{"id":316654,"date":"2025-08-25T15:22:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/316654\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T15:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T15:22:13","slug":"sean-payton-honored-a-new-orleans-icon-after-the-broncos-win-saints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/316654\/","title":{"rendered":"Sean Payton honored a New Orleans icon after the Broncos win | Saints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton didn\u2019t celebrate his team&#8217;s preseason win against the New Orleans Saints on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he took the time after the 28-19 victory against his former team to celebrate one of New Orleans\u2019 favorite sons.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to the airport after leaving the Superdome, Payton took the Broncos\u2019 entire six-bus, 180-person travel party to Mount Olivet Cemetery in Gentilly to recognize Fats Domino and pay respects to the musical legend, who died in 2017 at age 89.<\/p>\n<p>Broncos players and coaches visited Domino\u2019s tomb on the first floor of the historic mausoleum and displayed a floral arrangement, highlighted with flowers in the team\u2019s orange and navy blue colors.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Had to make one stop leaving <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nola?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#Nola<\/a> yesterday.<br \/>Honoring the late great Fats Domino. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/svgrV4us4O\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/svgrV4us4O<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sean Payton (@SeanPayton) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanPayton\/status\/1959774796172116437?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The visit was the offshoot of a Broncos\u2019 game-week tradition. To set the tone for the week ahead, the Broncos play music representative of the city of the Broncos\u2019 upcoming opponent. At the meeting, Payton played two of Domino\u2019s biggest hits, \u201cAin\u2019t That a Shame\u201d and \u201cBlueberry Hill,\u201d and asked his players and coaches how many of them had heard of the legendary pianist, who was born and raised in the Lower 9th Ward neighborhood of New Orleans. Only a handful of people in the room raised their hand, spurring Payton to schedule the visit for the Broncos\u2019 trip to New Orleans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt hit me, but it also upset me, relative to this icon, who was born in this city,\u201d Payton said to the players and coaches at the cemetery in a video of the visit posted on his social media account. \u201cWe should know who Fats Domino is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The visit was originally scheduled to occur on the day before the game, but it was delayed until Saturday afternoon after the team\u2019s charter flight to New Orleans on Friday afternoon arrived later than expected.<\/p>\n<p>Payton is in his third year as the head coach of the Broncos. He coached the Saints from 2006 to 2020, leading the club to its only Super Bowl championship in 2009.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Denver Broncos head coach Sean Payton didn\u2019t celebrate his team&#8217;s preseason win against the New Orleans Saints on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316655,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,4095,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-316654","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-hardwall","10":"tag-new-orleans","11":"tag-new-orleans-saints","12":"tag-neworleans","13":"tag-neworleanssaints","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115090092541151499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316654\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}