Your team did what all but one other team did not do - went to the Super Bowl! They played well, and fought hard. Surely more than 11 of you could have shown up and supported your team, clapped them on the shoulder and told them, "well fought, gentlemen!"
In general we have lost the ability to be graceful in defeat, when it doesn't count. And loyal when it does. Though the Super Bowl does generate beaucoup in revenue for the NFL, and much by way of civic pride, when all is said and done it does not cure cancer, or put any of our millions back to work.
The city of New Orleans, in its support of their professional football team over the past 43 years has shown all of us a lesson in graciousness, loyalty, and civility in defeat as well as in victory.
As a proud expatriate New Orleanian, let me be one of the first to tell the Colts what their fans did not - you played well and fought hard gentlemen. I sure wish your fans could appreciate it. And yes, I would have said the same thing had you won. My momma taught me better than that!
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