Bill Text: MS HC96 | 2010 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: New Orleans Saints Football Team; commend and congratulate upon winning Super Bowl XLIV.
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2010-03-19 - Enrolled Bill Signed [HC96 Detail]
Download: Mississippi-2010-HC96-Enrolled.html
MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
2010 Regular Session
To: Rules
By: Representatives Palazzo, Bennett, Carpenter, Compretta, Currie, DeLano, Fillingane, Fredericks, Guice, Huddleston (15th), Ishee, Mayo, McGee, Monsour, Morgan, Nicholson, Nowell, Puckett, Stevens, Upshaw, Whittington, Zuber, Frierson, Akins, Aldridge, Arinder, Bailey, Baker (74th), Baker (8th), Banks, Barker, Beckett, Bell, Blackmon, Bondurant, Broomfield, Brown, Buck (5th), Buck (72nd), Burnett, Byrd, Calhoun, Campbell, Chism, Clark, Clarke, Cockerham, Coleman (29th), Coleman (65th), Dedeaux, Denny, Dickson, DuVall, Eaton, Ellington, Ellis, Espy, Evans (70th), Evans (91st), Flaggs, Formby, Gadd, Gardner, Gibbs, Gipson, Gunn, Hamilton (109th), Hamilton (6th), Harrison, Hines, Holland, Holloway, Horne, Howell, Huddleston (30th), Jennings, Johnson, Jones (111th), Jones (82nd), Lane, Malone, Martinson, Mayhall, McBride, McCoy, Middleton, Mims, Moak, Moore, Moss, Myers, Norquist, Parker, Patterson, Peranich, Perkins, Pigott, Read, Reed, Reynolds, Robinson, Rogers (14th), Rogers (61st), Scott, Shows, Smith (27th), Smith (39th), Snowden, Staples, Straughter, Stringer, Sullivan, Thomas, Turner, Walley, Ward, Warren, Watson, Weathersby, Woods, Wooten
House Concurrent Resolution 96
(As Adopted by House and Senate)
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION COMMENDING AND CONGRATULATING THE NEW ORLEANS SAINTS FOOTBALL TEAM FOR WINNING ITS FIRST SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONSHIP AT SUPER BOWL XLIV.
WHEREAS, forty-three years after the New Orleans Saints were awarded the sixteenth franchise to the National Football League in an announcement made by Commissioner Pete Rozelle at New Orleans' Pontchartrain Hotel on November 1, 1966, the team franchise launched a "just do it" campaign of insurrection against a sea of naysayers, allowing its tactical and strategic precision and accuracy in gridiron play to validate its hard-earned victory as the forty-fourth champions of the National Football League in Super Bowl XLIV, a rags-to-riches story for the ages; and
WHEREAS, the rallying 31-17 win by Coach Sean Payton, Quarterback Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints Football Team over the Indianapolis Colts on Super Bowl Sunday, February 7, 2010, in Miami's Sun Life Stadium, has restored the hopes of loyal and dedicated fans, resurrected the spirits of a city mounting a progressive comeback after suffering mass devastation as a result of the ravaging effects of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, which left 85% of the city submerged under water, and has inspired a throng of "Who Dat Nation" followers; and
WHEREAS, the 16 and 3 Saints won all three postseason games this season after winning only two in the previous 42 years, defeating Arizona, Minnesota and Indianapolis, all division winners, scoring 107 points and allowing only 59 in postseason action, which catapulted the team in capturing its first NFC Championship and first Super Bowl Championship in franchise history; and
WHEREAS, four and one-half years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans and the Mississippi Gulf Coast, displacing the Saints from their New Orleans Superdome home for the 2005 season and NFL's refusal to abandon the city that birthed and nurtured the Saints, the team became the symbol and energy behind the post-hurricane restoration of the City of New Orleans and the Gulf Coast Region; and
WHEREAS, the Saints, who triumphantly marched in with this victory as a testament of the culmination of the belief and faith of a team committed to reversing a past stifled with embarrassment, placed the burdens and pains of a city crying for help upon its shoulders and carried the hopes, dreams and aspirations of the entire city for the return of its pre-Katrina vitality all the way to the top with it; and
WHEREAS, Drew Brees, who was the MVP of the Super Bowl, tied a Super Bowl record with 32 completions on 39 attempts and threw for 288 yards, two TDs and no interceptions in a magnificent showing on the NFL's biggest stage, outdueling regular season MVP Peyton Manning and providing the leadership the Saints came to expect in this magical season; and
WHEREAS, Coach Sean Payton's onside kick call to start the second half worked like a charm and sent the Saints on their way as the 74,059 fans at the game saw the momentum and the game's pendulum of favor shift to the Saints' advantage in the second half; and
WHEREAS, the foundation for this miracle season was laid in Jackson when Coach Payton brought the team to the Millsaps College Campus for preseason practice in the 2006 and 2007 seasons which solidified the generations-old Mississippi fan base for the Saints; and
WHEREAS, former Saint and Ole Miss running back Deuce McAllister, named honorary Captain for the Super Bowl-winning Saints, conveyed the overwhelmingly unanimous sentiment of the team of the significance and importance of this coveted title as much more than just a game and victory for themselves, but a gigantic feat in boosting the morale and reinvigorating the desire to strive and persevere towards greatness par excellence of the city, the entire Gulf Coast region and Saints fans everywhere; and
WHEREAS, the State of Mississippi is historically and emotionally connected to the New Orleans Saints through the many years of leadership of former Saint and Ole Miss Quarterback Archie Manning, whose long-suffering career with the Saints is a matter of NFL legend; and
WHEREAS, after 43 years of futility and one of the finest quarterbacking performances ever delivered in a Super Bowl, the Saints rode on a wave of support of an entire city and perhaps an entire country; and
WHEREAS, it is with great pride that this Legislature honors and commends the accomplishments of the New Orleans Saints as an establishment of individuals deeply connected with the spirit of its community and zealously impassioned with the desire to revitalize the place they call home, that has inevitably become the land of "Who Dats":
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, THE SENATE CONCURRING THEREIN, That we do hereby commend and congratulate the New Orleans Saints Football Team, owner Tom Benson, Coach Sean Payton and MVP Quarterback Drew Brees for winning its first NFL Super Bowl Championship and extend best wishes for future successes.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That copies of this resolution be furnished to Saints owner, Tom Benson, Coach Sean Payton, Drew Brees and to the members of the Capitol Press Corps.
