When life throws you lemons, make lemonade.
Football fans in New Orleans were following that advice on Sunday, throwing the first-ever “Boycott Bowl.”
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Still bitter about the Saints’ NFC Championship loss two weeks ago due to a missed penalty call by the referees, New Orleans stayed away from the Super Bowl in record numbers.
Super Bowl LII earned a 26.1 television rating in the Big Easy, the lowest rating in modern New Orleans history and the lowest rating in the United States.
#NOLA has spoken.
Super Bowl LIII earned a 26.1 rating in New Orleans, the lowest of of any market and the lowest ever in New Orleans.
— Jeff Duncan (@JeffDuncan_) February 4, 2019
Bars refused to put the most watched sporting event of the year on television, opting instead to play Super Bowl XLIV from 2010, which the Saints won.
No one does petty like New Orleans. #boycottbowl pic.twitter.com/qgy51FQfoa
— L. Jeff Williams (@ljeffwilliams) February 4, 2019
While the rest of us were watching the most boring Super Bowl game of all-time, fans decked out in Saints gear filled the streets of New Orleans for a Mardi Gras-style celebration.
It began with a parade through the French Quarter, wrapping up with free street concerts.
Thousands of Saints fans in downtown New Orleans for a massive anti-Super Bowl second-line. #saints #nola #whodat #whodatnation pic.twitter.com/7dBLLmHySY
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
#WHODAT #BoycottBowl @Saints binds us together #love pic.twitter.com/BZHO9xHauJ
— Steve Beattie (@tigerfantastic) February 3, 2019
Found ourselves in the middle of #WhoDatNation and the #BoycottBowl pic.twitter.com/GWCCD1X9eg
— Stacy Bridges (@StacyBr14583699) February 3, 2019
I heard the #nfl lost millions this year….. but meanwhile in New Orleans…. #SAINTSvsEverybody #SuperBowlLlll #PatriotsvsRams #BoycottBowl pic.twitter.com/DNDwFDt44N
— Lizzie Shehane (@LizzieShehane1) February 4, 2019
When The #Saints Go Marching In!#WhoDat #NewOrleans #BoycottBowl #GoSaints pic.twitter.com/98R3EyOXyB
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
Before you ask….we’re having a GOOD time down here ⚜️👏 pic.twitter.com/tNiLFa5r3H
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
🎺🎺🎺🎺🎺 #WhoDat #BoycottBowl #Saints #NOLA pic.twitter.com/iAZNZlgdXs
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
WHO DAT NATION, this is how we do Super Sunday! (Photos by Michael DeMocker, https://t.co/UKrKZyBsHr | The Times-Picayune) #saints #whodat #nola #whodatnation #sundayfunday pic.twitter.com/W8vyEOil8F
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
'I need therapy!' Fan laments blown call's effect on fans. #boycottbowl #whodat #beon4 #BoycottSuperBowl pic.twitter.com/OjugOmCmdg
— WWL-TV (@WWLTV) February 3, 2019
#WhoDat #BoyCottBowl #Saints fans turn their anger into a a reason to party⚜️⚜⚜#BestFans pic.twitter.com/zqbYPuV34e
— ⚜⚜⚜ (@RealOverHere100) February 4, 2019
#BoycottBowl is INSANE. #WHODAT pic.twitter.com/D3odd5Z1P0
— Jon DeTrinis (@JonDeTrinis) February 3, 2019
Y’all Gon Make Me Lose My Mind #BoycottBowl #WhoDat #Saints pic.twitter.com/6athZZgObv
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 3, 2019
#BoycottBowl Only in New Orleans pic.twitter.com/tKGDi4ROGP
— Patrick “Diddy” Robertson (@Made_Man_5) February 4, 2019
Performing at the Boycott Bowl in New Orleans. I changed some of the words to "When The Saints Go Marching In". – Fred#cowboymouth #boycottbowl #saints #whodat pic.twitter.com/MuSGDcjy5b
— Cowboy Mouth (@CowboyMouth) February 4, 2019
This day will definitely go down in the history books 📖 🙌🏾 #BoycottBowl pic.twitter.com/AhS95hrr2O
— J.Randall 🎥 (@youngtrvllnig_) February 4, 2019
We’ve officially reached that level New Orleans #BoycottBowl pic.twitter.com/LpIJ094LZ1
— NOLA.com Saints News (@SaintsNOW) February 4, 2019
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