The New Orleans Times-Picayune has a great, detailed article on Jimmy and his history with the New Orleans Saints: “Jimmy Buffett bleeds black and gold for the Super Bowl-bound New Orleans Saints”

In 1967, the then-unknown, 20-year-old singer-songwriter took a break from Bourbon Street to attend the Saints franchise’s first regular season game in Tulane Stadium.

Nearly 43 years later, Buffett, now a multifaceted, multi-millionaire entertainer/ entrepreneur, piloted his own Falcon 900 jet from an island in the South Pacific to New Orleans for the NFC Championship Game.

In between was “43 years of Lent,” Buffett said this week. “But once I went to that first game, they were my team for life.”

His celebrity – and the fact that Saints coach Sean Payton is a fan — affords Buffett opportunities not available to the average Who Dat. He celebrated the Saints’ Jan. 24 victory over the Vikings in the locker room.

With Sunday’s Super Bowl XLIV set in south Florida, just up U.S. Route 1 from Buffett’s spiritual home in Key West, his Saints fever is spiking.

“People don’t understand what that NFC championship game meant,” he said. “It was an incredible football game, an incredible battle. But it was also a renaissance, a rebirth from horrible years of suffering through being a Saints fan, to surviving a hurricane.”

To Buffett, the win reinforced that “there’s something on the other side.”

Be sure to read the full article here.

Here’s video of the Saints locker room after the NFC Championship game. You can see Buffett in the video:

Congratulations to Wayne-O for winning this week’s caption contest, and with it winning a copy of Buffett’s Christmas album “Christmas Island”.

Here was the photo:

And here was Wayne-O’s winning caption:

“I’m not joking coach! I will play for GUMBO!!!”

Out of 432 votes cast, Wayne-O received 120 votes (28%). Runner up was Derek with “Hey Coach, I got a great new play for you….we set up FINS to the Left and FINS to the right, then we run right up the middle for the touchdown!”

Here are the full results:

• “I’m not joking coach! I will play for GUMBO!!!” – Wayne-O (120 votes, 28%)
• “Hey Coach, I great new play for you….we set up FINS to the Left and FINS to the right, then we run right up the middle for the touchdown!” – Derek (109 votes, 25%)
• “I told that Nun back in Mobile that there’s more than one way of becoming a SAINT!” – Timmy (93 votes, 21%)
• “Hey Coach! I told you we should have stopped at Margaritaville AFTER the game, not before!!!” – Andrew (55 votes, 13%)
• “Coach of Somewhere Hot?? Yeah, that’s a good one Sean!!” – Chris Austin (55 votes, 13%)

View all of the captions that were submitted here.

Congratulations to Wayne-O for winning this week’s caption contest! Thanks to everyone who entered and to everyone who voted.

This week we showed you the below picture and asked you to provide your own caption for it. We’ve compiled five of our favorites and want you to vote on your favorite. This week’s voting carries more weight than usual… the winner will receive a copy of Jimmy Buffett’s Christmas album: “Christmas Island”.

Here was the picture:

Time for another Buffett Caption Contest! This week’s photo is below… it’s Jimmy walking off the football field with New Orleans Saints coach Sean Payton.

We want you to provide your own caption for this photo. Put your creative hat on and submit your caption in the comments section of this article.

On Sunday we’ll pick a few of the best captions and put them in a poll for everyone to vote on. The poll will close on Wednesday and the highest vote-getter will receive a copy of Jimmy’s Christmas album “Christmas Island”.