New Orleans Saints are going to the Superbowl As a New Orleanean for most of my life, and a person that has knowledge of football for my entire life, I never thought I'd hear this. And it not be a
joke.
But it's true. My city's football team is going to the
Superbowl and New Orleans/Louisiana could not be more ecstatic.
Yet, I've been confronted with a lot of... how should I say this...
HATERS... and also a lot of people that are just puzzled as to why the city is so excited. I mean,
it's just the Superbowl.But to us, it means so much more.
I'm gonna try and break it down for ya.
A few years ago,
Hurricane Katrina had us wondering if we could ever return to our city again. I remember not knowing about my house, my family photos, my high school yearbook, my friends...
I didn't even know if my Mother was alive and well. We watched pictures on the TV screen and wished we could get a glimpse of our homes. We watched people floating dead in flood waters that covered streets we drove on a few days prior. It's a scary feeling to not only know you can't go home, but that home may not even be there anymore.
Now it's 4 years later, and a lot of people say get over it. These people have never lived or visited the city. If you come right now,
I can show you parts of the city that make it seem like August 2005 was yesterday...
The Saints going to the Superbowl makes the city feel like we are alive and we have hope to become the city that we once was (the city has never been the same since)... and although the Saints weren't what one would call a "winning team" before Katrina, their chance at the Superbowl is, in a way, giving us
HOPE that, just for a second, we don't have to worry about the rebuilding and have fun like we used to.
I've lived in a few cities around the US and New Orleans has a different type of culture. We are a close knit family that give each other hugs even if we don't know you, cook for our neighbors, and never get mad or annoyed when people scream at us,
"WHO DAT?!"Cause we know WE DAT.
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