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MIAMI -- Nine days before the Super Bowl, the early indications here in South Florida are that Saints fans will outnumber Colts fans at Sun Life Stadium on Super Bowl Sunday.Based on my own unscientific poll of hotel staffers and ticket brokers, everyone seems to agree that far more rooms and tickets have been booked this week by people from Louisiana than by people from Indiana.
The main reason, it would seem, is that Saints fans are swept up in the energy their team has brought to their beleaguered city -- energized enough that they're willing to spend a few thousand dollars on a trip to the game. The fans of Indianapolis, on the other hand, have never traveled in large numbers to see the Colts, and the few Colts fans who are willing to follow their team across America aren't as inclined to make the same trip to Miami that they made when the Colts were in the Super Bowl here just three years ago.
But while Saints fans will attend the game in substantial numbers, don't expect them to give the team any real home-field advantage. There probably won't be as many Saints fans here this year as there were Steelers fans in Tampa last year, and anyway, tens of thousands of Super Bowl tickets go to the corporate types who don't much care which team wins. There's no way for the Super Bowl to have the kind of atmosphere that the Saints had for the NFC Championship Game.
So there will be an impressive New Orleans presence in Miami. But the Super Bowl won't feel like the Superdome.
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