Some call it The Crescent City, some call it The Big Easy, and some call it N'awlins. Usually, this is a dead giveaway that these people are not from New Orleans as most New Orleanians simply call it by it's name, or NOLA for short.
Other nicknames are "The City that Care Forgot" referring to the laid back attitude of the city, "Hollywood South" since so many movies are filmed in the city, and "The Northernmost Carribean City" since some say its culture is very similar to that of carribean islands. It's all explained on Wikipedia.
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The New Orleans Saints.
The nickname of the Louisiana State football team is the Tigers. The nickname was first coined in 1896 after an undefeated football season.
Bobby Hebert (1985-1992)
Lake Ponchartrain . The Big Easy is a nickname for New Orleans .
they were from new Orleans which is known as the jazz capital
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Bobby Hebert, who played with the Saints from 1985-1992.
Dixie and Dixieland are nicknames for the South. They were originally nicknames for New Orleans and surrounding areas, but eventually became a nickname for the whole South.
Andrew Jackson, who commanded the American forces in the Battle of New Orleans, the concluding battle of the War of 1812. In fact, the war was officially over when the battle was fought, but news of the armistice had not yet reached the combatants. The Battle of New Orleans was commemorated by a song of that name by Johnny Horton.
Andrew Jackson, president of the USA, and the American general who won the Battle of New Orleans during the War of 1812.