The parade will be televised on Cox and we will have on all the tv's at BLUZ. Happy Hour is from 4-7 and we will be Abita draft specials all night. Old Bull Young Bull will start playing at 9pm to continue the "Lombardi Gras" celebration.
This is going to be the parade to end all parades....
NOPD Command Van
Kern Command Van
LSP Command Van
JPSO Command Van
New Orleans Police Horse Wedge
MetroScan Traffic
Air Effects - Air Star with Saints Logo
USMC Color Guard
USMC Reserve Forces Marching Band
NOFD Steam Engine
Storyville Stompers
NOFD Chief and Other Metro Fire Chiefs
St Augustine High School - Purple Knights
Budweiser Clydesdales
Brother Martin High School - Crusaders
Float 1 - Endymion Grand Marshall: Mr and Mrs Benson / Rita Benson
Skytracker #1
McDonogh 35 High School Band - RonEagles
Float 2 - Bacchus King Float: Drew Brees / Sean Payton
Skytracker #2
O.Perry Walker High School
Float 3 - Rex Jester Float
Warren Easton High School - Fighting Eagles
Float 4 - Zulu Warrior Float
George Washington Carver High School
Float 5 - Alla-Gator
Tulane University Band - Green Wave
Float 6 - Ceasar Officers Float
Jesuit High School - Blue Jays
Float 7 - Tucks Ship
St Mary Academy Band
Float 8 - Muses Shoe
Roots of Music
610 Stompers / Pussyfooters
Float 9 - Orpheus Smokey Mary
Edna Karr Jr High Band
Float 10 - United States Navy Band
Martin Luther King Middle School
Jefferson Parish Streetcar Float
Sophie Wright Middle School
Plaquemine Parish High Water Emergency Response Vehicle
I'm watching the parade on WBRZ online, and I believe Ray Nagin is drunk. He will not shut up and keeps saying "What do I have to lose, I only got 83 more days!"
Nagin always seems just a little bit stoned to me. Pretty sure Hartley and Payton had a few cocktails, too, but they sure deserve to let loose a little.
Wow, did you see the size of those crowds????? Huge, even by Bacchus/Orpheus/Endymion standards.
I loved the St. Aug marching band (Punzy told me that they are called St. Aug, not St. Augustine). Any way, their drum majors were GETTIN' DOWN!!! So fun to watch!