I refused to watch one second of that game. I am totally appalled that a penny of my tax dollars was spent on the Superdome while 200,000 homes in New Orleans are still without electricity and 100,000 are still living in FEMA trailers. All the resources and labor that went into fixing up a stupid football stadium and not homes, shops, and schools! It makes me sick, sick, sick!!!!!
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.