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They would be dumb to not play in the Alamodome. As Coach Hasslet told the Saints players after tonight's pre-season game, they will fly to SA and he is giving them the weekend off to find homes and schools for their kids.
Saints eyeing Baton Rouge for home schedule
ESPN.com news services
NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue says it's unlikely the New Orleans Saints will play in New Orleans this season after the devastation Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath inflicted on the city, but the team told ESPN that keeping games in Louisiana is a priority.
"At this point you have to proceed on the assumption … that they may be unable to play in New Orleans at all for the entire season," Tagliabue said Thursday in an interview with CNBC.
"If things evolve in a positive way, then that would be something that we could adjust to. But our assumption is that for planning purposes, we should assume it will be difficult if not impossible to play in New Orleans at all this year."
The Saints will move into a hotel in San Antonio, Texas, this weekend and practice in San Antonio in preparation for their regular-season opener at Carolina Sept. 11. They have spent this week in San Jose, Calif., and played their final exhibition Thursday night in Oakland.
But it still hasn't been decided where they will play their regular-season opener Sept. 18 against the New York Giants or play the rest of their games.
Saints general manager Mickey Loomis on Thursday told ESPN's Colleen Dominguez the team would prefer to play this season's home schedule in Louisiana and the logical choice would be LSU's Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge. Loomis expects a decision to be reached in a matter of days.
The New Jersey Sports & Exposition Authority, which runs Giants Stadium, has offered to host the upcoming Giants-Saints game in New Jersey. It would likely be played Monday, Sept. 19 because the Jets will play Miami that Sunday at Giants Stadium.
Tagliabue said moving the game to New Jersey was one possibility.
He also said games could be played at another NFL stadium or at a non-NFL stadium. He didn't name any specifically, but the Alamodome in San Antonio seats 65,000 for football, about the same as the Saints' regular home at the Superdome in New Orleans, which was heavily damaged by Katrina.
Tagliabue, who announced on Wednesday that the NFL was donating $1 million to the recovery effort, added that the emphasis should be the total recovery of the region hit by the hurricane. So did Gene Upshaw, the executive director of the NFL Players Association in a statement released on Thursday, although Upshaw did not immediately say what form the union's help would take.
"We want to really emphasize above all that sport is a small part of life," Tagliabue said. "We want to use are visibility and the respect we have with the public and the respect our teams have to support the national recovery program. That's the big thing."
They would be dumb to not play in the Alamodome. As Coach Hasslet told the Saints players after tonight's pre-season game, they will fly to SA and he is giving them the weekend off to find homes and schools for their kids.
This is a pretty awesome pic of the eye of Katrina from a Steve Gregory email that Manny forwarded.
K 3 --The eye of the storm as seen by the Hurricane Hunters Notice the 'bowl like' shape of the eye, with the actual eye 'core' looking like a
drainage hole in a sink. This image vividly displays how the storm on IR
imagery gave the appearance of a 50NM wide eye, while the RECON
reported the eye was 22NM across.
Ya know after watching CNN and Fox reporting whats going at the convention center.
4 days, without anything?
the cops are held up in their own police station??
, we helped out the freakin asians quicker than this.
Mr. Bush, this is beyond unexcusable.
If this is what OUR Billions of tax dollars has gone to, with FEMA and Homeland Security.
Then IMO, he has failed us as a president.
Papa Johns of Houston donated 25 Grand AND
took all 12 hundred employees out to the Astrodome and cooked pizzas for them.
Big big big ups to Papa Johns.
Nobody knew about the people at the Convention Center until today.
That's what they're saying anyway.
Aaron in Brown
Asks this woman and her daughter
"How long do you expect to stay at the dome?"
Dude, they just lost everything.
WTF KIND OF QUESTION IS THAT?!?!?!?!
Why do they have to wait for congress to get back before they can do anything? They keep saying that they called congress back early and need to wait til over the weekend when they can vote for the disaster relief money. WTF?! I seriously hope that help isn't being held back because of money.
That is beyond, BEYOND unacceptable.Nobody knew about the people at the Convention Center until today.
Wouldn't suprise me in the least....I seriously hope that help isn't being held back because of money.
Houston rules.
TEXAS in rules.
Look at the hospitality Houston, SA, Dallas has shown.
New meaning to the words "Damn proud to be a in Texan"
BTW, from what Ive heard GOV Perry has handled everything pretty well so far.
THe hanlders in SA and Hou from what Im hearing on the cable news networks deserve big ups for their good stuff.
Not too keep making posts,
me and my family have an old, OPERATABLE generator, that works great.
365 KW Generator Cat powered.
If anyone knows of any contacts me and my family can make to donate this generator, that would be great.
FYI CNN
Phil Hardberger on right now
"City council decided, We will write checks to take care of these people right now. We will get reimbursed, but we dont care right now"
AArong brown just made up for it
"One of my favorite towns, and the genrosity of your town is not suprising, and its great to hear Mr Hardberger"
BTW,
Acadiana, will they do the catering??
BTW, I wouldn't be suprised if our own Spurs are out there helping out.
After that interview, the pride of my state, my town, makes me want to cry...
BTW,
why are we the only ones doing anything??
ooooo??
Florida? Oklahoma?
Tennesse???
o? Mcfly?? You nimrods there?!?!
I'm sure other states are doing stuff...but we are the closest, and probably the most able to help out...
The highway's leading east where mostly wiped out or covered in debris.
Just likeI'm sure other states are doing stuff
"Im sure the GOVT is helping the best they can"
And they find out today, "Oh, there is a whole convention center of people, DURRRRRR WE DIDNT KNOW IT WAS THER DURRRRRRRRRRRR"
ing incompetence is ascanine.
The in Asians and Iraqis get treated better than this.
Just because YOU aren't hearing about it, doesn't mean it's not happening. You do realize that people couldn't go east out of N.O.? Katrina hit Florida too if you don't remember. Get off your high horse man.
A C130 is due to land at Kelly in a few minutes full of fugies.
Im on a high horse cause Im expecting things should be operating better???
Ok.....
These places were declared disaster areas the day BEFORE the storm hit.
Everything taking this long?? Is beyond unacceptable.
I dont give a if saying that puts me on a high horse.
Ok, we get the point. Move on.
GOod to see.
The TV stations havent broadcasted that stuff I apologize.
Oh Im sorry boss.....Move on.
WTF? I've eaten the rations before that friends have brought me back, and they're in a bag that uses a chemical reaction or something to heat the food, which comes out very hot... so much so, you have to realistically wait a couple of minutes before putting it into your mouth unless you're a nut.
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