Saints Make Local Fans Proud

The Saints made history last night in their first Superbowl Win....they also made a lot of fans very proud. Some of their fans now call Chattanooga home-displaced after Katrina- and say new orleans deserved this win.

"The forecast is probably sunny but I think everybody is probably looking out for snow. That's been the joke for years now- you know. If the saints win the superbowl, it's probably gonna snow," said Jared Callais.

If that were true- there would be a blizzard today in Louisiana.

Jared Callais is from Galliano, a small town near the gulf. He moved here a year ago but says last nights victory was a lifelong dream.

"It was an incredible game. I'm not very old, I'm 24. All my lifetime the saints have not been very great. And so this is the first year that the saints have been doing well," said Callais.

For Robby Gallaty, the senior pastor at Brainerd Baptist Church, the win meant something else.

"It was a time of hope for the city, so I think that's what that game meant. I was telling people the saints were destined to win. I think it was a good tim e for the city. And encouragement for them," Gallaty said.

Gallaty and his wife were living in Louisiana when Katrina hit.

"We lost everything we owned. And the eye of the storm actually came through Chalmette before it went through New Orleans and we lost everything we owned. We had 8 feet of water in our house. My parents had 12. My sister had 15 feet of water."

Gallaty says he believes the saints are not just New Orleans team, or even Louisiana's team. He says the support and love of the saints goes much further than that.

"And so I like to say it was the Nations team. The nation kinda got around this team," said Gallaty.

A team, that made all its fans- at home and abroad- very proud.

"Just for saints fans, this is history, the first time they've been this close and to win it? It's just the perfect year [...] Who dat say they gonna beat them saints?" said Callais.

Schools in New Orleans were cancelled today and tomorrow and a parade will go marching through the city tomorrow in celebration.