G504

The day everybody said would never come is finally here. The Saints, our Saints, are finally in the Super Bowl. It's hard to explain to a non-Saints fan (and even harder to a non-sports fan) how this moment makes me feel. This team is so connected to the city, more so than any other team I've ever seen. I know I'm a little biased, but I've lived a lot of different places, a few come close - Gator Nation, Hokie Nation - but nowhere else but Who Dat Nation does the teams success and failure have so much influence over the psychology of it's fans. Grown men will cry, kids will do better in school, feuding neighbors will come together all because the Saints won the Super Bowl.

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