{"id":749539,"date":"2026-02-13T15:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749539\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T15:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T15:27:15","slug":"flashback-friday-saints-take-the-parade-route","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/749539\/","title":{"rendered":"Flashback Friday, Saints take the parade route"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Carnival is always changing. Black masking Indians sew a new suit each year, bands learn new songs, parading organizations select new themes, new throws, new kings and new celebs. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/entertainment_life\/mardi_gras\/mardi-gras-2026-drew-brees-lane-kiffen\/article_fe3ba912-4c9f-439c-a625-c1e89f61b522.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"What&#039;s new for New Orleans&#039; Mardi Gras weekend 2026? New floats, dance krewes and more.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>An 18-game NFL season is coming. It&#8217;s not a matter of if but when it happens. NFL commissioner Roger Goodell wants it. Team owners want it. And by and large, fans want it. <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" style=\"word-break: break-word\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nola.com\/sports\/saints\/an-18-game-nfl-schedule-might-affect-new-orleans-mardi-gras\/article_b9da2ed2-0772-4f1b-b435-c2be679b6d2f.html\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Jeff Duncan: The NFL wants an 18-game schedule. Here\u2019s what it means for New Orleans Super Bowls.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SEE MORE&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carnival is always changing. Black masking Indians sew a new suit each year, bands learn new songs, parading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2076],"tags":[7,81,2003,896,55,2572,2571,6,397],"class_list":{"0":"post-749539","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-orleans-saints","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-latest-news","10":"tag-morning-break","11":"tag-new-orleans","12":"tag-new-orleans-saints","13":"tag-neworleans","14":"tag-neworleanssaints","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-saints"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116064029896404736","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}