New Orleans Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis Named NFL Executive of the Year!

NFL Owners and Executives Vote Him In, Sweeping Over Handful of Other Vote-Getters

The George Young NFL Executive of the Year award presented annually by The Sporting News was won by New Orleans Saints General Manager Mickey Loomis for the 2007 NFL Football Season. "The satisfaction we derive is from helping in the recovery of people in our region," said Saints GM Mickey Loomis. For a man whose promotion into the GM position was more that he had to jump into it, and do so with out seeming as if he was throwing rocks inside of the glass building the organization had become by that point, he sure has come a long way.

After the firing of then General Manager Randy Mueller by New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson on May 9th, 2002 at the end of the 2001-2002 season because of a supposed "difference in style" between them, when we all knew it was because Benson and Mueller had some sharp words for each other, Dir. of Operations Mickey Loomis not only had to take over a team that Randy Mueller had built into a super bowl caliber team, but had to do so in the midst of a team that had gone through some big locker room problems and underachievement on the field during the year before. The team had a complete meltdown at the end of the year, getting blown-out of their last four games. Let's not get into the locker room problems during the year except to say, they were real bad. And Tom Benson was piping mad. The GM was under the gun, Coach Jim Haslet was under the gun for not playing a healthy and capable Jake Delhomme instead of injured Aaron Brooks and thus possibly getting the team into the playoffs. And everyone from Benson, the whole Saints organization, and the fans were in complete utter amazement of what had become of the team. Even the state and the city were in the act as there was always controversy over who's giving and who's getting between Benson, the state, and the city almost ever since he's owned the Saints. And that year had more than its fair share. The team was in a complete disarray. And so the announcement was made relatively quickly that Mickey Loomis would assume the General Manager position.