Wow. We're still elated, floating on air, exuberant, overjoyed, delirious with happiness. It's been a huge boost for everyone, not just the sports fans. It gave us our power back, power that seeped away over many long years of defeat after defeat--failures not just of the Saints, but of the city, the area, the whole state. Katrina was nearly a death-blow. We're fighters, though; we've hung in there, remained loyal to the Saints, kept hope alive despite our civic messes, doggedly rebuilt from disaster after disaster.
Now, well . . . who ever thought we'd see headlines like "Aggressive tactics boost mighty Saints to first title" (USA Today) "Mighty Saints"! There was a time when those words would have been said only in cruel derision.
I keep thinking, "Sport as metaphor . . . sport as metaphor . . . sport as metaphor." That, in fact, was what I talked about in a blog entry from 2006, when I first became a real Saints fan. It resonates even more with me now.
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It's incredible!
I know, every once in a while I just stop and say, we really won the super bowl. Wow!
It was funny to see Charles in a mild kind of shock at the end of the game, letting reality sink in, but having a difficult time grasping it. ;)
This was, I think, the first TV football game I ever sat through the whole way. What a payoff!
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