Mardi Grass Gold

Power and what we do with it

Mardi Grass Gold
Mardi Grass Gold

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…