"The highprofile events and the success and stature of the building's primary tenant the Saints are expected to help the marketability of MercedesBenz, which has plans to unveil a new fleet of automobiles that cater to a wideranging audience. Said Mercedes CEO Ernst Lieb at a press conference announcing the deal: "This is tremendous for us. We are basically looking at, 'Where are our customers, where are we today selling our cars,' and we have cars starting at $31,000.With rules that favouroffences, especially passing games, and a stronger emphasis on calling pass interference and holding on defensive players, the NFL has become even more of a quarterbacks league. Brandt notes that in last week's divisional playoffs, the average points scored was 69. Teams scoring 28 points would not have won any games; in the 2011 playoffs, 28 points would have won three of the four contests..

Football fans of all political persuasions are seething over a monumentally bad call