Here’s one more reason New Orleans is a great city: the care with which it treats its visitors from distant Northern climes, like Philadelphia:

(Credit here. And context, for the culturally illiterate. Also, this.)

I’d also like to point out how proud I am to be from a state where football fans break out in a spontaneous second-line dance party when their team wins its third-to-last game of the season to the NFC championship game. (Wait until 0:35.)

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18 January | 21:58 | M-D

Second "context" link is dead (YouTube pulled the video), but I'm assuming that was the FOX footage of the woman in the "F**k the Eagles" shirt...?

18 January | 22:20 | rebecca

josh, i watched the game at a sports bar in tampa and, would you believe, there was a table of like 8 to 12 ncaa refs from lafayette and lake charles. dude, when the game ended, they broke out in a second-line and started dancing around the bar singing "when the saints go marching in" -- it was awesome. the other, lame tampa patrons looked seriously afraid. :) feelin' all that who dat love...

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Joshua Benton

Joshua Benton is the director of the Nieman Digital Journalism Project at Harvard University, among other things. Before that, he was a staff writer and columnist for The Dallas Morning News. (More.)