Friedensreich Hundertwasser was tasked with planning the opening night for the new Orleans Specters season because for some reason this sort of shit gets divided up between the players. It's not like the players have anything else they should be doing on the run up to the season or anything important like that.
He wanted to keep the opening day party in the theme of the new Orleans Specters so what did he do? That's right, he bought thousands of mardis gras beads, a ridiculous amount of alcohol and planned a mardis gras style parade around the stadium ahead of the first game. A lot of the parade would have a supernatural theme to go alongside the specters branding with lots of purple ghouls and ghosts scaring the shit out of people. Thousands of vats of Gumbo and other new Orleans dishes were cooked up to feed the many onlookers and lots of music was put on.