NEW ORLEANS — It’s just a quick hop east from the LSU purple-and-gold of Baton Rouge to the Saints’ black-and-gold New Orleans, about 80 miles on Interstate 10 until you see the Superdome.

I arrived not long ago in the Crescent City on a bright Sunday afternoon, after Mass at St. George Catholic Church near the bast bank of the Mississippi River not far from Port Allen.

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