Hours before the New Orleans Saints took the field for the franchise’s first Super Bowl appearance, someone added the following sentence to the top of the team’s Wikipedia page: “The Saints are going to win Super Bowl XLIV.”
Former New Orleans residents living here were just as confident as that anonymous Saints fan Sunday night at Blue Orleans restaurant.
“New Orleans fans are the best NFL fans there are, and as a community, we’re the greatest city in this country,” said Lauren Gray, who moved to Chattanooga from New Orleans two weeks ago. “You can’t stop something as powerful as our team because it means more than football to us.
“It’s not about the trophy, it’s not about the title, it’s what it does for our city,” she said.