Katie Couric's Notebook: Saints

By: Katie Couric
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The headlines say it all. Lombardi Gras. Big Easy Does It. All Saints Day.

I even got into the action. I tweeted "Sweet Breesus" last night on the train back to New York.

The road to the Super Bowl has been anything but easy for New Orleans, and for the Saints. They had the help of Drew Brees, as adept at being a good person as he is at being a good quarterback. But as a passenger on the train said to me, "It takes a team."

And to quote a song that's actually about baseball, it takes miles and miles and miles of heart.

It was hard not to root for this victory, not to cheer when I saw the joy of a championship beneath the superdome that was the scene of so much suffering after hurricane Katrina.

The headline on the Times Picayune on September 2, 2005, read "Help Us, Please."

Today, it was simply..."Amen."

They say in New Orleans "Who dat say dey gonna beat dem saints?"

The answer this year...is nobody.

That's a page from my notebook.

I'm Katie Couric, CBS News.

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by FROMTHEFIRST February 11, 2010 9:41 AM EST: Although there has been some coverage of the "Mardi Gras" style victory parade in New Orleans for our World Champion New Orleans Saints, one thing that has gone somewhat unnoticed is that as many as 800,000 people attended this parade, (NOPD esteimates 500,000, but the parade organizers using aerial photos from helicopters just before the event began estimated the higher number). Once again as with other celebrations after the NFC Championship game and the all-night celebration after the Super Bowl, there were no riots, no cars burned, no stores looted or vandalized, just a good time ahd by all.
So, we extend this invitation to the whole world, Whenever you can, as often as you can, come, and pass a good time with us.; Reply to this comment