Super Bowl Sunday is a holiday. At least it should be. Our lounge was full of people and food, and random yelling at the TV. You’d think it were Christmas or Thanksgiving.
It is always a big day. There are funny commercials, a halftime show, and the main event: the big game. The best part of the night, at least for the Saints fans in the room, came late in the fourth quarter:
“Throw a pick, throw a pick!”
“Dude, Peyton Manning doesn’t throw picks”
A few plays later: Manning throws a pick. Worse still, it was returned for a touchdown that gave the Saints all that they would need to take home their first Lombardi trophy.
The Saints Tracy Porter jumped Manning’s pass to Reggie Wayne and thanks to one key block, ran it back 74 yards to help the Saints win 31-17. Porter also picked Brett Favre late in the AFC Championship game to help the Saints get to the Super Bowl.
Manning drove his team down the field, but the team ran out of downs near the goal line.
Mardi Gras is nine days away, but that means nothing to New Orleans. It just means the party keeps going. Not only is this their first Super Bowl, but it is also a symbol of the city’s rise after Hurricane Katrina.
Four years ago the city was in complete ruins; covered in water and devastation abound. The Louisiana Superdome barely had a roof and residents of the city were huddled inside, braving the hurricane raging outside.
The Saints comeback started the next September. In their first game back in the Superdome, the Saints had a triumphant win against the Falcons. Drew Brees had just arrived in the city; he and his wife Brittany planned on helping the city rebound in any way it could.
Now, the Saints have a Lombardi trophy. It’s not just the players, though. That trophy belongs to every single person who lived in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina hit. For every person that has only been inside the Superdome once, when it became his/her home when he/she had none. For every person in New Orleans who is still trying to rebuild. And for every person who lived and died with the Saints because it was all he/she had left to hang on to.
And by the way, tomorrow should be a holiday too. “Super Bowl Recuperation Day.” I don’t know about you, but I’m beat.
(P.S. The gorilla and EA Sport simulation game were right. I’ll keep that in mind. And does this mean Reggie Bush and Kim K ardashian are getting married? Just wonderin…)
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