It’s not exactly Poydras Street an hour before a New Orleans Saints game. But walk down Ocean Drive, the South Beach boulevard of Art Deco hotels, bars, restaurants and boutiques that is ground zero for hard-partying Super Bowl fans, and there’s only conclusion the objective observer can reach:
The Saints are the home team Sunday.
“Oh man, it’s 10-to-1 Saints fans out here,” said Mark Wallace, area manager for Fat Tuesday, the daiquiri bar chain that has a location in South Beach. “And I’m talking about what I’m seeing walking around on the street. Inside our place, it’s 100-to-1 Saints fans.
“It’s absolutely crazy. We had planned for a big weekend, but we didn’t expect anything like what we saw Thursday night. And (Friday) is already off the charts.”
What Wallace and others in town have observed, but the event’s organizers are unable to quantify and loathe to acknowledge, is that south Florida is shaping up as perhaps the least neutral Super Bowl site in National Football League history.
It is an indisputable, if immeasurable fact: In bars and nightclubs, RV parks and hotels, Saints fans are blowing out Colts fans. It’s not even close.
He may have been born in Fall River, Massachusetts, BUT.. his heart is in New Orleans ! In 1982, Lagasse replaced Paul Prudhomme as executive chef of the famed New Orleans restaurant Commander’s Palace.
Well a a few members of the Whodatnation were lucky to have lunch in Miami at one of Emeri’s places and boy was it good ! We also had the chance to see Food Network personality Mario Batali who was at Emeri’s restaurant.
Emeril and the Who Dat Nation
If you are on South Beach and hungry go to the Lowes and check his place out. He was wearing a “Whodatnation” pin but one of the girls covered it up : )
Well I just made it to South Beach and the Whodatnation is all over. Got some great video and hope to have it up soon. If you have any pictures send them to the forum.
We had alot of request for Who Dat Nation gear, well guess what we have some so check it out and if you want something special let us know and we can see what we can do.
At the start of the season we had Gus Kattengell sending us stories each week about the Saints. Well Gus is now working hard on AM 690 with the “The Sports Hangover” all week long from Miami, 10am-Noon”
If you are in New Orleans and want to listen live to Gus make sure you check out his show streaming live on the internet at http://www.wistradio.com/
Chuck Foreman and some members of the Who Dat Nation !
A few members of the Who Dat Nation went to the NFL Legends 5th Annual Bowling Pins for Charity Classic tonight and had the chance to bowl with a great member of the NFL, Chuck Foreman !
Chuck was a little upset that his Vikings did not make it to the Super Bowl but did say he was going to cheer for the Saints, a fellow NFC team.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin has landed himself a ticket to the Super Bowl – and the taxpayers are footing the bill.
Nagin expressed shock last week that as the city’s chief executive, he only had been offered the option to buy tickets in a “nosebleed section” of Sun Life Stadium in Miami, where the Saints make their Super Bowl debut Sunday.
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