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A different kind of scene at this Super Bowl.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
NEW ORLEANS _ Bourbon Street. Midnight. On the asphalt, a river of humanity flows. Also, a river of the various liquids humanity can produce.
Much of the liquid has been spilled out of plastic cups. The rest? Let's just call it unidentified. In the nearby door of a sleazy adult bar, a smiling woman holds up a sign: "WASH THE GIRL OF YOUR CHOICE." A few doors away, in a gift-shop window, another sign: "MARDI GRAS BEADS AND AUTHENTIC SUPER BOWL MERCHANDISE."
Officially licensed madness, times two. That's what we'll have here over the next few days.
It is Super Bowl weekend. But it is also Mardi Gras, the traditional Louisiana carnival season that features parades, masked looniness, beads, dancing...and at least a few cleanly scrubbed females.
After covering 20 Super Bowls, you start to wonder if there are any new angles. No problem this time. Talk about your fascinating sociological experiments. This is the ninth Super Bowl that has been staged in New Orleans. But because of a scheduling shuffle, for the first time, the largest (and often most ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 15, 2002 700+ words
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire February 1, 2002 700+ words
...Orleans this weekend to participate in Super Bowl XXXVI festivities and the following week for Mardi Gras. Anticipating a significant demand on...placed in the Louisiana Superdome, site of Super Bowl XXXVI, on Sunday, Feb. 3. Two cells...
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- Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) November 11, 2001 700+ words
...important. With Mardi Gras and the Super Bowl all wrapped up...scheduling the Super Bowl on one of the weekends that Mardi Gras parades are usually...Feb. 2 and 3, Super Bowl festivities will...day stint of Mardi Gras parades will...
- BOLD Outdoor Media Creates Giant Impact for General Motors at Super Bowl XXXVI;...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire January 23, 2002 700+ words
...the Cadillac CTS and for the Super Bowl XXXVI advertising mix. In...January 26-29, the annual Mardi Gras celebration which began on January 6 and runs through Mardi Gras Day on February 12 and Super Bowl XXXVI on Sunday, February...
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- Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) September 17, 2004 700+ words
...Morton's Salt girl - only in a splash of Mardi Gras colors. That's the plan from the minds...Backstage Dance. "We don't have a Mardi Gras celebration here. People use Halloween...nudity that have come to characterize Mardi Gras festivities along New Orleans' notorious...
- WASHINGTON SCENE WACKIER THAN USUAL IT'S LIKE THE SUPER BOWL AND MARDI GRAS...
- Newspaper article from: Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO) August 18, 1998 700+ words
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- Belleville, Ill., Sees Mardi Gras Trinket Boom.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News February 26, 2003 700+ words
...1701 W. Main St., said Mardi Gras "has gotten bigger every...Fairview Heights, said Mardi Gras is the second-biggest...unless the Rams go to the Super Bowl. His store sells an assortment of Mardi Gras gear, including beads and...
