All season NewOrleansSaints.com is taking a look back at special moments and traditions as we celebrate 50 seasons of Saints football.
Without the Storyville Jazz Band, there would have been no Benson Boogie.
Well, at least the postgame celebration which became Mr. B’s trademark during his early years of owning the franchise wouldn’t have been the same without the backing of the team’s Dixieland ensemble, usually tooting out “When the Saints Go Marching In.”
“The first couple of times they just used the piped-in music,” Bruce Hirstious, Storyville’s irrepressible trumpeter and leader said of the Boogie’s birth in the 1986 season, which also was Storyville’s first with the Saints.