Tributes To Buddy Diliberto
In 2007, New Orleans composer Jep Epstein wrote and recorded a song titled Heaven's 'Bout To Make The News. The song referenced a promise Buddy D made to his radio listeners that if the New Orleans Saints ever played in the Super Bowl, he would put on a dress and parade down Bourbon Street. The song gained a wider audience among Saint's fans in 2009, which marked the team's best start in a season in its franchise history. His successor at WWL, former Saints quarterback Bobby Hebert, promised to fulfill Buddy D's vow.
January 25, 2010, the New Orleans Times-Picayune with his family's blessing ran an altered photograph of Buddy D in a dress to celebrate the New Orleans Saints first NFC Championship and subsequent trip to the Super Bowl.
On Sunday, January 31, 2010, Buddy D was honored with a parade of tens of thousands of men in dresses led by Bobby Hebert from the Superdome to the French Quarter ending on Bourbon Street to celebrate the Saints first trip to the Super Bowl. Over 87,000 people were in attendance.
In reference to his Super Bowl promise, a picture of Buddy D. wearing a dress was posted in an edition of the Times Picayune, shortly after the Saint's Super Bowl victory.
Other tributes include but are not limited to: clothing, webcasts, websites, music, paintings, posters, and artwork.
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