Super Sunday
The New Orleans Saints are Super Bowl champions. The team defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Sunday’s game in Miami. While many fans descended on Miami for the game, the same happened in New Orleans.
The NOLA Post recorded several images on this Super Sunday.
The image above, taken five hours before kickoff, is a view riverbound in the neutral ground (what New Orleans residents call a “median”) of Canal Street along the streetcar trackage. The French Quarter is to the left in the picture on the downriver side of Canal Street in the background.
Here We Come to Get You, Peyton Manning
The man in the below picture on Bourbon Street (where all remaining pictures in this article were taken) was singing the lyrics to the Ying Yang Twins’ “Stand Up and Get Crunk” and adding Peyton Manning’s name.
Hundreds of officers of the New Orleans Police Department were on duty, as many as when New Orleans actually hosts a Super Bowl.
The Foot Locker store is on the corner of Bourbon Street and Canal Street.
Fun For All Ages
Families walked Bourbon Street before the game.
So many were hoping for the city’s first major championship in any sport.
So many would get their wishes.
Balcony Time, Baby
Much of the French Quarter is known for, among other things, its balconies.
The balconies are often places from which beads are hurled during Carnival season, which is concurrent this year with the Super Bowl.
Many Saints fans who had opportunities to go to Miami for the game opted to pass the game in New Orleans instead. Miami does not allow open containers of alcohol, and for people accustomed to being able walk around with open containers, that might seem too constricting.
Beer vendors sold plenty on Sunday.
Not So French
The iconic metalwork on the balconies for which the French Quarter are known are actually more Spanish than French. During the Spanish ownership of Louisiana in the late 1700s, the French Quarter burned and was rebuilt with Spanish architecture, hence its resemblance to other places formerly under the dominion of the Kingdom of Spain.
Below are seen patrons of the Cats Meow.
Black-and-gold were the colors of the day.
Peyton Good, Payton Better
Peyton Manning, quarterback of the Indianapolis Colts, is (or was) a favorite son of New Orleans. He is the son of former Saints quarterback Archie Manning and played high school football at Newman High School.
New Orleanians could not pull for Manning on Sunday.
The Saints won, and tears of joy flowed.
An upcoming NOLA Post article will have images of post-game celebrations.
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I’ll never tire of it!