As Floridians know, we battle hurricanes every year. Florida was hit big in 2004 with Hurricanes Charley, Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne, which left most Floridians without power for days, hundreds of fallen trees, many commercial buildings were destroyed, it left many homeowners needing new roofs, lots of repair, and it took months to clean up.

August 29th, 2005. Louisiana was hit with Hurricane Katrina, one of the five deadliest hurricanes in US history. Hurricane Katrina especially affected the Greater New Orleans area. It left 1,836 people confirmed dead and at least 705 missing,

February 7th, 2010. The Saints’ Superbowl victory was a prayer answered in this struggling city, which seemed different because of it.

The Saints kept hope alive in New Orleans that better days were coming. They were the force that kept everyone moving forward.

Hurricane Katrina battered the Saints and even knocked them out of town for a while, as it did to many New Orleanians in 2005. Now the team is better than ever!

The Saints were temporarily relocated to San Antonio after Katrina. In exile like the rest of the city, the players lived out of hotels and did weight training at Gold’s Gyms. They went 3-13 that season and for a while practiced at a high school.

"It shows the rest of the country that we have resilient people and this is a city of winners," said Dwight Henry, 46, a co-owner of the Buttermilk Drop bakery and cafe off St. Claude Avenue near the Lower 9th Ward, one of the areas hardest hit by Katrina."Since Katrina, we've been able to start successfully from the bottom," said Henry, whose business was badly flooded. "We couldn't go anywhere lower."

New Orleanians say that they have all been sinking, why bother rebuild it, there was so much of that attitude. Thanks to the Super Bowl win, Americans will view the city in the positive light that it deserves.

And on Sunday, after just their ninth winning season in their 43 years, the Saints became champions. Long-suffering fans throughout the city shot off fireworks, danced in the streets and on rooftops, and celebrated a team, and maybe a city, reborn.

This team has allowed New Orleans to get past Katrina and look forward to better things. For now, though, it seems the sky's the limit, and the Saints' Super Bowl title is the reason.