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Inside the Game presented by Classic Auto Wash: Saints-Colts connections

New Orleans Head coach Sean Payton served on the Indiana State coaching staff from 1990-91. Payton and Colts Secondary Coach Mike Gilhammer served on the same offensive staff with the New York Giants from 1999-2000...New Orleans Assistant head coach/linebackers Joe Vitt entered the NFL coaching ranks with the Baltimore Colts as their asst. strength/quality control coach from 1979-81...Saints QB Drew Brees enjoyed an honor filled career at Purdue from 1997-2000, including being a Heisman Trophy finalist in 1999 and 2000. Brees won the Maxwell Award as the nation’s outstanding player in 2000 and left the Boilermakers as the Big Ten and school’s alltime leader in passing yards (11,792), touchdown passes (90), total yards (12,693), completion percentage (.