[This is the second of the NOLA Post’s two articles on the post-game celebrations in New Orleans after the New Orleans Saints won the Super Bowl. Click here to see part 1.]
Pigs Fly
It is perhaps collectively the happiest ever time in the New Orleans metropolitan area. After four decades of frustration, and four-and-a-half years into a post-Katrina world, the New Orleans Saints have won a Super Bowl.
The faces seen here of youngsters heading toward downtown on a jammed Canal Street were like those of hundreds of thousands of Saints fans.
Perhaps no other Super Bowl victory was as much larger than a sporting event as this one.
The group in the below picture was waiting in traffic on Canal Street underneath I-10.
In addition to the elation shown by the fans in the below picture, the logo on the pants worn by the boy at right in the below picture is significant.
The pants are labeled for Newman High School in New Orleans. Peyton Manning, the Indianapolis Colts quarterback who tried to beat the Saints on this day, was born and raised in New Orleans and graduated from and played high school football at Newman.
The other manning boys Eli and Cooper also graduated from Newman.
Party in the Quarter
In the French Quarter, crowds filled the streets with strangers high-fiving and hugging each other. The man below is seen in the 1100th block of Chartres Street.
Balconies on Bourbon Street were full of ladies tossing Saints-related beads to the masses in the street.
Few in New Orleans will ever forget this day.
Here is CNN’s report of the game.
The next article in the NOLA Post will include coverage of the Saints’ victory parade in New Orleans on Tuesday.
James A. Robichaux
