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Mardi Gras is a week away, but New Orleans fans were already filling up Bourbon Street on Sunday in celebration of their Saints’ first Super Bowl victory.
And it’s only the beginning.

Saints coach Sean Payton and quarterback Drew Brees, the newly crowned Super Bowl MVP, expect New Orleans residents to take the next 30 days off from work to revel in the team’s historic Super Bowl championship.
New Orleans has a right to.
After hosting the most Super Bowls in NFL history for other teams, the hometown team finally got to play for its own Vince Lombardi Trophy and won with a 31-17 defeat of the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday in Super Bowl XLIV in Miami.

New Orleans took its first lead of the game after catching Indy off guard with an onside kick and recovering the ball to begin the second half. Brees then marched the Saints down the field threw a 16-yard screen to Pierre Thomas who weaved through defenders to find the end zone for New Orleans’ 13-10 lead. The Colts grabbed the lead back with Joseph Addai’s 4-yard run with six minutes left in the third quarter. But the Saints kept Indy out of the end zone for the rest of the game and scored an unanswered 18 points to secure the Super Bowl victory.
Saints coach Sean Payton said the team had been practicing the onside kick all week and Drew Brees said he couldn’t wait to see how well it worked in an actual game. Payton added that the team ran three different game plans for the first half, the third quarter and the fourth quarter. Obviously, his strategy worked.
Although the Saints were the underdogs, Brees said he felt pressure on his team to win because he felt like the country was pulling for New Orleans to win the Super Bowl.
And many were pulling for New Orleans, a city that was almost wiped off the map after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina put most of the city underwater in 2005.
Sports commentator Michael Irvin, a Pro Football Hall of Fame receiver on three Dallas Cowboys Super Bowl championship teams, told Brees that New Orleans is now America’s Team and he hopes the Saints’ Super Bowl victory helps the city to continue to rebuild.
So New Orleans is no longer the laughingstock of the NFL with fans wearing ‘Aints paper bags on their heads. The Saints are the reigning Super Bowl champions and have the nucleus of the team intact to add to their new legacy of winning.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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The debate has been going on for years on whether Peyton Manning is better than Tom Brady. Brady won three Super Bowl rings with New England before Manning even won his first in 2007.
But today, Peyton has to be better than New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees, the NFL’s passing leader and Offensive Player of the Year in 2008.
Still, sports enthusiasts are pondering whether Peyton, 33, should be considered one of the greatest NFL quarterbacks of all-time if he leads the Indianapolis Colts to victory over the New Orleans Saints at Super Bowl XLIV today.
But when Peyton was asked to critique himself during Super Bowl interviews, he remarked: “I have limited athletic ability, so I have to use the cerebral stuff.”
Read this indepth Associated Press article to get an inside look into how Peyton compensates for his “limited athletic ability” to consistently lead the Colts to an NFL record 12 wins for seven consecutive seasons and their second Super Bowl appearance in three years.
New Orleans fans have a lot of respect and admiration for Peyton because he and his two brothers grew up in New Orleans following their father Archie Manning’s long career as the Saints’ legendary starting quarterback. Peyton and his bros excelled in football, basketball and baseball at a New Orleans high school before he and his youngest brother Eli left for college and NFL glory. Their parents and oldest brother, Cooper, continue to live in New Orleans, and Peyton and Eli returned to their hometown to volunteer when Hurricane Katrina tore apart New Orleans in 2005.
And when the NFL and NCAA wanted to pull the Super Bowl and Sugar Bowl out of New Orleans, Archie Manning successfully campaigned to enable the city to remain host for those big games.
New Orleans residents consider the Mannings as their Kennedys, but most will be pulling for their Saints to “limit” Peyton’s production in order to bring back New Orleans’ first Super Bowl trophy.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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Rocking her golden mohawk and a bad-ass, sexy onesie with a sword-shaped microphone stand, Rihanna rocked the crowd at the Super Bowl’s Pepsi Fan Jam on Thursday night in Miami. She sang “Wait Your Turn”, “Live Your Life” and “Disturbia”, her No. 1 hit written by her ex Chris Brown.

