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    Saints' Super Bowl Win Gives New Orleans a Morale Boost

    It was more than a win for a team that had never even made it to the Super Bowl, one whose fans used to come to games with paper bags over their heads and “aints” written across their foreheads.

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    KCRW placeholderBy Sara Terry • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

    It was more than a win for a team that had never even made it to the Super Bowl, one whose fans used to come to games with paper bags over their heads and “aints” written across their foreheads. Those days are gone for the New Orleans Saints, whose Super Bowl victory is wrapped in the arms of a city that's embracing a story of hope and rebirth. Political satirist Harry Shearer lives part-time in New Orleans, and is directing a documentary about its catastrophic flooding in the wake of Katrina in 2005.

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