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The city erupts in joy as New Orleans wins, earning their first trip to the super Bowl

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Drew Brees salutes the crowd at the trophy presentation during the NFC championship game between the New Orleans Saints and Minnesota Vikings on Sunday at the Superdome.

Win was a long time coming

The Saints are going to Miami to play one more football game against Peyton Manning and the Indianapolis Colts on Feb. 7. Believe it. P ETER It is now history. A franchise that lost more games than you can count to place kicks that went wide right or wide left beat the Minnesota Vikings 31-28 in

overtime, winning its biggest ever, with a down-the-middle 40-yarder that traveled from Poydras Street toward Girod Street. At age 23, Garrett Hartley, whose right F INNEY foot put the Who Dats in a Super Bowl, was not around for the jeers and tears surrounding

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Saints win brings unrivaled revelry, swell of emotion

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You might call this one a stranger-hugger grabbing the person closest to you, then the next. No one paying attention to anyones words. No one ashamed of the tears. Of course, there really were no strangers to begin with in

a city that has known so much pain the kind that extends well beyond the football field, into the sad realm of hurricane winds, rising waters, lost lives and wrecked property. The kind of immeasurable pain that almost makes a mockery of the bags that once covered the heads of

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