Super Bowl TV Rating Breaks All-Time Record

Thousands jam parade route for Super Bowl champs

(NEWSER) - A week ahead of Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras, the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints celebrated "Dat Tuesday." Carnival floats carrying players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson rolled past tens of thousands of members of "Who Dat" nation in a victory parade. The Mardi Gras-flavored parade includes 12 marching bands and one float each from 10 krewes. Quarterback Drew Brees and other players were throwing beads into the crowds as confetti floated in the air. One float carried an oversized replica of the Super Bowl trophy. More»

Drew Brees has highest career completion percentage

(NEWSER) - Last night's Super Bowl didn't just net the Saints a win, but added some names to the record books as well. At 82.1%, QB Drew Brees now has the highest Super Bowl career completion percentage. The New Orleans Times-Picayune takes a look at other new records:

• Most completions: The Saints' 32 and the Colts 31 make 63, the most ever in a Super Bowl.
• Completion percentage: The teams' combined stats average at 75%, the best of all time.

Streets of New Orleans fill with celebrating fans

(NEWSER) - Music filled the air and Saints fans filled the streets tonight as New Orleans celebrated the hometown team's first Super Bowl victory. Jubilant supporters shook off the devastation of Hurricane Katrina and started Carnival-style revelry a week and a half before Mardi Gras. "You can't describe it. It's so awesome. We've been waiting for this for years," one fan told the AP . "It's means so much to the city. They're back. They're alive." More»

New Orleans makes upset look easy as Indy receivers go AWOL

(AP) - The New Orleans Saints stymied Peyton Manning, then intercepted him to seal the Super Bowl, rallying to beat the Indianapolis Colts tonight in Miami, 31-17. Tracy Porter intercepted a pass from Manning and sprinted 74 yards for a touchdown and a 31-17 lead with 3:12 left. Playing in the Super Bowl for the first time, the Saints went on a 31-7 run after falling behind 10-0 early. More»

From why everyone feels disrespected to who wins

(NEWSER) - If you’re just getting up to speed on Sunday’s Super Bowl between the New Orleans Saints and Indianapolis Colts, Jason Gay has the insider’s guide to America’s “overcooked spectacle” of an homage to ancient Rome:

• The overarching theme is disrespect. The Saints feel it because analysts are picking the Colts to win; the Colts feel it because “America has fallen in hot, slobbery love with the Saints,” Gay writes in the Wall Street Journal .