Washington (CNN) -- President Obama on Saturday defended his party's efforts to shore up America's battered economy and exhorted his fellow Democrats to stay steady and focused in the face of grass-roots restlessness.
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Two-time New Orleans mayor - and charter member of Who Dat Nation - Marc H. Morial wouldn’t dream of missing the Saints’ first Super Bowl appearance.
“I was there at the very first game the Saints ever played,” said Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League. “They scored a touchdown on the very first play, and everybody thought at that moment we’d go to the Super Bowl that year.”Morial counts that 94 -yard kickoff return by John Gilliam among his fondest football memories, but the Saints lost that game to the Los Angeles Rams.
Three years later, Morial would witness another historic Saints moment when Tom Depsey kicked a record-breaking 63-yard field goal to defeat the Detroit Lions in the final seconds of the game. The record has never been broken.
But the Saints would wait more than two decades for their first winning season, and Morial was standing on the sidelines when, in 2000, the Saints defeated the defending Super Bowl champion St. Louis Rams to win their first playoff game.
