Originally posted by redleg2/9:
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drill sgt
NEW ORLEANS SAINTS / GREEN BAY PACKERS.... Saints are in my back yard and the way they brought the city (NEW ORLEANS) back to some normalcy after HURICANE KATRINA devastated the city as well as the state and the GULF COAST of LOUISANA and MISSISSIPPI….
GWbiker
It was Mercedes Benz who dumped a ton of money on New Orleans, with most of that cash, $60 mil, going to the Saints.
Also, donations from around the world got N.O. back on its feet
GWbiker, not being from here, you completely missed drill sgt’s point.
New Orleans was not flooded for a couple of days – it was flooded for a month.
If you had driven throughout the city, many areas were dead.
I was raised in New Orleans and Metairie and have lived across the lake since 1985.
We evacuated to my son’s home in Frisco, TX. It was three weeks after Katrina before we could return home, and we are forty miles north of the center of New Orleans.
The city was emotionally dead. Money to rebuild was pouring in from everywhere, but the heart was dying.
Tom Benson could have moved the Saint to San Antonio, instead he hired Payton and signed Brees (who said one reason he signed was after seeing the devastation, he and his wife wanted to be part of the rebuilding).
The Saints beat the Falcons the first game back in the dome and it was a great emotional uplift for the city. It took the mind away from the destruction for a few hours. What the Saints gave the city held a different value than donated money.
The people of New Orleans own the Saints, just in a different manner than Green Bay.
Geaux Tigers.
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