Be A New Orleanian Wherever You Are

This editorial by Richard Campanella is the best explanation I've found of just what last week's and next week's Saints games mean to New Orleans, and why it reaches far beyond just football. We don't necessarily expect to be "America's team" (never having really felt like part of America, especially after 8-29-05, that would be strange and disorienting to us), but we do appreciate that people elsewhere are rooting for us: non-football fans, even Vikings fans (by and large, the classiest bunc...