Five new saints were canonized by the head of the Catholic Church in Vatican City earlier in the day and in a social media missive intended to celebrate the occasion the Supreme Pontiff's account used the #Saints hashtag which Twitter automatically changed to the NFL team's famous fleurs-de-lis logo.

"Today we give thanks to our new Saints," the Pope wrote. "They walked by faith and now we invoke their intercession."

As you might expect, the tweet was quickly seized upon by gridiron fans with some asking when the Pope was going to be releasing his betting picks for the week.

Another enquired as to whether the Saints had picked someone up in free agency that he had missed, while one fan questioned if the Pope actually meant 'interception' instead of 'intercession'.