Between free food, prizes (mainly handed out just for waiting in line) and an entire weekend of free, phenomenal, all day, multi stage professional and local (here they are the same) music, we had an amazing time. We got to hear the difference between Zydeco and Cajun music, much accordion, more jazz and a dude playing washboard like he was Jimi Hendrix.
Though the entire weekend was a blast, Sunday was probably the highlight. After the concerts had ended Isaiah managed to score us an entire case of Pepsi. We then spotted a crowd of Raven fans forming (they were hard to miss). Then they started marching. Needless to say we joined right in, chanting and yelling, shutting down the traffic that wasn't already shut down, dodging police, while people from balconies cheered and took pictures and clumps of the more disorganized 49er fans made threats on their teams behalf. Being two impartial bandwagon jumpers with no tickets among thousands of rabid fans in a procession from the waterfront to the Superdome was quite an experience, the one blemish being I was occasionally mistaken for a 49ers fan. Having limited clothing options and no strong affiliations for either team (though we wanted Baltimore to win) I had stupidly worn maroon. I wasn't booed or treated poorly in the tsunami of purple, but did get some nasty looks. I had a good buzz going so it only slightly dampened my mood.
Unable to find anywhere to actually watch the game we caught the last and most important minutes along side the electronics staff at Walmart as Baltimore held on.
We made YouTube! At 1:26 into the video, I'm in a maroon shirt wearing a sun hat and Isaiah is wearing a black t-shirt and, of course, carrying a case of Pepsi:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GqZaGm_PpI
Throwing a football to win a tiny foam football
Signed autographs to help Drew Brees Charity
Mahogany Brass Band
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