Last week, we wrote that two or more unnamed Saints players expressed their displeasure with owner Tom Benson’s efforts to persuade them to buy cars by smearing excrement (presumably human) on all or some of the mini-fleet of vehicles that had been left at the team’s facility.

Jeff Duncan of the New Orleans Times Picayune reports that the story is “on the mark,” citing multiple team sources.

Duncan doesn’t name the players who are believed to be responsible for the incident.  But it should be easy to identify them, shouldn’t it?  We think that, if that many players are talking about it, it should be a breeze.

And given that the Saints hung 51 points on the Packers in their next game after dropping No. 2 on the vehicles, the time-honored concept of sports superstitions requires them to do it as long as they keep winning.