7,000 tickets remain for bills game. oct. 2

[King Manu]

KB Home, Saints team up to treat Katrina victims and relief workers

W. Scott Bailey

New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson says his NFL team is one of the few things many Louisianans have left to cheer about after Hurricane Katrina leveled parts of the Gulf Coast.

Now Benson has joined forces with the San Antonio division of KB Homes so that some 8,000 Katrina evacuees, volunteers and support workers can attend the Saints' Oct. 2 game in the Alamodome -- the first-ever regular season NFL game in San Antonio's history.

http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/s...26/daily17.html

[King Manu]

for people that havent bought tickets. go out and buy tickets to support the saints and as well as proving to the nfl we can have an nfl team.

[blaze89]

Well, are there 14,000 or 7,000 tickets on sale?

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Mayor: Clock Ticking on Filling Dome
LAST UPDATE: 9/28/2005 9:10:22 AM
Posted By: Jim Forsyth
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Mayor Hardberger says now is the time for San Antonio to step up to the plate, and buy the last of the roughly 14,000 tickets still available for Sunday's Saints-Bills game at the Alamodome.

"I want the outside community to know that when San Antonio sets its mind to do something, it does it," Hardberger told 1200 WOAI's Bud Little.

The clock is ticking for the last of the tickets to be sold. In order for the NFL mandated local TV blackout on the game to be lifted, the 65,000 seat Alamodome has to be completely sold out by Noon on Thursday.

"I'd like to see these seats filled, just to show that San Antonio always does what it expected of them," Hardberger said.

But some San Antonians are responding to NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue's demeaning and insulting comments about San Antonio last week by refusing to buy tickets. Others are staying away because both the Saints and the Bills are an unimpressive 1-2.

KB Home and Saints owner Tom Benson said today that they will each donate 4,000 tickets to Sunday's game to Hurricane Katrina evacuees living in San Antonio and Austin, as well as volunteers and support workers who have helped them.

"If just for a few hours, we hope Saints football can give the people of the Gulf South Region something to rally around," Saints VP Arnold Fielkow said.

He said the Saints and KB Home also want to express their appreciation to those Texans who have stepped up and helped New Orleans evacuees during the past month.