Blogger: Saints fans may have dominant presence at Super Bowl

Early indications are that there will be more New Orleans Saints fans in Miami for the Super Bowl than Indianapolis Colts fans. Michael David Smith, a blogger for AOL’s NFL FanHouse, says it seems fans from Louisiana have purchased more Miami-area hotel rooms and game tickets than people from Indiana. TicketsNow.com, an online retailer, noted last week that 15% of the people who bought Super Bowl tickets were from Louisiana, compared with 7% from Indiana—and that was before the Saints had clinched a trip to the game. The discrepancy is not surprising, Smith says, given that Colts fans have never traveled in big numbers to see their team, and the Saints’ first Super Bowl is a dream come true for thousands of fans. “But while Saints fans will attend the game in substantial numbers, don’t expect them to give the team any real home-field advantage,” says Smith, explaining that the tens of thousands of people who attend the game on corporate tickets will keep the atmosphere subdued.