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\u201cThe Saints Are Coming\u201d returned to the Caesars Superdome on Saturday in a big way. Very<\/em> big.<\/p>\n On Sept. 25, 2006, U2 and Green Day performed \u201cThe Saints Are Coming\u201d at the \u201cDomecoming,\u201d the fabled first Saints game in the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina. That was the game in which Steve Gleason earned his statue outside the Dome by blocking an Atlanta Falcons punt.<\/p>\n Nearly 20 years later, with Gleason watching from his wheelchair, Harry Connick Jr. and the thousand musicians of Rockin\u20191000<\/a> opened their Dome concert with a mass \u201cThe Saints Are Coming.\u201d Rockin\u20191000 thereby saluted the city and stadium that hosted the global collective\u2019s first-ever American performance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A decade ago, Italian marine geologist Fabio Zaffagnini gathered a thousand amateur musicians to perform the Foo Fighters\u2019 \u201cLearn To Fly\u201d in the hopes of persuading the band to perform in his tiny hometown. Footage went viral, the Foo Fighters came to Zaffagnini\u2019s hometown, and a global brand was born.<\/p>\n