Pope Francis seemed to inadvertently bless the New Orleans Saints — which couldn't come at a better time, as the NFL team just excommunicated their head coach. The head of the Catholic Church posted to X on Tuesday morning: “The #Saints are precious ...

The Saints have lost seven straight, including Sunday’s 23-22 defeat against the Carolina Panthers. That was the straw that broke the camel’s back as the New Orleans Saints would go on to fire head coach Dennis Allen. Pope Francis may have accidentally blessed the team after that move.

Pope Francis appeared to accidentally tout an NFL team in a Tuesday social media post shortly after the squad dismissed its head coach. In a Tuesday morning post on X, the pope encouraged his followers to take lessons from the lives of Catholic “#Saints” — “precious pearls,

Derek Carr. That man is going through it today. First of all, he made NFL history in the worst kind of way. After falling to the lowly Carolina Panthers (!!!!) on Sunday, Carr is the first quarterback in league history to lose to 31 different teams.

Carr went into the 2024 season with losses to 30 different teams and he actually could have set the record in Week 1 when the Saints played the Panthers, but New Orleans came out