Posted on 10/19/2005 3:40:41 PM PDT by LA Woman3
what's he b***hing about, he moved to Dallas Texas, he no longer a permanent resident of the state and should resign as pretend mayor. If her really cared about NOLA he would have found a home in another part of the state. He is reallly making alot of people mad, I'd like to see all major businesses relocate. Wilma should make a detour and slam right into NO (without the citizens of course)
Thank you for proving the point I was making in post #54.
au contraire, snake ... what we hate is what has been done, over decades, to a city that we love ...
I mean you would think that some of the freepers would figure out that people like me and my family in SWLA would buy season tickets. It isn't that hard to figure out. The state has supported this team even when they played like crap. I don't think any other NFL owner would have kicked their fan base when they were literally devastated by a natural disaster, no they would be out in the frontlines showing their support and doing what they could to boost morale. Benson is a low class turd. He fired the people in the organization for suggesting that they at least play a few home games in Tiger Stadium.
SA are you sure you want the likes of this scum? He will bleed you dry and then kick you when you are down. Have fun with this pos.
who'sinterested in LA Woman3 starting a LA ping list?
Yes I read that and I have read that since they were offered the use of Tiger stadium that they may not get to get out of Dodge exactly for free.
LOL! I vote for abb or Ellesu!
Yep. You know the old saying, be careful what you wish for, you just may get it. San Antonio has no idea what is about to hit them.
http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-20/1129702994198130.xml
FROM BAD TO WORSE 'Faith' misplaced by Saints owner
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Peter Finney
If you listen to Tom "The Godfather" Benson, the Saints belong in San Antonio. It's strictly business.
Benson did not say this publicly. But that's the message the boss sent Monday when he sacked Arnold Fielkow, his top senior management official.
At a time of catastrophe, Fielkow was a voice of reason within the organization, suggesting, in chorus with NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, this was not the time for the Saints to talk about abandoning a city in crisis.
Obviously, the boss is of a different mindset.
It reminded me of the movie, the scene in which Michael Corleone, whose jaw had been broken by a corrupt cop, telling his older brother that emotions had nothing to do with him volunteering to whack the corrupt police chief, and the head of another mob family, for trying to do away with their dad.
"It's strictly business," Michael told Sonny.
There is one major difference.
The mob had a far better sense of timing than the owner of the Saints.
You got some idea of this, in the month before Katrina struck, when Benson's longtime attorney, Stanley Rosenberg, went public with the idea Benson would look favorably on relocating his franchise in the shadow of the Alamo.
Timing?
Well, this bulletin came just as the Saints were trying to sell season tickets, trying to lift its total beyond 35,000, using as their clarion call, you gotta have "Faith."
Now we have the whacking of Fielkow, a voice in favor of New Orleans that had to be silenced, or removed, coming at a time the franchise is trying to sell tickets for an Oct. 30 game at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, one that matches Jim Haslett's football team against Nick Saban's Miami Dolphins.
What kind of marketing message does this send?
What kind of message to Tagliabue, who had to pressure Benson to play four "home" games in Louisiana, at Tiger Stadium, within a decent reach of a loyal fan base?
One thing is perfectly clear.
The commissioner is the only one who can "save" the New Orleans Saints.
The question: What can Tagliabue do?
Can he convince the other owners the Saints are worth saving?
If he can, can he come up with some league-wide plan to aid the Saints short-term, until a stadium issue is settled, one way or another?
Because the Saints have fallen into Tagliabue's lap at a time he desperately wants to put a franchise in Los Angeles, do the Saints fit into the equation?
If he cannot stop Benson from moving the team to San Antonio, and wants to retain the league's most popular Super Bowl site, would he push for two expansion teams, one in large-market Los Angeles to be joined by another in small-market New Orleans, lifting the NFL to an even-number 34?
A critical issue: Sometime next month the status of the Superdome as a football facility is expected to be determined.
The most positive spin is it could be "restored" for the 2007 season.
If this is the case, would this strengthen Tagliabue's hand in coming to a meeting of minds, money-wise, with Tom Benson?
Well aware of the "economic" problems involved, the commissioner, it seems, would like the Saints to use Tiger Stadium as their 2006 "home."
Is this possible?
Tagliabue is scheduled to be in Baton Rouge for Saban's homecoming, to explore just such a possibility.
One thing we do know. Unless I'm getting mixed signals, Benson's NFL franchise apparently has no intention in being part of the monumental challenge of building a new New Orleans.
He made that clear Monday. In getting rid of Fielkow, Benson jettisoned a top executive who served him well for six years, who helped achieve sellouts for an under-achieving ball club, who was the point-man in engineering a 10-year, $186 million state subsidy, one that placed the Saints inside the top 25 percent of the league's net-income moneymakers.
The boss' pink-slip message to his executive vice-president, to quote Michael Corleone: "It's strictly business."
A Benson Boogie it was not.
Call it a Jazz Funeral.
I can't imagine anyone looking any smaller as a person right now than Tom Benson. What an evil, small man.
Ray, and his good ole' boys are idiots and they have been handed a load of crap from a natural disaster. God just pissed in his Post Toasties, and he can't handle it!
If tyhe Saints get any worse they are going to wear plastic bags with rubber bands around the neck.
I'm old enough to actually attended some of those games in Milwaukee County Stadium....I'm a Marquette University alum.
:)
... and, if they were still operating their flagship restaurant on Broad Street, it was in such a dangerous neighborhood that they are probably glad for an excuse to get out of Dodge ... er, New Orleans ...
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