Posted on 09/26/2006 6:01:32 AM PDT by LS
I'm a local, and I agree with you 1000%.
Fixing the Dome, and fixating on a football team, when a city is in ruins, is like giving a winning lottery ticket to to prisoners of war. The thrill isn't changing a damned thing about their situation!
The obsession with football here is postively repulsive. It really IS all many care about! I have news for you, some of those people with destroyed houses, living in FEMA trailers, shelled out big $$ to buy season tickets!
Now how the hell does it look to the rest of the country to be asking for recovery $$ when there's enough money around to sell out the Dome ?
Yes- people need diversions, especially now, but the prevailing mentality in N.O. is that reality IS a diversion from pleasure. The Thing did little to permanently change priorities here.
But-hey! The Saints won, everything is better now! They have a fancy Domed stadium centering a destroyed and decaying city ,behind unstable levees! Pay no attention to the miles of empty neighborhoods and a city that went from deteriorating and populated, to festering and depopulated!
Focus on the fantasy-ignore the ugly reality.
That's how it is in the Twilight Zone.
It was repaired with INSURANCE MONEY! That would not have gone to neighborhoods.
Actually New Orleans ranks #2 all time behind only Cleveland in attendance per victory. We are far more loyal than fans of the Cowboys, Falcons, Bengals, etc. I suppose I'd give you the Packers but other areas have their tickets scooped up by corporations. New Orleans has far too little corporate involvement and therefore it's the people who support the team.
"The media hype is acting like the Saints fans are as loyal as the Cheeseheads or Raider-maniacs."
I don't know about the Cheeseheads or the Raider-maniacs, but through thick and thin (lots of thin), the Saints fans have been amazingly loyal and steadfast.
I'd be interested to know what average ticket prices are for this year as compared to last year. any ideas? Higher or lower?
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