As Super Bowl XLIV champs, the Saints have already earned the title of best team in the NFL. Now, in the the all-important open market election, where votes are cast with each dollar spent on team caps and player jerseys, the Saints can also lay claim to being the NFL's most popular team, at least as far as team merchandising goes. CNBC is reporting that the Saints top the list of teams that sold the most licensed product in the league on NFLshop.com for the most recent fiscal year, which runs from April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010. It was the first time in franchise history the team had ever ranked in the top 10 in sales.
Saints merchandise was followed by the Steelers, the Cowboys and Vikings on the list. The Indianapolis Colts, the Saints Super Bowl opponents this year, ranked fifth. Brett Favre topped the list of NFL player jerseys sold, followed by the Saints' Drew Brees and the Colts' Peyton Manning.
In rendering his ruling, District Judge John Trahan all but called the real estate developer a liar for inconsistencies in his accounts of what prompted him to punch a school teacher unconscious.
Frank’s Casing Crew, now doing business as Frank’s International, will make its final appearance on ABiz’s list of the Top 50 Privately Held Companies in Acadiana this year, and once again it will likely be at the top with more than $1 billion in annual revenues. The 75-year-old company specializing in tubular fabrication and installation services to the oil and gas industry plans to offer shares of its stock to the public for the first time.
The defeat, or rather highjacking of House Bill 420 in the final days of this year's Legislative Session, say Reps. Vincent Pierre and Terry Landry, is the result of the propaganda spread by one unidentified local media outlet and an unnamed former state Representative, but nothing to do with the original legislation's lack of checks, balances or details.
City-Parish Council Chairman Brandon Shelvin heaped steady doses of condescending ire on a Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Louisiana executive while failing to reveal his financial ties to a BC/BS rival.
Abbeville native David Primeaux was a popular professor until his death late last year, and while he was successful at camouflaging a dark past, he couldn’t outlive it.
Tehmi Chassion’s failure to recuse himself in the school board’s selection of a group health benefits provider raises ‘serious questions’ on whether he violated state ethics law.
He’s a singer. A songwriter. A piano man. A family man. He’s even got his own Wikipedia entry. He’s David Egan. And he knows ancient secrets about the monolithic stones of Stonehenge that he’s not willing to share.
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