Legendary East Harlem red sauce eatery Rao’s returned to the Super Bowl with a series of pop-up dinners in New Orleans.

“He wasn’t going to let it ruin anything,” former Giants center Shaun O’Hara, one of Manning’s best friends, told Newsday of the remarkably joyous gathering. “He still felt the love from friends and family, teammates and everybody. “You have to just kind of roll with it,” O’Hara added. Laissez les bons temps rouler, in true New Orleans fashion.