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Former Football Player To Open New Orleans Restaurant

The latest sports celebrity with a restaurant will be former New Orleans Saints quarterback Archie Manning. Manning will open a restaurant in association with the Harrah's Hotel and Casino complex in downtown New Orleans. The restaurant, called Manning's, will be on Fulton Street and will have a bar and a courtyard. Groundbreaking is scheduled for the first of the year and the restaurant is scheduled to open in fall 2011. No word on what type of food will be served yet but there have been rumors that it will be a sports bar. The Fulton Square area is already home to Ruth's Chris, Gordon Biersch Restaurant, Grand Isle and Ernst Cafe.

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Saints Super Bowl Rings Handed Out, You Can Win One

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Jewelry, Sports

Women aren't the only ones who love little blue boxes from Tiffany's. The 2009 New Orleans Saints got their Super Bowl XLIV championship rings at a ceremony at the city's Roosevelt Hotel on Wednesday June 16. The rings were designed by Tiffany & Co. and feature a bunch of touches that resonate with fans of the Saints and their city. The rings are yellow gold and feature the New Orleans Saints fleur-de-lis logo set with round diamonds. The words "world champions" are set into the bezel of the ring with eight diamonds on each side (a total of 16 symbolizing the games the Saints won during the season). The rings also bear the score of the game, the NFL shield, images of the St. Louis Cathedral in Jackson Square and the Louisiana Superdome, a scene from the championship parade and the first few notes of the song "When The Saints Come Marching In." The underside of the ring bears inscriptions of team mottoes from last season: Be Special; Finish Strong; and Smell Greatness.

No precise estimate was given but they are believed to have a value of around $30,000 each. One ring wasn't there, it will be raffled off to raise money to benefit the relief efforts for the Gulf Coast oil spill. The winner will be announced at the nationally televised New Orleans Saints season opener on September 9, 2010. The winner will receive the ring and a cash prize in the amount of $2,178 to mitigate the winner's tax liability that results from winning the raffle. The proceeds benefit the New Orleans Saints Charitable Foundation and the Celebrities for Charity Foundation. Raffle tickets are $2 each with a minimum order of 5 tickets. The Saints organization hopes to raise as much as $1 million through the effort.

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Super Bowl Towns Put Their Art On The Line

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Art, Sports

Mayors of towns involved in sports conflicts often get into betting deals (usually involving food) but it's not so ordinary to have rival museum directors representing local pride. Art Daily reports that museum directors Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and E. John Bullard, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director and CEO of the New Orleans Museum of Art have agreed to a Super Bowl wager. The pair began talking via Twitter and have decided that the losing town's museum will make a three-month loan of a significant work of art to the museum in the city whose NFL team wins the Super Bowl on February 7, 2010. Should the Indianapolis Colts win, the landscape painting "Ideal View of Tivoli", 1644, by French artist Claude Lorrain will head from New Orleans to Indianapolis. Should the New Orleans Saints be victorious, "The Fifth Plague of Egypt", 1800, a landscape by British artist J.M.W. Turner will spend a few months in new Orleans. The paintings were decided on after a Twitter war that took trash talking to a new eruidite level.

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