[StBernard] Sen. Osama Obama on the New Orleans Saints

[Westley Annis]

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Obama to Saints: 'This fairy tale ends'
08:16 AM CST on Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Associated Press

 
 HARVEY, IL -- New Orleans' football season is all but over. 
 
 
 
Associated Press
Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)
 
 
 That's the message Sen. Barack Obama, D-IL., has for Saints fans when their
team comes to Chicago for Sunday's NFC championship game. 
 
 
 "The Bears are going to the Super Bowl," a gleeful Obama told reporters
Monday outside a church in suburban Chicago. "I am happy for New Orleans. I
think it's a wonderful story for their city, but this fairy tale ends when
they come to Chicago." 
 
 
 The winner of the Saints-Bears matchup will head to Miami to play either
the Indianapolis Colts or New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 4. 
 
 
 The athletic prediction from the state's junior senator, considered an
early favorite for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, struck
little fear into Louisiana's congressional delegation. 
 
 
 "All I'll say is that the Saints reflect the same spirit of hope and
recovery that the people of New Orleans have," said Adam Sharp, a spokesman
for Sen. Mary Landrieu, D-La. "Every challenge that comes up and is put in
front of them, they surmount every one. And we're looking forward to the
game." 
 
 
 Obama said he was pleased with quarterback Rex Grossman during the Bears'
27-24 overtime win against Seattle. 
 
 
 "The defense bent but it did not break," he said. "And Grossman looked all
right." 
 
 
 (Copyright 2007 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)