the final of the League Cup, losing first to Celtic 1 – 0 in 1969 and 2 – 1 to Rangers in 1998, with Canadian internationalist Nick Dasovic scoring for Saints, who have yet to reach a Scottish Cup final.

Saints finished 1990 – 91 in 7th place, but their season was buoyed by an appearance in the Scottish Cup semi-finals, in which they lost to Dundee United.

In Sturrock's first full season in charge, Saints finished 5th in the First Division and reached the quarter-finals of the League Cup.

Saints also reached the final of the League Cup and the semi-finals of the Scottish Cup in that season, losing to Rangers in both competitions.

On 31 January 2007, Saints were knocked out of the League Cup at the semi-finals stage by Hibs.

Saints next game, the Challenge Cup Final against Dunfermline three days later, saw them win their first cup since the Scottish Consolation Cup of 1911, with a 3 – 2 scoreline.

The club won its first piece of silverware in 2002 by beating Northampton Saints in the Powergen Cup final at Twickenham.

However, he immediately returned to the Premier League with Southampton and guided the " Saints " to the 2003 FA Cup Final – where they lost 1 – 0 to Arsenal.

The Saints progressed further in 2002 – 03 when they finished eighth and reached the FA Cup Final, where they lost 1 – 0 to Arsenal.

The Saints also reached the final of the 2010 – 11 Heineken Cup and the 2011-12 LV Cup.

The Saints would again compete in the 2006 – 07 Heineken Cup.

Saints also went undefeated into the final of the Heineken Cup, where they were beaten by Leinster 33-22, at the Millennium Stadium after a second half collapse.

He returned to play with Munster Rugby in the 1999-2000 season and played in the European Rugby Cup final that Munster Rugby lost to Northampton Saints 9-8 in Twickenham Stadium before returning to Harlequins.