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New Orleans Really Did Boycott the Super Bowl

Kevin Kinkead

By Kevin Kinkead

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via Twitter (@DavidBegnaud)

I hate to admit this, but after watching last night’s pitiful excuse of a Super Bowl, we would have been better off with the Saints representing the NFC instead of the Rams. It’s clear they would have put up a better fight than Los Angeles. They may actually have scored a touchdown.

Don’t get me wrong, they’re still a bunch of annoying crybabies, but the city of New Orleans followed through on their promise to boycott the big game. The front page of the Times-Picayune was left intentionally blank and the locals down there in “Loo-zee-anna” didn’t watch the actual game:

For context, Austin Karp at the Sports Business Journal says CBS drew a 44.9 overnight, which was “the lowest-scoring Super Bowl yet.” Boston scored big ratings, but Los Angeles didn’t watch the way a big market normally would have, pulling just a 44.6. That’s not the number you’re looking for when you consider that LA is the United States’ second biggest television market.

Instead of watching the game, New Orleans went out and had a parade instead, marching down the streets while hard-working and blue collar Philadelphia was 36 hours removed from a weekend snow storm.

I particularly enjoyed this costume:

Is that offensive to blind Americans? We’ll have to check with the PC crowd to get their judgment.

There was also this, an upside down referee hanging from the back of a pimped out car:

Seems a little aggressive.

Anyway, I believe the rest of the parade went something like this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZPZWZDlkaY

Kevin Kinkead
Kevin Kinkead

Kevin has been writing about Philadelphia sports since 2009. He spent seven years in the CBS 3 sports department and started with the Union during the team's 2010 inaugural season. He went to the academic powerhouses of Boyertown High School and West Virginia University. email - k.kinkead@sportradar.com

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