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"I'm emotionally connected to that team forever," Paul said this week. "I still love that city. I always will. It's going to be crazy to be in a different uniform, especially playing against them. I'm so emotionally attached to the city and that team." There's a fondness for Paul here as well, but let's be clear: This city's heart belongs to the Saints. They dominated any discussion Wednesday, and they had the town emotionally rattled. The best way to summarize the local mood is to recount the story a bar owner told me about a regular customer who gave up drinking alcohol for Lent and stuck to his vow -- even on St. Patrick's Day -- until he learned of the Saints' penalties and came in for some Jameson whiskey.

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