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The New Orleans Saints: The best team in the NFL.
A fact that really did not hit home until the St. Augustine High School Marching 100 began to play at the team’s Super Bowl victory parade on Tuesday.
With every musical note, gyrating hip-pump and spin-around dance step, the band’s rendition of the “Stand Up and Get Crunk” made me appreciate the deep relationship between the Saints — a franchise that I once collected checks from — and their fans.
For some reason, I overlooked this love affair at first.
Don’t get me wrong. Like everyone else, I looked forward to watching this year’s Super Bowl. Drew Brees vs. Peyton Manning. It was a matchup between the league’s two best regular season teams going head-to-head in a championship game. How could you not be excited?
But once the Super Bowl ended — with the Saints defeating the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 in Miami — my emotions ran dry.
