The Saints won't be able to wear their home jerseys against the Eagles because of a golf bet between their head coaches

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November 15, 2018 12:43 AM

Sean Payton may have lost the bet, but Saints fans won the chance to see their team rock the popular all-white color rush jerseys at home.

Mercedes-Benz Superdome for their Week 11 matchup Sunday, but t

The New Orleans Saints' Week 11 matchup with the reigning Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles Sunday will look a little bit different than every other game they have played at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome this season.

Thanks to a golfing bet struck between Saints head coach Sean Payton and Eagles head coach Doug Pederson in March, New Orleans will be sporting their popular alternate color rush jerseys, while the Eagles will wear their typical green home jerseys.

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The coaches played a round of golf together while in Orlando, Florida for the

Pederson said that their natural competitive instincts kicked in when they took to the course. He was able to cash in shortly after that.

"After a while, your competitive juices start flowing, you kinda try to feel each other out a bit to see 'OK, how is he going to play, how am I going to play,'" Pederson said. "Then I think Sean and I both got to the point where it was like we have to do something here. We have to play for something. We started talking about it, talking about jersey colors and Sean was like, there's only so many things as head coaches that we can control. Obviously, we can control [jersey colors] and we said hey this is a great idea."

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