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New Orleans: Stop the presses and start them again
Published: 1/28/2010 4:36 PM
Last Modified: 1/28/2010 4:38 PM

What was it like Sunday night in New Orleans after the Saints clinched a trip to their first Super Bowl?

That's the question I asked in an e-mail to Roger Dunaway, a former University of Tulsa sports information assistant who now calls New Orleans home (he's the sports info director at Tulane).

I thought his reply was interesting.

Wrote Dunaway, "It was pretty amazing to see people both young and very old celebrating in their own way. A lot of people stayed at the Dome and left way after the game was over and then thousands filled the (French) Quarter. It was gridlock

"I've discovered that the Saints aren't an NFL team in New Orleans. They are New Orleans. And, living here, you can't help but have an attachment to them. You can't go anywhere without seeing a Saints logo or hear a 'Who Dat!' in the streets.

"It was a long awaited relief for this city, 43 years worth. The Times-Picayune has had to reprint Monday's edition three times now. It sold out Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Pretty amazing considering newspapers are considered obsolete by so many now, but you can't carry the Internet home and frame it on your wall.

"Mardi Gras came early this year and they've actually changed parade schedules to accommodate the Super Bowl. This city will be in party mode for the next four weeks!"



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Tulsa World sports writer Jimmie Tramel is a former class president at Locust Grove High School. He graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State University with a journalism degree and, while attending college, was sports editor of the Pryor Daily Times. He joined the Tulsa World on Oct. 17, 1989, the same day an earthquake struck the World Series. He is the OSU basketball beat writer and a columnist and feature writer during football season. In 2007, he wrote a book about Oklahoma State football with former Cowboy coach Pat Jones.

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