Sentiment, success, adventure make Saints “America’s” team

// May 25th, 2010 // Uncategorized

The Dallas Cowboys have long been known as ‘America’s team’ but the New Orleans Saints, who triumphed as underdogs in Sunday’s Super Bowl, can now make a good claim to that title.

From President Barack Obama, to the estimated 100 million fans at home in front of televisions, to the crowd in Dolphins stadium, most Americans seemed to be celebrating the Saints’ 31-17 win over the Indianapolis Colts.

“The Saints had the emotion and the sentiment and the heartstrings of most of America on their side,” wrote Miami Herald columnist Greg Cote.

From a sporting point of view New Orleans was the club without a trophy from its previous 42 seasons — you could not get much more of an underdog than that.

However the reason so many Americans found themselves cheering for the black and gold was sympathy for the city of New Orleans and the wider region which was wrecked by the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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