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Saints News, 5/2/14: Payton, Loomis, Ryan To Live Their Own 'Hangover' Film While In Las Vegas?

I have no source or article to confirm the above headline. I just know there's probably at least a 50/50 chance it will soon be true after we learned yesterday that the Saints brain trust are headed to Las Vegas for a weekend "retreat" before Draft Week. There's nothing else all that interesting to report regarding the Saints today, so I'm rolling with the above headline, which is based purely on my own speculation and is not at all rooted in fact. Chances are at the very least that Rob Ryan or Sean Payton will pass out in the bar of a casino somewhere.

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