My Visit to NOLA

Hey Saints Fans! Its Percy Harvin My Fav(!), Im sure most of you know me by now. And well if you dont then know you do :)

Just last week I traveled to New Orleans with thousands of churches over the US and I had a chance to take a look at your guys' beautiful city.

Being a Viking fan, one can only think about how excited I was at coming to the Big Easy. All the months that led up to my departure, I was bittersweet about going for A) This was one of the States biggest tourist places and B) This is the City that ripped my heart out, stomped all over it, Drowned it in the Gulf of Mexico only to resuscitate it at the last possible second... Okay I may have exaggerated there but you understand my point, New Orleans was NOT my most desired place to spend a week being a faithful and passionate Viking Fan. Upon arriving into Jackson Lousianna, I noticed that there was water everywhere on the side of the roads. Being a miseducated person of the City, I naturally assumed that this was New Orleans and that was from Katrina. I was wrong about the part about it being New Orleans and im pretty sure I was wrong about Katrina too.

When all was said and done and I left New Orleans, my view on coming was completely obscured. New Orleans quickly became one of my favorite cities in the US. I came into interact with many Saints fans and not once was I belittled, made fun of, ridiculed or anything of that nature, BUT I was greeted to a variety of football knowledge and football savvy fans. Even while wearing my Percy Harvin jersey through the French Quarter and Bourbon Street, I wasn't harassed in the slightest. That was one of my favorite things about your city. Here are some others

SuperDome- A fair comparison between your Dome and ours is something to the effect of Eminem and Wocka Flocka, with yours being Eminem. Easily the second best stadium I've ever been to (For first see "Target Field"), just everything there is made to the T and I had no complaints about it.

Convention Center- Very spacious and very cool.

Restaurants- Wow! Mulattes, Mothers, Hard Rock, and the Mariotti (I think) Hotel Restaurant were by far some of the best I've ever eaten at. With a BIG shout out to Mulattes. The Fried Chicken Po'Boy was well worth the $14.

The Tour Guys- Swamp Guy and the City Tour Guy were VERY informative and entertaing at the same time, and you dont find that combination a lot.

The City Itself- Just an Amazing city through and through, with nice people, pretty good weather compared for what they told us it would be, and a positive atmosphere.

Only Dislike of your city was the fact that we were assigned the Queen and Crescent Hotel. If you're looking for a Hotel in New Orleans, I wouldnt have the Q&C at the top of your list. A lot of problems with that hotel but I digress.

You guys are very blessed with an amazing city.

Finally I wanna thank you for all of you that live in the residential area or have to commute into the Downtown part of the city for holding all 25,000 of us. Im sure if you were anywhere near New Orleans last week that you saw one of those lime green backpacks, and if you went into the City everyday, you now probably HATE the color of limes and the fruit itself.

Sincerely, Percy