Truth be told, it has often been difficult to tell a Saints game from a circus, what with all the clowns and the juggling.

But he says he'll be fine for the Saints game.

For one baby girl, it was the first Saints game she had witnessed.

But he had only three catches against the Giants the week after that Saints game.

Mariucci and Rice spoke for about 30 minutes after the Saints game.

"It started at Saints games not too long after that."

He also spent five years as an analyst for Saints games broadcast on radio.

Even my father, who wouldn't have dreamed of going to a Saints game in the old days, is excited.

In later years he would also read a halftime editorial during each Saints game.

It was at a party before a Saints game in New Orleans.