Thanksgiving & the Saints: A perfect match

Saints fans from around the city combined their love of food and Saints football. The New Orleans Saints on Thursday, Nov. 22 hosted their first home game on Thanksgiving. It turned out to be quite the feast in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome as the Saints flattened division rival Atlanta 31-17. But we wanted to see how Saints fans outside the stadium were going to handle the collision of a national holiday and a weekly holiday, Saints football, so we sent photographers to different parts of the New Orleans area to chronicle the evening. We crashed house parties on the North Shore, Uptown and on the West Bank, we hit two bars in Algiers Point and we checked out the crazy tailgating scene outside the Superdome. We have photo galleries from all five locations and a video about some of the delicious food Saints fans were cooking on Thanksgiving. Enjoy and have a great Thanksgiving weekend.