Kent Kramer, tight end on first New Orleans Saints team, dies at 79

Kramer: 'New Orleans is a working man's town, and we were guys bringing our lunch pail, coming to work, and we never stopped fighting'

By Peter Finney Jr.

Special to the New Orleans Saints

Along with 80,879 other people inside Tulane Stadium on Sunday, Sept. 17, 1967, New Orleans Saints second-year tight end Kent Kramer, acquired seven months earlier