"The young Baptist minister plucked the New Orleans Saints replica helmet, complete with a moldy flood line across its tarnished fleur-de-lis, from the ruins of the Upper 9th Ward after Hurricane Katrina. Since then he has stored it in a foam ice chest, pulling it out only when he needs a powerful didactic tool to place on the pulpit during sermons.

Now, as the perennially losing football franchise heads to its first Super Bowl, he wants to give it back to its original owner."