Mardi Grass Gold

Power and what we do with it

In February of 2010, New Orleans felt ten feet tall.

The Saints had just won Super Bowl XUV. A city that had endured Katrina, economic uncertainty, and decades of heartbreak suddenly had something it had never experienced before. A Super Bowl victory.

And just days later, Drew Brees didn’t retreat into celebrity. He climbed onto a Mardi Gras float.

Crowned King of Bacchus, dressed in a Roman-style tu…