The city of New Orleans is still bitter over the way it lost to the NFC Championship Game to the Los Angeles Rams two weeks ago and obviously feels like the Saints should've been the team representing the NFC in Super Bowl 53 against the New England Patriots on Sunday night.
On Monday morning, a local New Orleans paper pretended that the Super Bowl didn't even happen:
New Orleans’ local paper is championship level petty. 😂 pic.twitter.com/MTGqFR2j4H
— Pierre Thomas (@Pierre_Thomas) February 4, 2019
It may as well have not even occurred as far as Louisiana residents are concerned.
Super Bowl 53 drew the lowest rating in New Orleans of any Super Bowl in history, earning a mark of 26.1. Not only that, but New Orleans posted the worst rating of any media market in the country on Sunday evening.
Honestly, it's hard to blame the fans.
The Saints appeared to be in the driver's seat in the NFC Championship Game against the Rams two weeks ago, having the ball in the red zone in a tie game late in the fourth quarter.
You know the rest of the story.
On third down, Drew Brees lofted a pass to Tommylee Lewis, who was clearly interfered with by Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman. Plus, Robey-Coleman applied a helmet-to-helmet hit, so there should have been two fouls on the play.
The problem is, no flags were thrown.
New Orleans was forced to settle for a field goal on fourth down, giving the Saints a 23-20 lead and giving Los Angeles time to come right back down the field and tie the game with a field goal of its own to force overtime.
The Rams then won on a 57-yard boot by Greg Zuerlein in the extra session.
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