FORT LAUDERDALE, FLA. – If there is a prototype Who Dat, James Carville would be. The Ragin ‘Cajun’s funny, passionate, colorful and lovable.
james_carville.jpgTed Jackson / The Times-PicayuneSuper Bowl XLVII radio host James Carville running the Super Bowl media center in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, in an interview with Adam peronality lived appearance on Sirius Radio Thursday.The political strategist and commentator, and with the death of New Orleans Saints since their first season in 1967, when he races at the weekend there while working for a law degree from LSU.
And like all saints longtime supporter, Carville passion masks a deep-seated insecurity, formed after years of heartbreaking losses.
He admitted Thursday that he for winning Garrett Hartley field goal split the posts pessimistic against the Vikings in the NFC Championship Game.
“I do not think that through the ball,” said Carville.
To the delight of Carville and his wife, and political pundit Mary Matalin converted’ve Saints fan. Now the duo to their advertising act as co-chairman of the attack of the New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee XLVII with a clear conscience.
“Was all I could think of, I to Miami for five days, it’s a Vikings-Colts game and I’m sick to my stomach to be,” said Carville. “This is the last thing I want to do is all promotional things for the city, all of these meetings. Now (It’s) wow – Nirvana.”
Consequently Carville worked for the Super Bowl XLIV Press Center as a whirling dervish Thursday. Now a full-time New Orleans resident, he spread the gospel to all Mike lives in the house, from ESPN to NFL Network to Sporting News.
The climax came in Carville’s radio show on Sirius XM, the radio talk show host Bobby Hebert WWL singing woke the sleeping senior print journalists in a raw display of the Who Dat.
On the set of NFL Network, he converted “Total Access” host Rich Eisen and analysts Warren Sapp and Jim L. Mora.
“We are not just a city,” said Carville, NOPD dressed in a brown hat and yellow T-Shirt Super Bowl XLVII. “We have our own culture and developed. We have our own music, our food, our own language, our own funeral, our architecture and our own literature …. If you are not part of the culture, you can ‘t understand. ”
The world, “said Carville, will understand how the distinctive character of New Orleans culture, when it comes to the city for the Super Bowl XLVII in 2013.
South Florida Shadows New Orleans as the most frequent host city for the annual presentation of the league event. This is the 10th Time that the Miami-Fort Lauderdale is hosting the Super Bowl. New Orleans was the host played nine times. No. 10 comes in 2013.
But Carville has his way, New Orleans will once again take place again in the regular Super Bowl rotation. That would be welcome news for the many journalists who have excessive round-trip cab fares and have to endure hour shuttle runs between points in the week. A return trip from the hotel of the Colts in Fort Lauderdale Beach Hotel to the Saints in downtown Miami to Sun Life Stadium in Miami Gardens include nearly 70 miles.
The distance drastically diluted the game. They play a great football game Sunday, but it would be difficult, in Fort Lauderdale, where the press center is trapped in a jungle of strip malls and plazas antiseptic office to tell.
“If you took a poll at this point, can not wait for these guys to go to New Orleans,” said Carville. “We are the ideal Super Bowl city. And one of the things I hope we can do in 2013, is really kicking in and that in a normal rotation, we advance. We are doing this. I think we have to go far momentum into 2013. ”
Perhaps by that time should have settled the city of Saints beat the Colts on Sunday. A Super Bowl victory for the Saints, “said Carville, the positive momentum already in force would accelerate in the city, and make a lifetime memory for his daughters, Emma and Matty. He told them that you have in the day as he epic Billy Cannon’s Point swap for LSU in 1959.
“It may sound corny, but there is something here at work,” he said. “The hand of Providence is more than this. This is something that is so rich and so important in many ways.
“I can not say that the views of” It’s just a football crowd, “he said sarcastically.” Shut up. They understand what’s happening. ”
Spoken like a true Who Dat.

