If you asked me to type out my emotional state in the wake of Reggie Bush's incitement of a 'Who Dat' chant that served as the green light to an evening of excitement, It likely would have read as if I were standing stark naked in the middle of a bomb cyclone while doing so. In a word, chills. If the sight of so many familiar faces, in conjunction with the remembrance of one that tragically could only be there in spirit, miraculously wasn't enough to move you then the resonation of 73,000 strong voicing their allegiance in bedrock-rumbling unison gave you no choice. The shaking of my hands through a computer screen is enough proof that I need to declare that you didn't even have to be in attendance to feel the love that New Orleans has for the Saints of past and present, and vice versa. I don't know that this year's rendition of the black & gold needed the spirit of a Super Bowl champion to be in the building, but I'll be damned if it didn't feel better knowing that it was. Reggie Bush paying homage to the late, great Will Smith while surrounded by a cluster of teammates that became eternal shortly thereafter a history defining pick-six was the cherry on top of what turned out to be another unforgettable Sunday. From the awe-inspiring and heartstring-tugging presence of Colston-to-Moore-to-Thomas-to-Henderson-to-McKenzie-to-Fujita-to-Stinchcomb-to-Shanle-to-Harper-to-Gay-to-the soul of #91- to the handful of others I'm forgetting, Reggie Bush didn't even need to take the field with a baseball bat to knock the pregame build-up straight out of the park. It remains to be seen what lies ahead for a young group that boosts an eerily reminiscent sense of kinship, but they certainly don't lack motivation after getting a first hand look at how quickly you become one with a city as passionate as New Orleans upon delivering them a title. Until further notice, the answer to "who dat!?!" shall remain "we", because 2009's finest showed how forever binding a winning locker room can be...
------- P.S. Reggie's opinion of Alvin Kamara, while both predictable and unenlightening, must make every Saints' fan giddy for a future that's already arrived...
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