New Orleans Saints
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- TJSampson
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- dancooper
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» TJSampson - Re: Home Field?
In response to Home Field? posted by Tom:That is still being determined. San Antonio was being discussed but has not been confirmed. San Antonio is now taking on refugees and may not be available any longer.
The NFL will move the site of the Saints' first home game, which had been scheduled for the Louisiana Superdome on September 18 against the New York Giants, to Giants Stadium on that same weekend. Their second home game is scheduled for October 2, by then I’m sure the Saints will have a temporary home for the rest of the season.
The important thing to consider is that much of the Gulf Coast area is focused on the recovery and re-building of the disaster areas. Most all major sports complexes in the South are being used for that effort. The Saints may end up playing in some very cold stadiums this season, something they are not used to.
-- posted by TJSampson
» dancooper - Finding a home
I'm not so sure the Saints will have found a home to play in--even a temporary one--by their second scheduled home event. There are thousands of people without any kind of home at all, and they may be in stadiums and University sports complexes for quite a while. I think this season will have some really big problems getting started. The problems are bigger than the apparent solutions that are currently on the table. Finding a home in which to play football may not carry enough weight to make much difference any time soon, when so many people are trying to find a place just to put up a cot to sleep on. I am just guessing that it may be a month or even two months before any indoor stadiums are available for football. So, you are right in assuming that the Saints are likely to have a lot worse weather conditions than they are used to this year. In fact, I half expecting Tagliabue to suspend the opening of the season for at least a week. Guess that's not gonna happen.Dan Cooper
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-- posted by dancooper
» feistyfemale56 - Having a heart
In a related vein, I read where Joe Horn, the showoff guy who pulled a cell phone out of the padding of a goalpost once when he made a touchdown and was fined for his display, made another sort of display today, and this one showed a humanitarian side of Horn.He went to the Astrodome to visit the people of New Orleans. He didn't have to do it; no one else on his team, or any other team did it, but Joe Horn did. According to the news account I read, he spent three hours there, interacting with young and old alike, holding babies, playing games with kids, talking to adults. He signed autographs. And he came away with a renewed vigor to play football.
Horn says he can play now because that's what the people in the Astrodome want him and the team to do--play football. The team is an extension of the people and their hope, just as sports teams generally are--only in this situation, it goes far beyond bragging rights on the football field alone.
My hat is tipped to Joe Horn.
-- posted by feistyfemale56
» dancooper - Re: Having a heart
In response to Having a heart posted by feistyfemale56:"My hat is tipped to Joe Horn."
Mine is too. Thanks very much for mentioning this, Deb.
Dan
-- posted by dancooper
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