The Super Bowl was watched by more than 106 million people, surpassing the 1983 finale of "M*A*S*H" to become the most-watched program in television history.

The Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints are celebrating Mardi Gras-style. Carnival floats carrying players, coaches and team owner Tom Benson started rolling through downtown New Orleans for a victory parade Tuesday.

People lined up by the hundreds to buy Monday's Times-Picayune, which hollered "AMEN!" from its front page. The Saints' Super Bowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, and New Orleans itself seemed different for it.

Drew Brees turned to his wife when he woke up and asked: "Did yesterday really happen?" The Saints and their fans awoke Monday to the realization that the once lovable losers from New Orleans were Super Bowl champions for the first time in the club's 43-year history after Sunday's 31-17 triumph over the Indianapolis Colts.

Jeremy Shockey wasn't in a suite for this Super Bowl. Instead, he was part of the New Orleans Saints' sweetest victory. Shockey hauled in a touchdown catch for the go-ahead score Sunday night, helping the Saints beat the Indianapolis Colts 31-17 for their first Super Bowl championship.

Rosenthal: New Orleans is a city that understands what it means to live in the moment. On Sunday night, in the first Super Bowl appearance in the Saints' 43-year history, they played in the moment. They coached in the moment. And they won it all as a result.

Purdue grad Brees wins title, plus New Orleans 'needed a morale boost'

Celizic: Peyton Manning's the guy who's seen as the prototypical quarterback and is perhaps the player every NFL general manager seeks when assembling a team. Perhaps that will start to change now that Drew Brees out-performed Manning on the NFL's biggest stage.

Almost 4 years after flooding from Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans and nearly chased the Saints out of town for good, the club's first Super Bowl win may well represent the city's rebirth.

Hoarse, hungover and happy, New Orleans woke up Monday wondering if that Super Bowl thing really happened.

Peyton Manning spent the whole season building toward a Super Bowl crown, a win that certainly would put him among the greatest quarterbacks in NFL history. And then he threw it all away.

Louisiana native Tracy Porter played a crucial role in the New Orleans Saints' magical run to a Super Bowl title and their victory over the Indianapolis Colts. A second-round draft pick out of Indiana, who grew up in Port Allen, across the Mississippi River from Baton Rouge, Porter watched the Saints every Sunday with his family and friends. He remembers bags on the heads of embarrassed fans during the lean years.