... Sorry to ruin your sentence of, "no NFL fan base has a love affair with their team quite like the Saints & New Orleans," but Seattle and Seahawks springs to mind. We still sold out the last game of the season in Qwest Field, even when our playoff chances died 5 weeks prior. But that's generally the same with a lot of Football teams and the cities they are located at.

But I do admit, New Orleans and the Saints go together much better than, for example, Detriot and the Lions. Or St. Louis and the Rams.

I do not wish to take away from the victory (it was well deserved, and gutsy moves from the whole team led to the win), so I will not do so. I do hope this will bring some form of attention back to the flood zone in the public's mind, because I believe nobody really understands what really happened over there.

I believe the UK show Top Gear put it best: They were going to drive from Florida to New Orleans and try to sell the cars they had bought in FL. However, once they arrived in New Orleans they had realized that Katrina had hit harder than anybody in the BBC studios had realized, so they donated the cars to needing families at a local Church. (The cars were in fair enough condition, except they later joked saying one of the host's cars didn't make it past the church itself, due to how much it died on the trip.)

Now if that doesn't bring to light what happened, I hope the Lombardi trophy itself can.