Filed under: Saints, NFL Fans, Super Bowl
NEW ORLEANS — They didn’t need to wait until the clock hit 0:00.
When Tracy Porter took off with a Peyton Manning pass meant for Reggie Wayne, pushing the Saints‘ lead to 31-17 with just over three minutes left in the fourth quarter of this year’s Super Bowl, the city of New Orleans took off, too, to a state of euphoria and overwhelming emotion.
There was an initial surge of joy in the Bourbon Street bar I watched the game in — people leaping into each other’s arms, falling over, jumping up and down with no concern for what happened to the contents of their cups. And then, after a minute, everybody looked at the scoreboard and the moment sunk in. The mood turned from festive to reflective.
That’s when a twenty-something guy in an LSU T-shirt made eye contact with me and broke down.
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