Before heading to the Super Bowl, she sat down with an L.A. radio station and said she is pulling for New Orleans to beat Indianapolis in the upcoming Super Bowl because its the Saints’ first appearance and would be a great comeback from Hurricane Katrina. She also talked about “Tick Tock” singer Kesha’s crush on her and how she also admires Kesha.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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For the last couple years, New Orleans tailback Reggie Bush has been more famous for being the boyfriend of reality TV star, businesswoman and Hollywood socialite Kim Kardashian than for his football career.
It’s taken four years, but the former Heisman Trophy winner is finally making an impact in professional football and reminding fans why he was one of the greatest players in college football in his three seasons at the University of Southern California.
Like in his college-playing days, Bush made defenders miss to score on a 46-yard touchdown run and an 83-yard punt return for a touchdown to lead New Orleans to a 45-14 romp of defending NFC champion Arizona in the divisional playoffs. Then, Reggie’s 5-yard, fourth quarter touchdown run in the NFC championship game was crucial in the Saints’ 31-28 overtime victory over Minnesota.

Now, New Orleans, site of the most Super Bowl games, gets to play Indianapolis on Sunday for the franchise’s first Super Bowl and Reggie Bush can take some of the credit along with his prolific quarterback Drew Brees.
But even though Reggie played a big part in getting the Saints to the Super Bowl, he had to field questions about his famous girlfriend. Fifteen minutes into his Super Bowl interview session, Reggie was asked about the rumor that he would marry Kim if the Saints beat the Colts in the Super Bowl. He answered that he would rather get a ring from NFL commissioner Roger Goodell than a wedding ring from Kim.

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Minnesota quarterback Brett Favre could be celebrating his third NFL retirement at the Super Bowl in Miami, but instead he can take the blame for handing New Orleans the NFC championship on Sunday for the Saints’ first trip to the Super Bowl.
With less than 20 seconds remaining in the game, Favre had a wide open running lane to pick up the few yards needed for the Vikings’ game-winning field goal despite an injured leg. He rolled out of the pocket and halted with no defender near him to zing a pass to the other side of the field that was intercepted. The NFC championship game went into overtime, where the Saints won the coin flip and marched down the field on the first possession for Garrett Hartley’s game-winning field goal in a 31-28 victory over the Vikings.
New Orleans (15-3) will face Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts (16-2) in Super Bowl XLIV on Feb. 7 in Miami.

Favre, the NFL’s all-time passing leader, could have ended his NFL career in his third Super Bowl, but instead he has to settle for individual achievements, including being the first 40-year-old quarterback to win a playoff game and career-bests in completion percentage (68.4), quarterback rating (107.2) and fewest interceptions (7). In his 16 NFL seasons, he holds the league’s career records for completions (6,083), passing yards (69,329) and passing touchdowns (497).
However, Favre threw two costly interceptions in the NFC championship game, including his unnecessary pass in the final seconds of regulation, to deny the Vikings’ first Super Bowl appearance in more than 30 years.
Ironically, Favre has experienced the high and lows of his career in New Orleans. He led Green Bay to his only Super Bowl victory at Super Bowl XXXI in New Orleans in 1997. But he couldn’t get Minnesota to the big game after his costly mistake Sunday to send host New Orleans to the Super Bowl in Miami next month.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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New Orleans finally lost a game to blemish its unbeaten record, but the Saints and their fans can hold their heads up.
The paper bag wearing days are over in New Orleans because the former Aints are getting it done. Franchise quarterback and comeback king Drew Brees leads the NFL’s most explosive offense, and Will Smith and Darren Sharper, who is second in the league with eight interceptions, are holding down the defense.
Brees couldn’t pull off his usual late-game heroics to bring New Orleans back from a three-touchdown deficit in a 24-17 home loss to Dallas last Saturday, but he has marched the Saints to an NFC South title and their best start in franchise history.
New Orleans (13-1) has a good chance of making the franchise’s first Super Bowl although the city has hosted the most Super Bowls — seven. With two games remaining before the playoffs, the Saints could run the tables and face the league’s only remaining unbeaten team Indianapolis in the Super Bowl. It would be a great way to wrap up the season for a city still recovering from the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster.

By Teneshia LaFaye
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