This is the seventh consecutive year the NFL has saluted the Super Bowl champions with the opening game in their stadium on a Thursday in primetime.
EA Sports is honoring the 2010 season’s opening night with a pre game parade two and a half hours before kickoff. Thursday, September 9th, the parade to kick off the Saints' nationally televised season opener will begin at 5 p.m. and will be similar in size to February's Super Bowl parade, with seven floats and eight marching bands. It will begin at Elysian Fields Avenue, proceeding down Esplanade Avenue to the river, turn on North Peters Streer to Decatur Street past Jackson Square, back to North Peter, and across Canal and Poydras streets to Tchoupitoulas Street.
New Orleans music acts such as the Rebirth and Soul Rebels brass bands perform aboard the seven floats, four of which are sponsored by EA Sports, VISA, Pepsi Max and Snickers. The floats will also feature famous former NFL players. Though officials have not named precisely who will be in the parade, various events around town have booked appearances from Marcus Allen, Jerome Bettis, Floyd Little and Thurman Thomas, as well as former Saints favorites Morten Anderson, Joe Horn, Michael Lewis, Dalton Hilliard, Pat Swilling and Willie Roaf. It is expected that at least some of them will ride.
The NBC free concert will feature performances by Grammy Award-winning artists Taylor Swift and Dave Matthews Band, and will be broadcast live from Jackson Square, in the French Quarter across from the cathedral.
The 60-minute pregame show (begins at 6:30 PM CST) leads into the season opener between the Saints and the Minnesota Vikings at the Superdome. Kickoff opens up the 2010 NFL season at 7:30 PM CST.
New Orleans music acts such as the Rebirth and Soul Rebels brass bands perform aboard the seven floats, four of which are sponsored by EA Sports, VISA, Pepsi Max and Snickers. The floats will also feature famous former NFL players. Though officials have not named precisely who will be in the parade, various events around town have booked appearances from Marcus Allen, Jerome Bettis, Floyd Little and Thurman Thomas, as well as former Saints favorites Morten Anderson, Joe Horn, Michael Lewis, Dalton Hilliard, Pat Swilling and Willie Roaf. It is expected that at least some of them will ride.
The NBC free concert will feature performances by Grammy Award-winning artists Taylor Swift and Dave Matthews Band, and will be broadcast live from Jackson Square, in the French Quarter across from the cathedral.
The 60-minute pregame show (begins at 6:30 PM CST) leads into the season opener between the Saints and the Minnesota Vikings at the Superdome. Kickoff opens up the 2010 NFL season at 7:30 PM CST.
Thursday's game will be a rematch of the NFC Championship Game on January 24 (whoo-hoo, my Birthday!), which the Saints won 31-28 in overtime to advance to Super Bowl XLIV, where the Saints defeated the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 for the franchise's first World Championship.
Kern, the NFL and Saints team officials stressed that the pregame concert and parade were not designed with ticket holders in mind. Fans run the risk of not getting to their Superdome seats in time for championship-banner ceremonies preceding the showdown with the Vikings if they also go to the parade and concert. The NFL has little sympathy for game-goers who can't check out the parade or concert because of the tight scheduling. NFL Vice President of Events Frank Supovitz said in August that the goal was to create a celebration for all of New Orleans, not just the 70,000-plus people "lucky enough to have tickets to the game."
Kern, the NFL and Saints team officials stressed that the pregame concert and parade were not designed with ticket holders in mind. Fans run the risk of not getting to their Superdome seats in time for championship-banner ceremonies preceding the showdown with the Vikings if they also go to the parade and concert. The NFL has little sympathy for game-goers who can't check out the parade or concert because of the tight scheduling. NFL Vice President of Events Frank Supovitz said in August that the goal was to create a celebration for all of New Orleans, not just the 70,000-plus people "lucky enough to have tickets to the game."
The parade and concert will be televised on NFL Network and NBC. Lastly, inside the Superdome some time between 6:30 p.m. and kickoff, officials will unveil the division, conference and Super Bowl championship banners the Saints won last season. Enjoy!!!!
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