Super Bowl ratings through the roof

You got to remember:

1. The majority of offshore workers are Gulf South born and raised. You had people in the Brazilian oilfields watching the Super Bowl.
2. There are a lot of Gulf South natives in the NFL (including Payton Manning). For several generations, the only way for many kids in the New Orleans area to get that education was if it was tied into a football program.
3. Katrina was not only a tragedy, but it dispersed our people nationwide. We're a very party-ready gregarious people, with the best food in the world, so we make some friends when we leave our home.
4. For generations, if you wanted to earn top dollar for a degree and not work in the oilfield, you left Louisiana. The same for Mississippi. But this is one of the few areas in the nation where you know your great-great granddaddy's name. It's in your blood, and you will never fully leave it.
5. The economy of the Oilfield is directly inverted to the economy of the rest of this country. Any time jobs were scarce down here, and we'd leave, missing home, and would often be back as soon as the economy picked back up. But the people we met along the way remember us.
6. Louisiana Catholics are a very superstitious people. They fully believed their beloved team was cursed, and would never see a super bowl. That was lifted with "Favre on the ground", and merely going to the Super Bowl was the lifting of a 40+ year curse off the heads of 7 million people. Get that, a curse, the equivalent of breaking 3 mirrors back to back...
7. The Vikings game? That looked like a fight to the finish. People truly into football like that type of fight, and there was a chance that type of skirmish would be taken to the Super Bowl


While this area still needs prayers & a helping hand, people outside of New Orleans and the Gulf South quit listening to our pleas for help within a few months and started talking about how we should not rebuild our way of life below the I10. People from California (mudslides, fires, devastating earthquakes), New York (fault lines, snow,, ice storms, Hurricanes), the plains states (Mississippi flash floods, tornadoes, big blizzards) told people that they shouldn't go back to their homes, when we have the only predictable devastation on the face of the Earth. Thanks to Katrina, we know when to run. You can't say that for any other devastation. People down here are still pissed about the rest of this country's attitude, and its likely to be a several-generation grudge for many of us. Remember, the media (including the local media) hyped up the Katrina angle, not the outside-of-the-devastation viewers. Don't get me wrong, we'll gladly take anyone remembering our situation down here--that's one of the reason our boys clearly stated that they won this for us. But the overwhelming majority of the viewers were not watching because of Katrina. They watched because they were a part of the "Who Dat?" nation, they knew too many of the great people down

The biggest reason MASH finale was the most watched show, is timing. In the early 1980's TV was still mostly just 5 channels. Cable TV in full force had not yet started. So the choices were limited. Otherwise maybe "Friends" or "Senfield" finale's might have been the most watched show.

Why, this was a BORING game. Fuck the Saints & especially the big DOUCHE himself, Drew Brees. Fucking Favre & his int & the Vikes would of won this game.

Well, both these sagas more or less started with choppers lifting off people....
The world's most unique city can truly celebrate like no other when it wins.

Jessamyn,

You have stated a lot of things, all of them as if they were facts about the collective opinions of New Orleanians. I'd hope you'd edit your statements to read "I feel..." as opposed to expressing these as if they are the sentiments of an entire city or fan base.

In short, speak for yourself, and don't do exactly what you're accusing big media of doing - propagating an inaccurate picture.

Good for you, Joe. Kenny Phillips is healing, a nice draft, and a few additions/subtractions in FA and we'll be right back to the top. Would love to win the Super Bowl in JerryWorld. Go Giants!