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The crazy days of youth

By Scoop Jackson
Page 2

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

You would think in a city that had only a professional football team that this story about the beauty of tailgating would center around the pregame Superdome rituals of being a New Orleans Saints fan or about living in a city where the Saints were worshipped like Kanye worships Kanye. That is where you'd be wrong, my friends. (Note: At the time, somewhere between 1983 and 1986, New Orleans no longer had the Jazz and the Hornets didn't arrive until 2002.) Not to say that the art of tailgatin ...

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