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The NFL returns to New Orleans...

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My, my what a spectacular opening....A stadium full of about 70,000 mainly white upper middle to upper class folks, cheering on millionaire musicians, about to watch 86 millionaires play a game.

Wonder how the folks in the various wards down the street feel?

Oh, wait. They dont live there anymore...They CANT live there anymore.

Well, hopefully basic cable is available in Houston, San Antonio and St Louis.....

I LOVE sports..I worked it for 20 years.....Am I getting soft or realistic? How the heck do you spend all that money to repair a stadium, while 9 1/2 of every 10 homes within 10 miles of the stadium either dont exist or are uninhabitable?

Oh wait. The folks who lived there never would have gotten into the stadium in the first place...unless they could run a 4.0 40 yard dash...or they were flooded out of their homes.

and the topper. Tony Kornheiser took a "three hour" tour of the city.The only saving grace is that this is the first , and probably only time he hasnt slammed a southern city for having too many "Waffle Houses" or "budget motels".....
 
Well considering New Orleans has all of its priorities in order, it isn't a shock that this is the case.
 
I don't think Monday Night Football is really the place to analyze all the problems of New Orleans. (there are too many to mention in a three hour show anyway)

I think the network news shows could do a better job at analyzing the demographic shift of New Orleans and how that will effect the future of the city and the state of Louisiana. The reopening of the Superdome might provide an opening to do such a story.

The result of Katrina is that the city and state has fewer minorities and fewer poor people living there. People who barely scraped by in New Orleans are now scraping by elsewhere - and probably finding out for the first time that the city wasn't so great to begin with.

From the NFL's perspective, they want to keep the team in New Orleans because they think the city will be a boom town when the leaders there finally figure out what to build in all the areas where crummy homes once stood.
 
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