Sean Payton pulling all the right strings for a young, bold Saints team dancing through playoffs
(WorldNews Sport)

For the better part of three seasons, as the New Orleans Saints stumbled to 7-9 and rumors swirled about the potential departure of Sean Payton to greener NFL pastures, the pundits kept saying and writing the same thing. Perhaps Payton`s message had gone stale. A well-worn NFL cliché, steeped in the belief that a decade is too long for any coach to stay put in one place, backed up by the fact that Payton`s mentor, Bill Parcells, had a permanent case of wanderlust. Perhaps Payton, the thinking went, needed a fresh start to find a new source of energy. The counterpoint hit the Internet this week. There`s the 54-year-old Payton, bounding into the middle of a victorious playoff locker room and...