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A full gallery of personal pictures from my experience at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome yesterday for the Saints' regular season home opener against the Minnesota Vikings.
The Advocate put special prints of their paper on each seat.
Closeup of The Advocate
Mickey posing for a photo op.
Father and son are identical .
Imparting words of football wisdom.
Payton chats with Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer and introduces his son before the game.
The Benson family. Tom needed a lot of help.
Brees warming up.
Drew warming up.
The luscious locks of Rob Ryan are in full action.
The guy sitting next to me knew Rita personally. She came over to say hello.
The offense watches the defensive starters get announced.
Jairus Byrd is introduced.
Corey White emerges from the fog. The defense was introduced as a nickel package.
Drew runs off the field after his first touchdown throw.
This was one of the extra points that he made.
Jennifer Hale working...hey, what's that guy looking at!?!?
Ah, now I get it.
I would have the same shot as those photographers if they would just get out of the way.
Brian Dixon goes down with a hand injury.
Tradition
Defense takes a breather during a timeout.
Teddy Bridgewater fails to get his team into the end zone.
Brandin Cooks after a big reception.
The Jackson State Marching Band is the halftime performance.
Sonic Boom of the South
Drew is calling out instructions at the line.
Roster with notes for the sideline cameramen, taped to their camera.
Hey! Look who else was at the game!
Jonathan Goodwin gets carted off the field.
Saintsations have started getting more involved.
Drew Brees after getting body slammed.
Celebrating after Colston's crucial touchdown catch.
Payton holds court with the offensive line late in the game.
Victory formation.
They've already added 2014 to the Season Sell Outs banner. Running out of room.