Head Coach Sean Payton

        Sean Payton is the current head coach of the New Orleans Saints. Payton was a quarterback at Naperville Central High School and Eastern Illinois University and played quarterback for the Chicago Bruisers and Pittsburgh Gladiators during the inaugural season of the Arena Football League. He began his coaching career as offensive assistant for San Diego State University football and has also had several assistant coaching positions in collegiate and NFL teams. He was the quarterbacks coach for the Philadelphia Eagles before being hired as the quarterback coach for the New York Giants. Eventually he was promoted to offensive coordinator in 2000. He also worked as quarterback coach and assistant head coach/passing game coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys. Payton received his first head coaching job in 2006 with the New Orleans Saints. The Saints made the NFL playoffs for the first time in six years since Hurricane Katrina under Payton.  During the same year, he won the AP NFL Coach of the Year Award because of the teams success. Following the 2009 season, the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl championship. In June 2010 Payton published a book named Home Team: Coaching the Saints and New Orleans Back to Life. The book was ranked #8 on the non-fiction bestseller list of The New York Times. Payton' said that his motive for this book was "not to write another winning-on-the-field book or about modern-day leadership, but a book about the stories, ones that you sit around and tell your friends." this story is a perfect reflection of Sean Payton's journey and what he has done for the world of football.