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REBECCA SANTANA (Associated Press) | Yahoo Sports
NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- From the ''Boycott Bowl'' to the ''Dunk the Referee'' tank, people in New Orleans are finding creative ways to spend Sunday doing anything but watching the Super Bowl.
As the rest of the country gathers to watch the New England Patriots face the Los Angeles Rams in the biggest football game of the year, Saints fans will be mourning a Super Bowl that might have been. An extensive list of bars and restaurants say they won't air the game and a wealth of alternative programming has sprouted up across the city for people to show their Who Dat spirit while boycotting the game.
''So many people wanted this and, more importantly, so many people needed this because we were robbed,'' said Kim Bergeron, a marketing and public relations specialist who put together one of three parades slated for Sunday.
Saints fans have been angry since the Jan. 20 NFC championship game and what has now become known as the infamous ''no-call.'' A Rams defensive back leveled a Saints receiver with a helmet-to-helmet hit at a crucial point in the final minutes of regulation time. The Rams went on to win the game and will play the Patriots Sunday in Atlanta.
NFL officials acknowledged after the game that flags should have been thrown, but that's done little to soothe the ire in New Orleans and the state. Even Gov. John Bel Edwards suggested on Twitter that he'll be checking out Netflix Sunday instead of the Super Bowl. ...
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