Saints Football Party Ideas

Ask guests to wear their all-time favorite Saints player's jersey.

Show your team spirit by hosting a New Orleans Saints football party for your fellow fans, whether they are adults or children. From the black and gold invitations to the halftime games, keep your guests entertained until the very last touchdown. Stock up on the food and drink, as well as the Saints-themed party favors and game prizes for guests to take home as mementos.

Invitations

Print New Orleans football helmets on card stock and write the party details on the back of each helmet. Decorate the invitation envelopes with Saints football stickers. If you plan long enough ahead, order Saints invitations online. Or, get creative and write the party details on small black plastic footballs with a gold paint pen, or use a black paint pen on gold footballs. Hand-deliver those invitations to your party guests.

Decorations

In the Saints' lean years, fans covered their faces at the Superdome.

Decorate the party area with black and gold streamers, balloons and banners. New Orleans Saints themed tableware is available online. Make your own life-size New Orleans Saints players using cardboard and paint. Basic white helmets are perfect for painting with the Saints logo and using as table centerpieces or balloon weights. Hang a large banner with the motto of the Saints, “Who Dat?” Or, pay homage to the highs and lows of Saints history and display a replica Lombardi Trophy to signify the franchise's Super Bowl XLIV victory or decorate a brown paper bag to recall when those lovable losers were known in their city as the 'Aints.

Food

Put out the traditional game-day snacks to go with the Louisiana Cajun food.

Serve Cajun food to celebrate traditional New Orleans fare. Include cheese straws, sugared pecans, fried onion straws, crab cakes, shrimp and gumbo. Create an oyster bar with fried, raw and baked oysters. For the kids and the traditionalists, bring out the chips, dips, a football-shaped cheese ball, chicken wings, football cupcakes and cookies. Use football and helmet-shaped cookie cutters to make the cookies. Alternatively, use a shirt-shaped cookie cutter to make a referee shirt and decorate with black and white icing.

Games

Is Reggie Bush the Saints' all-time rushing leader? No.

Play football bingo or Saints trivia during half time. Make bingo cards with words like referee, New Orleans, football, kickoff, Saints, tailgate, halftime and quarterback. The first player to bingo and to say “Who Dat?” wins the game. Divide your guests into two teams for a trivia contest and ask each team questions about the New Orleans Saints. Each team earns one point for each correct answer; give Saints-themed prizes to the winning team. Ask questions like “Who is the team's all-time leading rusher?” or “Who is the backup quarterback?”

References

• Theme A Party: New Orleans Saints Football Party
• Party 411: Football Party Ideas
• Great Birthday Party Ideas: Football Party Ideas and Football Birthday Party Ideas