NEW ORLEANS — Perhaps more than any other place on Earth, the Big Easy loves a party.
Mardi Gras, the ultimate carnival, lasts only a few dizzying weeks. Charlie Kertz opened his bar at the corner of Apple and Cambronne streets a week before Mardi Gras in 1966, but when the city was awarded an NFL franchise nine months later — on All Saints Day — he came up with a way to extend those good times through the entire year.
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