Amazing; absolutely amazing! New Orleans is shining tonight and it just may be her finest hour. The celebration she is hosting right now is more than just a parade or a celebration of the Saints winning their 1st Super Bowl. It is a resounding statement that she is back and her people are strong and no body, and I mean nobody, can celebrate like New Orleans.
The Saints are being honored for their world championship with a Mardi Gras parade that quite frankly is making all past Super Bowl parades look kind of lame. This thing has energy; this thing is fun. But amazingly, there is something more spectacular going on in New Orleans.
Tonight, black and white, Asian and Hispanic, old and young, rich and poor are standing shoulder to shoulder in a crowd that will probably rival any past Mardi Gras celebration and are doing so with joy and pride. A football team, one that we have loved to hate at times in the past, has taught us remarkable lessons about ourselves. Lessons of hope and perseverance and can do and yes, we are winners! New Orleans can learn from our Saints that hard work pays off, never giving up is the way to go and raising your arms as champions is WHO we are!
I believe that this great feeling that comes to us from the Super Bowl championship will last for quite some time. Let's pray that coupled with the recent elections in New Orleans and the continued recovery this Saints victory will give all of us that big extra we need to embrace our championship status.
New Orleans: tonight you look wonderful; this is your finest hour as a city. And so what if it comes from the victory of a truly heroic and decent and wonderful football team we know as the Saints. Four and a half years ago when I, like so many of you, pondered the future of New Orleans; when we doubted its' survivability, I never thought I could say this: you kinda feel sorry tonight for the rest of America; there not in New Orleans tonight.
Thank you New Orleans Saints for the victory and for bringing a city, region and state to this moment of sheer ecstasy.
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