Mardi Gras floats with bead-tossing revelers cruised through New Orleans on Saturday as the city celebrated its record-tying 11th Super Bowl hosting gig with a stout security presence after a New Year's Day attack.

The New Orleans Super Bowl Host Committee parade is rolling through the Historic French Quarter and Downtown New Orleans Saturday, bringing NFL fans, athletes, celebrities, and more to the first-ever parade during Super Bowl week.

The thousands of football fans streaming into New Orleans this week for Super Bowl LIX are in for an extra treat. On Saturday morning at 10 a.m., a Mardi Gras-style parade, complete with 18 floats, bands, dance groups and flying beads, will roll through the heart of the city in celebration of Sunday’s big game.

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The sports world will focus on New Orleans for the Super Bowl on February 9. But this town, supremely experienced in throwing a party, has more in store than football.

From marching bands and Up With People to classic rockers to rappers and scantily clad pop stars, the Super Bowl halftime show has changed

When it comes to Super Bowl parades, we don't usually see one until a team actually wins the game, but in New Orleans, they do things differently and that's a big reason why the city decided to hold a parade the day BEFORE the Super Bowl.

Football fans in New Orleans were treated to a first of its kind Super Bowl Mardi Gras parade Shortsighted actions can have big-time consequences for retired workers. Irish super-featherweight boxer John Cooney dies after suffering a brain injury in last Saturday's defeat by Welshman Nathan Howells in Belfast.

Never a city short on color, New Orleans has been looking positively brightly adorned in recent days, as the city undergoes its makeover for Super Bowl LIX.