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BREAUX BRIDGE — He might own two Super Bowl rings, but even Kevin Faulk is a fan of Breaux Bridge’s five football standouts who were honored in a parade Sunday.
The residents of this small city lined the sidewalks downtown to cheer and catch some beads thrown by their hometown football heroes, including LSU Tigers and national championship team members Jonathan Zenon, Jessie Daniels and Kory Hebert; NFL Pepsi Rookie of the Year Domanick Davis of the Houston Texans; and Super Bowl quarterback Jake Delhomme of the Carolina Panthers.
“Next to your families and Breaux Bridge, I’m probably your next-biggest fan,” Faulk, who is from Carencro, told the men seated on a stage for a ceremony following the parade. Each man was given a key to the city from Mayor Jack Dale Delhomme, including Faulk. When it was Jake Delhomme’s turn
at the microphone, he called Faulk to the stage, introducing him to the crowd before speaking of himself.
Faulk told Delhomme, “Jake, I’d like to thank you for a great game. You had me sweatin’.”
Faulk and Delhomme faced each other in the Super Bowl on Feb. 1, with Faulk’s New England Patriots winning by three points in the last four seconds, 32-29.
If Carolina had a few more minutes in that game, the outcome might have been different, said Sonny Charpentier, Delhomme’s high school football coach at Teurlings Catholic.
“You got the key to the city, but if you got the ball one more time, you’d have gotten the key to that Cadillac,” Charpentier told Delhomme, before presenting him with a plaque on behalf of the city.
There’s still next year Delhomme told the crowd, as he gave his thanks to the community for its support.
“Hopefully in 10, 15 years from now, we can present plaques to one of these kids here, it doesn’t have to be in athletics,” Delhomme said.
As for next year, Delhomme joked, “Kevin’s a free agent. I’d welcome him to Carolina.”
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Marsha Sills
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