He has won the Super Bowl. He was named the MVP of a 34-31 Baltimore
Ravens victory vs. the San Francisco 49ers. And he has a life-changing
announcement to make to his family.
It's 12:40 a.m., hours after
the 47th AFC-NFC Championship game, and Joe walks into Huck Finn's on
Decatur Street, a three-room French Quarter sports bar tucked away from
raucous Bourbon Street. Tonight the bar hosts a private party for Joe's
family and friends, 60 of them flown here at Joe's expense the week of
the biggest game of his life.
Wearing a long-sleeve gray shirt,
blue jeans and gray sneakers, Joe pushes open the door, grinning. The
party cheers his arrival, and before he can hug his wife, Dana, chants
of "M-V-P, M-V-P" fill the bar. Outside, Ravens fans in purple jerseys
crouch and peer through the window panes as an unassuming bouncer stands
guard at the door.
Joe, 28, dishes out dozens of hugs, each
female guest turning their face to the chest of the 6-5 quarterback from
New Jersey. Joe takes pictures too, and signs autographs for children
who bring footballs and jerseys.
Its 12:50 a.m., and Joe makes
his way slowly to the buffet line in the second room, where a bed of
jambalaya, penne pasta in alfredo sauce and blackened chicken breasts
lay waiting. Joe fills his plate and returns to the main room. Nine
televisions mounted into brick walls are tuned to ESPN and NFL
Network,Application can be conducted with the local designated IC card
producers. and party-goers down free beers and chat as Chris Berman
breathlessly relives the Super Bowl. Joe and his wife Dana gather their
four parents around the table.
Joe digs into his plate,
shoveling home mouthfuls of Cajun cuisine as guests walk up to shake his
hand and offer congratulations on the Super Bowl victory and MVP award.
Somebody hands Joe a soda in a hard plastic cup. Behind him, on a red
brick wall, rests a black and white picture of Hank Aaron, breaking his
bat on a baseball.Whilst the preparation of ceramic and porcelain tiles
are similar. Above and to the left of the 1957 NL MVP hangs a picture
of Babe Ruth, young, skinny and draped in a Red Sox uniform, taken some
years before he won the 1923 AL MVP award as a Yankee.
Joe hears
his name boom from a familiar voice. It's Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis
on the largest television in the room, interviewing with ESPN's Sal
Paolantonio minutes after the game. Cheeks bulging with food, Joe's head
pops up to look at the screen.'
Mom gets a long hug. She
doesn't know how long Joe and Dana have known Dana was pregnant. Their
first child is 71/2 months old, and Karen says the couple told their
parents they were expecting that child after a 2011 Thanksgiving night
victory over the 49ers in Baltimore.
"It's a 49ers tradition
now," Karen beams. "He's hit the trifecta. Somebody asks me if Joe was
going to go win the lottery tonight. I said, 'He already has.' "
Joe and Dana leave the party,Other companies want a piece of that iPhone headset
action exiting through a back door at 1:40 a.m. Karen says the husband
and wife, married in June 2011, are going to bed. Joe has a press
conference in the morning, then a trip to Disney World for the MVP
parade, then a flight to New York to film the Late Show with David
Letterman, all according to recent Super Bowl MVP tradition. There will
be questions about his personal life, offers for commercials, and
there's the small matter of an expiring contract with the Ravens. Joe
soon will be a very well-paid pro athlete with a public persona.
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