Bomb threat for Lions-Saints game results in probation, home confinement

A fan named Shawn Payton (seriously) phoned in a bomb threat — twice — to the Superdome during the Saints’ postseason win over the Lions during the 2011 playoffs.  In June, he pleaded guilty to a charge of transmitting threats to injure in interstate commerce.  On Thursday, Payton was sentenced. According to the Associated Press,…