One week from tomorrow is Fat Tuesday. Tomorrow in New Orleans as the Super Bowl Champion New Orleans Saints parade through the city, is Dat Tuesday.
In this wonderful Mardi Gras season, we will celebrate Lombardi Gras.
We stage Mardi Gras parades as much for others as we do for ourselves. Lombardi Gras belongs to us.
All the Saints fans everywhere who kept the faith – if faith can be defined as belief not resting on logical proof or material evidence, there have been no fans of a professional football team more faithful than you.
A full page ad I saw in the newspaper in support of the Saints prior to Sunday’s game said the hopes of a city will finally go marching in.
In the darkest moments in the history of this team and the city it represents, hope couldn’t be extinguished. Hope couldn’t be submerged. Hope couldn’t be buried.
Sunday, hope was rewarded and faith was confirmed.
This is such a wonderful time to be a Saints fan, a resident of New Orleans and the Gulf South. We are special. And now, thanks to the massive exposure the Saints have given us, the whole world knows.
Embrace that feeling as you embrace one another. No one can begin to understand it, to appreciate it, and to revel in it like you do.
Know Dat. Believe Dat.
Hope that we could, faith that we would, have both been realized as this wonderful feeling washes over us.
Been Dere. Done Dat. Finally.
