Sean Patrick Payton is an American football coach and a former quarterback. Previously, he served as the head coach of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League from 2006 to 2021, leading the franchise to its first Super Bowl victory during the 2009 season.
How much of Home Team is true?
Netflix’s sports comedy Home Team is based on a true story, but as with all true story films, the real-life characters moved on and the movie made certain story changes to heighten theatricality and improve the narrative flow. That said, some of the things that remain true about the movie may be surprising to some viewers.
Home Team follows the events immediately after the 2012 season suspension of New Orleans Saints’ head coach Sean Payton (Kevin James) after the scandal known as “Bountygate,” in which Saints players were given bounties to purposefully injure opposing players that included Minnesota Vikings star veteran Brett Favre and Arizona Cardinals quarterback Kurt Warner.
