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NFL emails reveal extent of Saints' damage control for clergy sex abuse crisis

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — As New Orleans church leaders braced for the fallout from publishing a list of predatory Catholic priests, they turned to an unlikely ally: the front office of the city’s NFL franchise.

What followed was a months-long, crisis-communications blitz orchestrated by the New Orleans Saints’ president and other top team officials, according to hundreds of internal emails obtained by The Associated Press.

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  • Definitely not the story I expected to see on Monday of Super Bowl week, but wow. I understand people love their religion, but leveraging an NFL franchise to do PR work for a child rape syndicate the Catholic Church, seems like a pretty risky move from a business standpoint.