The 11th Super Bowl hosted by New Orleans is finally at hand after years of planning and months of feverishly fixing up the French Quarter and downtown. New Orleans’ pre-Super Bowl scramble was like a last-minute, city-wide house cleaning before company arrives. The disruption of January’s once-in-a-century snowstorm didn’t help.

Super Bowl 59 will mark the eighth time the Superdome has hosted NFL's crowning event, the most of any stadium in the history of the game. It's also the 11th time the city has hosted the Super Bowl. The first three Super Bowls were played at Tulane Stadium, which ties New Orleans with Miami for the most of any city.